[lbo-talk] The coming evangelical collapse

Charles Brown cdb1003 at prodigy.net
Fri Mar 13 10:24:13 PDT 2009


The Christian Science Monitor

The coming evangelical collapse An anti-Christian  chapter in Western history is about to begin. But out of the ruins, a new vitality and integrity will rise.   By Michael Spencer

from the March 10, 2009 edition

Oneida, Ky. - We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter  the religious and cultural environment in the West.

Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants. (Between 25 and 35 percent of Americans today  are Evangelicals.) In the "Protestant" 20th century, Evangelicals flourished. But they will soon be living in a very secular and religiously  antagonistic 21st century.

 

Find this article at: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html



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