Sarah-Jane Britton
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John G. Stackhouse Jr.:
What do you mean by "An Evangelical Guide" when describing your book "Woke"? I'm a Christian but I wouldn't identify as an Evangelical, but I suppose more significantly, I'm not sure if I want to.
John G. Stackhouse Jr.
Thanks for asking. I share your ambivalence about the term "evangelical," since it is linked with positions, parties, and people from whom I would keep some distance.
For me, "evangelical" means not just "of the good news" (its literal etymology). Historians use the term "evangelicalism" for the mainstream of vital, orthodox Protestantism that flows out of Puritanism in Britain and Pietism in Europe into a variety of eighteenth-century movements, such as the Great Awakening in the American colonies and the Methodist revival in Britain.
This book surveys what is now a form of religion thriving all over the globe, characterized by the six key qualities I set out in the book: Trinitarian, Biblicist, conversionist, missional, populist, and pragmatic. I'm willing to be identified with such a worldwide communion, even if some family members still strike me as . . . insufficiently sanctified! (I daresay many would say the same of me—and correctly.)
For me, "evangelical" means not just "of the good news" (its literal etymology). Historians use the term "evangelicalism" for the mainstream of vital, orthodox Protestantism that flows out of Puritanism in Britain and Pietism in Europe into a variety of eighteenth-century movements, such as the Great Awakening in the American colonies and the Methodist revival in Britain.
This book surveys what is now a form of religion thriving all over the globe, characterized by the six key qualities I set out in the book: Trinitarian, Biblicist, conversionist, missional, populist, and pragmatic. I'm willing to be identified with such a worldwide communion, even if some family members still strike me as . . . insufficiently sanctified! (I daresay many would say the same of me—and correctly.)
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Maria Echevarria
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John G. Stackhouse Jr.:
Hi John, In the book you have mention that there are times that even when you believe in a non-heriarchical way (equality) you are unable to leave you current situation (stay in a church that believes differently) because you know you are called in that place. Even more, if you are part of the leadership of that Church and are expected to teach and support the hierarchy (patriarchy), How have you handled this?
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