The Tragedy of Compromise: The Origin and Impact of the New Evangelicalism

Since the birth of the New Evangelicalism in 1948 that movement has been a powerful force in American religion particularly in bringing conservative Christianity into the mainstream of religious life.Yet with all the praise heaped upon the New Evangelicalism by secular and liberal sources the movement has seriously compromised the biblical principles inherited from its fundamental fore-fathers. Furthermore New Evangelicalism has sped headlong into un-Christian philosophies and standards that make even the founding fathers of the movement draw back.