{"id":40474,"date":"2013-10-10T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gc_blog_matt_smethurst-evidences_of_a_maturing_evangelical_mind\/"},"modified":"2013-10-10T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T14:40:53","slug":"gc_blog_matt_smethurst-evidences_of_a_maturing_evangelical_mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40474","title":{"rendered":"(GC Blog) Matt Smethurst&#8211;Evidences of a Maturing Evangelical Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995, Mark Noll opened his The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind with an unflattering observation: &#8220;The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, almost two decades later, has anything changed? In a new roundtable video, three Christian higher education presidents\u201d\u201dMichael Lindsay, Albert Mohler, and Philip Ryken\u201d\u201dconsider evidences of a recovered and maturing evangelical mind in the years since Noll&#8217;s landmark work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re no longer trying to prove ourselves, trying to get a seat at the table,&#8221; observes Lindsay, president of Gordon College in Massachusetts. &#8220;I think evangelicals have demonstrated they can do the highest level of scholarship in fields like history, philosophy, and sociology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2013\/10\/08\/evidences-of-a-maturing-evangelical-mind\">Read it all<\/a> and watch the video also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995, Mark Noll opened his The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind with an unflattering observation: &#8220;The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.&#8221; Now, almost two decades later, has anything changed?<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40474\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,209,419,154,108,167,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-seminary-theological-education","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}