The young, restless, reformed movement of the late 2000s and 2010s was self-consciously an attempt to reclaim the evangelical center. This was something both Tim Keller and D. A. Carson were clear on from the earliest days of the Gospel Coalition.
The reason they had the opportunity to do this, however, is interesting and complicates the popular understanding of the young reformed movement of that era. Prior to the young reformed of the 2000s, there had been older figures in the evangelical world who popularized a kind of pop Calvinism amongst a pocket of American evangelicals. Some of these figures, like R. C. Sproul and J. I. Packer were actually reformed in their theology.
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