The Failed Vision of Methodists’ Modernist Elite

Mainline Protestantism’s drift into theological modernism in the past century, and the conservative reaction, affects the prospects for Christian faith in the 21st century.

The 1958 Thorndike Barnhart Comprehensive Dictionary defined the word evangelical as:

“Of or having to do with the Protestant churches that emphasize Christ’s atonement and salvation by faith as the most important parts of Christianity, as the Methodists and Baptists.”