Among the "end-of-the-1970s" wrap-up articles filling the pages of periodicals a few months ago was one by Harold O. J. Brown in Christianity Today (December 21, 1979), called "The Church of the 1970s." What struck me about this piece is that, while it was about the 1970s, it was not at all about the Church. What Brown talked about instead was something called Evangelicalism.
Maybe for Brown-and for others who see things the way he does-Evangelicalism is the Church. When he speaks of Church divisions, for instance, he does ...