Tom Greentree’s Reviews > Evangelicalism: A Very Short Introduction > Status Update
Tom Greentree
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The typical evangelical of the 2020s is not a “he.” She is also not white, and she is…living somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa or in a Latin American city….She rarely discusses social or political issues, but she beams when she relates how her husband’s conversion ended his alcohol abuse on wild weekends. This is your statistically typical evangelical Christian. (1)
— Jun 17, 2022 09:08PM
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Tom Greentree
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By the 2020s, roughly half the world’s evangelicals were in Africa, a quarter were in Asia, and almost another quarter lived in the Americas—leaving relatively few in Europe and Oceania. Thus, even as Christianity in general was fading in Europe, in Greater Britain, and in North America, evangelicalism was burgeoning almost everywhere else—even in parts of the Islamic corridor… (84)
— Jun 22, 2022 03:48PM
Tom Greentree
is 40% done
It is commitment to Trinitarian theology and to the authority of the Bible in doctrine, piety, and practice that marks off evangelicals from liberals. And it is commitment to conversionism and mission, and the populism and pragmatism that those commitments entail, that marks off evangelicals from conservatives—whether Amish farmers, Anglican “prayer book” devotees, or rigorously traditional Lutherans (46).
— Jun 19, 2022 09:36AM
