What Does It Mean to Be an Evangelical? With Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones

Life and Books and Everything

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

A few months ago, a prominent American scholar, Matthew Avery Sutton, published an article arguing there is no “through line” from Christians of the past to today’s post-WWII evangelicals. In order to assess this argument, Kevin invited two scholars of the evangelical movement to join him: Andrew Atherstone from Oxford in England and David Ceri Jones from the University of Aberystwyth in Wales. Together, they explore where the term evangelical comes from, whether the thing we call “evangelicalism” is a recent invention, why people call themselves “evangelical,” the difference between Stott and Lloyd-Jones, the difference between evangelicalism in America, in England, and in Wales, and whether the word “evangelical” is worth retaining. Plus, you’ll hear Kevin’s fantastic idea for Andrew to adopt the slogan “Make Oxford Great Again.”

Chapters:

0:00 intro & Sponsors

4:00 Evangelical Identity

17:45 The Through-line to Evangelicalism

26:42 Evangelicalism Abroad

53:15 The Balancing Act

1:01:43 What is an Evangelical?

1:03:27 Until Next Time…

Books & Everything:

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Advent to Epiphany

Here We Stand

Puritan Treasures for Today

Westminster Theological Seminary Biblical Language Certificate

Redefining the History and Historiography on American Evangelicalism in the Era of the Religious Right

Making Evangelical History

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0:00.0	I want to thank our sponsors for this episode of LBE.
0:13.2	Grateful for Crossway, their partnership over many years.
0:17.5	And in particular today, I want to mention Johnny Gibson's book, O'Cum, O'Cum, Emmanuel,
0:22.6	a liturgy for daily worship from Advent to Epiphany. Johnny's professor at Westminster
0:29.2	Seminary in Philadelphia, he's also a friend, good preacher, scholar, that David is his brother,
0:36.7	those Gibson brothers do a lot of good things.
0:39.7	Johnny has come out with several of these volumes, one for, in general, one be thou my vision,
0:47.3	one for Lent, and then for Advent, this one, Okamucombe Emmanuel.
0:52.4	You can get, it's a very nicely handsomely bound set of, not really devotions,
0:59.7	but really a liturgy for the season.
1:02.3	That gives you prayers and readings and scripture.
1:05.8	So check it out, O'Cum, O'Cum, Emmanuel from Crossway.
1:10.8	And then also, desiring God, as we are still in the
1:14.4	month of October, want to mention the DG program this month celebrating the heroes of the
1:19.9	Reformation, highlighting well-known figures, and some lesser-known champions of the faith.
1:26.5	It's a 31-day journey you can read or listen to short, powerful biographies of men and women who defended the Bible and its truth.
1:34.3	Over 100,000 people have subscribed to this journey in celebration of the Reformation during the month of October.
1:41.6	Here we stand.
1:42.4	You can visit desiring god.org slash stand.
1:46.4	And while we are mentioning desiring God and thinking about John Piper,
1:51.0	I want to invite you to the Corum Deo Pastor's Workshop. John will be the keynote speaker for that
1:56.8	here at Christ Covenant February 13, 2025, just a few months away. We are limiting the seats to
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