Abstract
Editor(s): Mark Labberton. Still Evangelical? Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, January 2018. ISBN: 9780830845378
Questions concerning the shape of evangelical identity have become decidedly contentious in light of the 2016 US presidential election in which, according to the Pew Research Center, 81% of white evangelical voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump. Not only was this voting bloc significant to the outcome of the election, but it also has led many evangelicals to conclude that the movement is in crisis. Still Evangelical?: Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning is a collection of eleven essays compiled and edited by Mark Labberton containing reflections and perspectives from a diversity of contributors on what it means to be evangelical, given the social and political commitments with which the movement has largely come to be associated. Such reflection is particularly timely given that the results of the election have, as Labberton remarks in his introduction, left many “wondering whether they want to be in or out of the evangelical tribe” (1).
Questions concerning the shape of evangelical identity have become decidedly contentious in light of the 2016 US presidential election in which, according to the Pew Research Center, 81% of white evangelical voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump. Not only was this voting bloc significant to the outcome of the election, but it also has led many evangelicals to conclude that the movement is in crisis. Still Evangelical?: Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning is a collection of eleven essays compiled and edited by Mark Labberton containing reflections and perspectives from a diversity of contributors on what it means to be evangelical, given the social and political commitments with which the movement has largely come to be associated. Such reflection is particularly timely given that the results of the election have, as Labberton remarks in his introduction, left many “wondering whether they want to be in or out of the evangelical tribe” (1).
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Mar 2019 |