URL: http://ttpstudents.com/papers/ets/2001/Patterson/Patterson.html

Summary:
by James A. Patterson
2001

One of the principal sticking points in defining evangelicalism's boundaries is the transparent diversity that has characterized the movement in the United States. Perhaps no historian has celebrated evangelical pluralism more than the late Nazarene pastor and Johns Hopkins professor, Timothy Smith. In fact, at the Evangelical Theological Society's national meeting in 1984, Smith's plenary session paper proposed the kaleidoscope as one of the most appropriate images for understanding evangelicalism's rich and deep-rooted variety..

Category: Practical Theology

Tags: Evangelicalism, Higher Education, Education, the Council for Christian Colleges & Universit, CCCU, college, university