The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age. By Randall J. Stephens and Karl W. Giberson. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Review by Richard Weikart “Secular intellectuals say it, I believe it, and that settles it.”  While this is not exactly Randall Stephens and Karl Giberson’s point, it is too close for comfort.  [...]

Four Views on The Spectrum of Evangelicalism. Edited by Andrew D. Naselli and Collin Hansen. Contributors: Kevin Bauder, R. Albert Mohler Jr., John G. Stackhouse Jr., Roger E. Olson. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011. Reviewed by Matthew Barrett “I have become increasingly convinced that evangelicalism holds the key to the future of Western Christianity.” These words [...]

The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. By Carl R. Trueman. Chicago: Moody, 2011. Reviewed by Fred Zaspel It’s been more than fifteen years now since Mark Noll published his successful The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind in which the (then) Wheaton professor criticized evangelicals for its intellectual obscurantism. Evangelicalism’s preoccupation with dispensationalism and six-day [...]