The Influence of Liberalism upon Evangelicalism — ‘the Curate’s Egg’

Posted on November 7, 2009 
Filed under Opinion

Melvin Tinker“When a term is used frequently enough it can become over used and so end up being abused. We may think, for example, of the word, ‘awesome’. A mobile phone can now be described as ‘awesome’ and pretty soon everything is awesome which means nothing is so. We have a similar problem with the term ‘evangelical’. It can now mean little more than indicating that one prefers guitars to organs in public worship…”

– Church Society has just reprinted this 2007 Churchman article (PDF file) by Melvin Tinker.