Timothy George

All ecclesiastical revolutions eventually run out of steam. New concerns emerge, and different leaders come to the fore. It is too early to tell whether the election of Frank Page as president of the Southern Baptist Convention signals such a change, but there are signs that a historic shift may be . . . . Continue Reading »

The resurgence of evangelicalism in American religious life can be gauged by various measures, one of which is the attention lavished on it by the secular media. In some ways, evangelicals came out of the prayer closet in 1976, dubbed by Newsweek on its cover, “The Year of the . . . . Continue Reading »

The “integration of faith and learning” makes for a nice mantra. You can find it in attractive brochures from innumerable Christian colleges, assuring prospective students”or, at least, their parents”that each of these schools has some vague connection to a religious . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a medium-sized theological brouhaha stirring within the evangelical academy these days, and, unlike some of the other intra-evangelical debates of recent years, this one is about something really important: God. In 1994 five evangelical scholars, led by Canadian Baptist theologian Clark . . . . Continue Reading »

This book is at once a protest and a lamentation against what might be called the tradition of traditionless evangelicalism. D. H. Williams is an ordained Baptist minister who teaches patristics and historical theology at a Roman Catholic school, Loyola University of Chicago. His earlier writings, . . . . Continue Reading »

Timothy George Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 93 (May 1999): 17-24. During the past twenty years America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, has undergone a major upheaval and reorientation, a time of turmoil and schism known to many of its participants simply . . . . Continue Reading »