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The editors of Current discuss “Elite Evangelicalism”

John Fea   |  November 17, 2021

The Current editors recently got together via ZOOM to discuss the idea of “Elite Evangelicalism.” The conversation is available to Deep Water subscribers of Current.

In the course of the hour we talked about the following pieces:

Mark Galli, Substack post on “The State of Evangelical Leadership.”

Mark Galli’s Christianity Today article, “Trump Should be Removed from Office.”

Carl Trueman’s First Things essay, “The Failure of Evangelical Elites.”

Carl Trueman,’s First Things essay, “Evangelical Elites Are Out of Touch.”

Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America.

Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh, “Education for Homelessness or Homemaking?: The Christian College in a Postmodern Culture.”

James K.A. Smith’s essay, “Prospects for the Future: The Future is Catholic–The Next Scandal of the Evangelical Mind” in Todd Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher Devers, ed., The State of the Evangelical Mind.

Eric Miller, “Anti-Intellectualism and the Integration of Faith and Learning,” in Christian Scholars Review, Summer 2018.

Jay Green, “On the Evangelical Mind and Consulting the Faithful,” in Christian Scholars Review, Summer 2018.

John Fea, “What is the State of the Evangelical Mind on Christian College Campuses?” Christian Scholars Review, Summer 2018.

John Fea, “What Carl Trueman Gets Right About the American University,” Current, October 29, 2021.

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