"Evangelicals have a craven need for acceptability by the wider world"

Except for his putting “the particularity of salvation” (meaning, I assume, limited atonement) on par with penal substitution, of any meaningful notion of biblical authority, of the uniqueness of Christ for salvation, of justification by grace through faith, I thought this was an absolutely excellent article.

It hit the nail on the head:

The impact evangelical scholars have had on the academy is, by and large, paltry, and often (as noted) confined to those areas where their contributions have been negligibly evangelical.

Instead of learning how to be godly in an ungodly society, we are trying to make lost people act more godly but are losing that skill ourselves.

Ed,

I believe “particularity of salvation” is intended as the opposite of “universality of salvation” and is not a reference to definite atonement.