On Being Post-Evangelical: Moving Beyond the Anger of “Post-ness”

This article is the fourth and final installment of my series on evangelicalism. The central question is whether there is faith after evangelicalism and a theology to support it. Obviously, there is; there are post-evangelicals. If understood purely temporally, there are a lot of people who once were evangelical but are now “post,” i.e. “after.” They’re done. It is also obvious that there are plenty of post-evangelical theologians when we understand the “post” in post-evangelical temporally. I happily call myself a post-evangelical theologian in that sense. I once was able to dig the gig and then I couldn’t and then I didn’t. I became “post.”

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But I’m interested in more than that. I wonder if there is more than just saying that we’re “post” and “against.” Indeed, those readers who have read the previous installments in this series may wonder if I have anything positive to say when I talk theology. Are post-evangelical theologians able to formulate there own positive statement of what theology ought to be? Are they willing and able to construct their own creative proposals for a theology for today?

Moreover, the breakdown of evangelicalism that a lot of people are experiencing today, is not a completely new phenomenon. Ever since the Enlightenment stormed onto…