Matthew Avery Sutton’s New Definition of “Evangelicalism”
From theology to sociology to politics
In my lifetime the study and definition of evangelicalism became a cottage industry for historians. Was it a new form of the fundamentalism of the first half of the 20th Century? Was a decisive break from fundamentalism, as many understood the clarion call of C.F.H. Henry’s famous The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism? Was it then the de-polit…