Although “many liberals dare not speak its name,” Mark Chavez argues at Duke Divinity School’s Faith and Leadership blog, “theological liberalism . . . is a more potent cultural presence than many realize”:
There are predictable differences among religious traditions in these numbers, but a majority even of white evangelicals say that many religions can lead to eternal life and that there is more than one true way to interpret the teachings of their religion.
If this isn’t theological liberalism, what is?
Yet, despite the clear signs that at least certain aspects of theological liberalism operate as the majority perspective within American Christianity, only a small minority of congregational leaders are willing to use the L-word to describe their congregations.
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