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Evangelicals will carry into the twenty-first century a full library of reflection on their twentieth-century experience.1 Their studies have traced the rise and fall of the tide of liberalism. Early in the twentieth century those who accommodated the Gospel to the rationalism of the Enlightenment gained control of denominational headquarters and educational institutions. Fundamentalism, on the defensive, rightly saw liberal modernism as a rejection of Christianity. A wider group of evangelicals continued to define themselves …

…who heard him" (Heb. 2! :3). "We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away" (Heb. 2:1). The issues for ecclesiology, whether of the individual and the community, of male and female, or of truth for the post-modern mind, are all transformed in Christ under His authority, His revealed Word, illumined by His Spirit. He is Lord and governs His Church by His Word and Spirit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**