Is Evangelicalism Enough? – Moving Beyond the Melting Pot of Evangelical Minimalism
In his 1984 memoir Evangelical is Not Enough, Gordon College professor Thomas Howard argued that contemporary evangelicalism lacked the coherence to cultivate and sustain healthy growth in Christian discipleship. In response, Howard ended up converting to Roman Catholicism. While I am opposed to Howard’s solution, I do find myself in agreement with his diagnosis: evangelical is not enough. Evangelicalism, on its own, is not secure enough to protect the Church from the errors that continually arise—not just from outside of evangelicalism—but from within its very gates. Evangelicalism is not precise enough to provide us with a theological framework for rightly interpreting Scripture. Evangelicalism is...