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Contra Aaron Renn on Evangelicalism, Part 1

Why the Positive, Neutral, Negative World framework doesn't work.

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Samuel D. James
Jun 25, 2022
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Aaron Renn’s February essay in First Things, “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism,” will almost certainly be among the most influential things written this year in Christian circles. It’s the proverbial piece that launched a thousand takes. It has been cited positively by an emerging right-ward movement from within conservative evangelicalism, a movement…

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