What it Means to be an Evangelical Today – An Antipodean Perspective Part One – Mapping our Movement

Abstract

In the first part of this article the author attempts an analysis of the current state of evangelicalism, outlining the different groups that can be found within it, and charting some of its distinctive features – its character as a protest and renewal movement, its custodial and combative mentality, its striving for contextualisation, its dynamic centres, and its new heartlands in the Two-Thirds World. He identifies two challenges: the need for self-definition and the identification of boundaries, and the need to maintain ecumenism and avoid fragmentation.