Looking at the Definition of "Evangelical" With Mark Noll

I think the real problem is trying to define evangelical in any simple way. The things that David Bebbington identified, that others have used and I've used – cross, Bible, conversion, activity in the world – these all characterize broadly speaking “evangelical” people. I don't actually think “evangelicalism” exists. There are evangelical institutions, evangelical movements, evangelical people, evangelical emphases. But you say, what's the institutional or organizational continuity? And there just isn't any. So does the word mean anything? If when people hear “evangelical” they think of something political first, then the serious meaning of the word is gone.