When evangelicals make a mess, who cleans it up?
Many today are discarding the evangelical label, even if they still hold to the historic tenets of evangelicalism. But evangelicalism is a space, not just a brand, and living in that space is complicated.
As a lifelong evangelical who happens to be a biracial Asian/White millennial, Dan Stringer has felt both included and alienated by the evangelical community and has wrestled with whether to stay or go. He sits as an uneasy evangelical insider with ties to many of evangelicalism's historic organizations and institutions. Neither ‘everything's fine’ nor ‘burn it all down, ‘ Stringer offers a thoughtful appreciation of evangelicalism's history, identity, and strengths, but also lament for its blind spots, toxic brokenness, and complicity with injustice. From this complicated space, we can move forward with informed vision rather than resignation and with hope for our future together.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword by Richard Mouw
Introduction: When Evangelicalism Is Your Mother
1 Struggling with Evangelicalism
Part I: Awareness
2 Defining Evangelicalism: Understanding Our History
3 Faith Stream Awareness: Knowing Your Location
Part II: Appreciation
4 Why Appreciation Matters
5 Strengthening Our Strengths
Part III: Repentance
6 Evil Cloaked in Spiritual Language
7 Learning to Repent Communally
Part IV: Renewal
8 Is Evangelicalism Worth Renewing?
9 Better Than We Found It
Epilogue: Hope for Your Struggle
Acknowledgements
Discussion Questions
Notes
Circa l’autore
Richard J. Mouw (Ph D, University of Chicago) now serves as professor of faith and public life after twenty years as president of Fuller Theological Seminary. He has written over twenty books on topics of social ethics, philosophy of culture and interfaith dialogue, including Uncommon Decency, The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship, Praying at Burger King, The God Who Commands, Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport, The Smell of Sawdust and Talking with Mormons: An Invitation to Evangelicals.A leader in interfaith theological conversations, particularly with Mormons and Jewish groups, Mouw served for six years as co-chair of the official Reformed-Catholic Dialogue and as president of the Association of Theological Schools. For seventeen years he was a professor of philosophy at Calvin College and in 2007, Princeton Theological Seminary awarded him the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life.
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