tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post4375718420649914549..comments2023-12-15T21:49:46.651+01:00Comments on Pluralist Speaks: Something EvangelicalPluralist (Adrian Worsfold)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-6616875569105627132008-12-14T17:50:00.000+01:002008-12-14T17:50:00.000+01:00That is a most perceptive and interesting comment....That is a most perceptive and interesting comment.<BR/><BR/>I think slightly differently that the controversy of the sort we see is evidence of two patterns: one is decline, and conflict over reduced resources of an estate, and secondly that there is life left in the beast.<BR/><BR/>It can come about that decline leads to nothing more to be said, after which the lights go out, but until then various outcomes remain possible.<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that the intellectual position of Fulcrum has little more than its relationship to the Conservative Evangelicals, and their intellectual position is bankrupt. It's all an internal argument. I don't relate to any of it.Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-4932363587851673442008-12-14T10:46:00.000+01:002008-12-14T10:46:00.000+01:00Evangelicalism in the English setting has to be se...Evangelicalism in the English setting has to be seen (I would submit) in the light of two historical developments.<BR/>The First is the Reformation where the New Testament was rediscovered and matched against current Church doctrine and practice. <BR/><BR/>The second was the Evangelical Awakening led by Whitfield and the Wesleys which brought to the fore<BR/>the whole business of taking the Gospel the every sort and condition of people.<BR/><BR/>From the first source we get the tradition of being willing to contend for the truth against error. From the second source we get the tradition of conducting one's life and one's church life for the spread of the Gospel.<BR/><BR/>There is always an slightly uneasy peace between the dynamics of the two historically in-built emphases and there is always the temptation when times are harder for the spread of the Gospel to take refuge in conducting controversy.<BR/><BR/>I do not think it is a co-incidence that controversy has formed a biggest part of the public activities of the tradition in the last twenty years or so. The fact is that the fields no longer appear to be so white to harvest now than then.<BR/><BR/>The truth or otherwise behind that perception is, however, another matter.Gavin Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14257108403771100234noreply@blogger.com