Given all the talk in recent years about the uncertainty of what it even means to be evangelical, see if you can guess the author of the quote and when it was made:
The religious terrain is full of the graves of good words which have died from lack of care…. and these good words are still dying all around us. There is that good word “Evangelical.” It is certainly moribund, if not already dead. Nobody any longer seems to know what it means.
I’ll give one hint, it wasn’t made recently or in recent years. I just find it interesting given, as I noted, the recent talk about the lack of meaning in evangelical. What do you think?
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Fr Robert guessed it as I think Henry did too – the quote is from B.B. Warfield from 1919 and is quoted in Fred Sander’s recent book on the Trinity (The Deep Things of God, Crossway, 2010). So, even at the turn of the century when the term was coined, no one really knew what it was to be evangelical – so it is not a new debate.
συνεσταύρωμαι: living the crucified life 
Great quote! I am going to make a guess here, but almost sounds like George MacDonald? If not, it could have been!
I don’t know who the author is, but the sentiment is exactly right. It has become impossible to label ourselves as Evangelical as it means something different to different folk.
Nowadays the term “Evangelical” even brings with it all sorts of political assumptions…..
I, along with many others are running away as quickly as possible from the label of Evangelical….
I guessed Muggeridge, though without good reason. Then I looked it up on Google and was quite surprised. I won’t give the result so others can guess.
After sleep and some thought, I really am going to make another wider guess, but I will say it has to be a knowledgeable “Calvinist”? That word “moribund”! So it sounds Puritan like?
you are in the right direction. 😉
More guesses..lol Van Til, or perhaps a B.B. Warfield? Maybe Geerhardus Vos?
Brian,
I came across the author, I was close. Again great quote! “Evangelical” simply MUST be centered in the Gospel itself! Note again the text of 2 Cor.4:6, GOD is the creator, both the literal creation, and re-creation in our hearts: Jesus Christ! Without him, there is no faith or sight!
absolutely! and AMEN!