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Kevin D. Young in the Taxonomy of Conflict, June 21, 2021, Introduction.

As we contemplate the melee that is the reformed evangelical world today, it is very easy for

the folks in the stands to get a little bewildered.

As the saying goes, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, and the different numbers

on the jerseys really helps.

And if ever there were a time when people should know what's going on, it is now.

The Young's helpful taxonomy.

What I would like to do now is utilize Kevin D. Young's taxonomic analysis of how evangelicals

engage with culture in order to show how the evangelical over-ten window is more like

a sliding glass door that can actually slide the length of the whole patio.

But perhaps I understated that.

It is starting to look as though we have a door that slides the length of the whole house.

Kevin's fine descriptive piece can be found here.

I actually agree with all of it with one minor exception, excerpted below.

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The loudest voices tend to be ones and fours, which make sense because they tend to see many

of these issues in the starkest terms, and often collide with each other in ways that

makes a lot of online noise.

The ones and fours can also be the most separatist, with some voices among the ones, encouraging

an exodus from white evangelical spaces, and some voices among the fours, encouraging

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