{"id":6667,"date":"2010-08-18T13:32:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/applause.html"},"modified":"2010-08-18T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:32:27","slug":"applause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/applause.html","title":{"rendered":"Applause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/REOlson-17291.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/REOlson-thumb-333x347-17291.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"347\" alt=\"REOlson.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>I give <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogereolson.com\/2010\/08\/14\/is-there-one-evangelicalism\/\">Roger Olson<\/a><\/b> an applause for an accurate sketch of the American evangelical coalition, of the influx of a fundamentalist spirit that is taking over (and rob our freedom in Christ), and of the difficulty of the middle road. What I find grieving, too, is the lack of understanding on the part of many loud voices today of the history of 20th Century evangelicalism. What was clearly fundamentalism and what was &#8220;neo-evangelicalism,&#8221; which the former decried constantly as a wash out, has blended into &#8220;evangelicalism&#8221; today with the former thinking the latter don&#8217;t belong.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Do I hear a witness?<\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Roger Olson:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\">\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px\">My heart has grieved over what has happened to the evangelical movement.&nbsp; On the one side one finds popularizers peddling a &#8220;gospel&#8221; of health and wealth through positive thinking.&nbsp; On the other side one finds fundamentalists trying to exclude as non-evangelical everyone who doesn&#8217;t think just like them.&nbsp; The middle (which I think of as&nbsp;the&nbsp;historical evangelical position of tolerance of differences of opinion within a general embrace of historic Christian orthodoxy) is hard to inhabit.&nbsp; People there get shot at from both sides.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I give Roger Olson an applause for an accurate sketch of the American evangelical coalition, of the influx of a fundamentalist spirit that is taking over (and rob our freedom in Christ), and of the difficulty of the middle road. What I find grieving, too, is the lack of understanding on the part of many&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicalism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Applause - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/applause.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Applause - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I give Roger Olson an applause for an accurate sketch of the American evangelical coalition, of the influx of a fundamentalist spirit that is taking over (and rob our freedom in Christ), and of the difficulty of the middle road. 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