2/28/2004 09:28:00 AM

Inventing Evangelicalism

"The most important intellectual influence on Henry was Gordon Clark, a Presbyterian theologian, who emphasized propositional truth and the rationality of belief in God."

Articles, like this one, that track the history of a movement through recounting the life decisions of the nascent movement's early thought leaders fascinate me. A movement's impact always begins as a series of simple decisions that play themselves out over time in a certain manner.

It is impossible to simply repeat the sentence quoted above with regard to the morphing face of the Abrahamic tradition in our day. While the rational proposition will never leave us it's centrality has long been eclipsed by internetworked system thinking.

What decisions are being made today that will spawn an article such as this in 100 years?