The Post-Evangelical
In 1995, Dave Tomlinson, Christian iconoclast, brought out his book Post-Evangelical . His theory is that Evangelicalism as a creed is tied to modernism and no longer has a place in the increasingly post-modern world in which we live. This Wikipedia article sums up the criticisms levelled at the Evangelical church by the post-evangelical movement. "Some post-evangelical criticisms of the evangelical church include but are not limited to: Individualism , pursuit of tangible success as a sign of spiritual maturity, and a consequently underdeveloped ecclesiology Politicization of Christian doctrine; "theologization" of political ideology Ethnocentric , especially Americentric , bias in theology, often in conjunction with nationalistic or exceptionalist politics General lack of positive engagement with the social and natural sciences , music , art , philosophy , news media , and other expressions of culture ...