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Good Faith Debates #5: Is ‘Evangelical’ a Historical, Theological, or Political Identity?

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Is There a New Definition of Evangelical?

The term evangelical was invented because of a need to contextually differentiate ourselves from fundamentalist and theological liberals in the early part of the century. Carl Henry, who you mentioned just a little bit ago, and others pioneered the term evangelical to distinguish between this new fundamentalism as we now know it today and theological liberalism. Now evangelicalism is shifting into a new meaning, not by any of our desires," he says.

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