“Popular indicators suggest that evangelicalism’s unique moral and theological inheritance has been traded for a bowlful of spiritual junk food that feeds the contemporary appetite. American culture now carries more weight than revelation on a broad range of issues from ethics to beliefs. The prevalence of adultery and divorce—even among nationally known figures—no longer startles. Consumer research and related techniques increasingly supplant Scripture’s analysis of the church’s and believers’ responsibilities…
"The old theological standards have collapsed. Theologically central beliefs—such as God’s judgment on sin, the unity and sole authority of Scripture, and salvation only through personal trust in Christ—are no longer defining…The incessant refrains of our contemporary ideology, ‘everyone is entitled to his opinion’ and ‘let’s not judge,’ fill the evangelical academy. The Augustinian insight that all truth is God’s truth…has been deconstructed to mean that any sincere religious person’s perception of truth is probably God’s truth.”
Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm, The Nature of Confession: Evangelicals & Postliberals in Conversation (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 8, via Steve Wolfgang.
Don't think it hasn't infiltrated the church—dw.
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"The old theological standards have collapsed. Theologically central beliefs—such as God’s judgment on sin, the unity and sole authority of Scripture, and salvation only through personal trust in Christ—are no longer defining…The incessant refrains of our contemporary ideology, ‘everyone is entitled to his opinion’ and ‘let’s not judge,’ fill the evangelical academy. The Augustinian insight that all truth is God’s truth…has been deconstructed to mean that any sincere religious person’s perception of truth is probably God’s truth.”
Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm, The Nature of Confession: Evangelicals & Postliberals in Conversation (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 8, via Steve Wolfgang.
Don't think it hasn't infiltrated the church—dw.
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