Carl Trueman on Evangelical Doctrine

Here's a typically stimulating 'Wages of Spin' article from Carl Trueman.

'Some years ago, in the UK context, I argued in print that `theology’ as a discipline no longer exists: its is rather a collection of disciplines held together not by any internal principle but by institutional-pedagogical history. `Evangelical’ is the same: no longer are evangelicals united by basic Christian doctrine; we are united by our institutional histories. Evangelical graduate from certain seminaries, attend certain conference, watch certain TV ministries, vote for certain political parties. What we do not do is agree on whether the Nicene Creed is a faithful expression of biblical teaching, whether Christ really suffered God’s wrath in a penal substitutionary way on the cross, whether justification is by grace through faith. Sometimes we try to pretend to agreement by pointing, for example, to a common Pauline vocabulary but let’s not forget that both Pelagius and Augustine believed in salvation by grace. The common vocabulary was the initial problem, the very heart of the Pelagian crisis, not its resolution.'

Also, just to note that there is a new video entitled 'The Gospel in six minutes' by John Piper on the video bar.