Is Evangelicalism a movement in crisis?

Has the Evangelical movement increasingly pushed people out and excluded them rather than created a bigger camp?

These are just some of the topics we're going to explore today.

Discuss a recent book called The Other Evangelicals by Isaac Sharp.

I'm Sean McDowell, your host.

I'm Scott Ray, your co-host.

This is Think Bivocally, a podcast from Taub School of Theology, Biola University.

Scott, maybe walk through what is the big picture and idea of this big book, which by the way is a dissertation,

so it's a research-based book on the modern evangelical movement,

but he has a unique take

and you could argue a unique critique. What is it?

Yeah, let me just say first, though it is a dissertation length and detailed work, it reads really well it does not read like a

dissertation agreed.

Isaac Sharp The author is a really good writer and he portrays the history I think in a

very compelling and easy to grasp way.

And you know this is you know this is the advantage of me being a little bit older than you are

because I actually you know a lot of what he described I live

through okay because I went to college in the early 70s and sort of came of age in my faith in the you know late 60s and throughout the 70s and so a lot, you know, we followed a lot of the stuff.

I was a seminary student in the late 70s.

Okay.

And sort of started out, you know, in my professional life in the late 70s, early 80s.

So a lot of this stuff, you know, it was very familiar to me.

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