Evangelicals Selling Out

I found another great interview speaking about the theme of how evangelicals are getting confused with the culture. This interview is with Os Guinness, also from the September/October 2011 issue of Modern Reformation magazine.

He talks about the two extremes of meeting the culture. He says Legalism was the former response, but today we see the other extreme. Guinness says,

The other extreme is what Berger calls "cognitive and cultural accomodation," which you can see with the liberals [he's talking about liberal Protestants, not necessarily political liberalism] beginning with Schleiermacher. They take on assumptions in the world and then adapt to those assumptions and eventually sell out to them. You can see liberal theology is the tail, and the dog is always current philosophy ahead of them. The tragedy , if you look at it like this, is that in the last generation many evangelicals have become the new liberals.

I hope you got that last sentence!