Thanks for this. I find the framing of thin and sharp Christianity v. thick Christianity helpful. And while genuinely appreciative of Timothy Keller and his model of engagement, I would suppose that he wouldn’t have recognised McIntosh as an evangelical. It seems a mistake either to conceive of evangelicals as the only practitioners of thick Christianity, or to define evangelicalism as only those who, e.g. would be recognised as such in the Keller-ite frame. In fact, both mistakes are salutary examples precisely of thin and sharp Christianity. Can’t wait to read the book and see how he treats McIntosh.
Thanks. I think I'd agree - there's a thick Catholicism, too (for example). Rauch I think takes aim at evangelicalism because of its outsize influence in the US.
Thanks for this. I find the framing of thin and sharp Christianity v. thick Christianity helpful. And while genuinely appreciative of Timothy Keller and his model of engagement, I would suppose that he wouldn’t have recognised McIntosh as an evangelical. It seems a mistake either to conceive of evangelicals as the only practitioners of thick Christianity, or to define evangelicalism as only those who, e.g. would be recognised as such in the Keller-ite frame. In fact, both mistakes are salutary examples precisely of thin and sharp Christianity. Can’t wait to read the book and see how he treats McIntosh.
Thanks. I think I'd agree - there's a thick Catholicism, too (for example). Rauch I think takes aim at evangelicalism because of its outsize influence in the US.