An Essay and Review

Abstract

Evangelical Christianity, especially evangelical scientists as well as most theologians and missiologists, is still so often bound by Modernity. It is a syncretism so subtle that few actually realize it. There is very little “epistemological self-consciousness” among evangelicals, it seems, to use a phrase pioneered by C.A. Van Til.1 Exactly the same syncretism is true of anti-evangelical science and religion writers. They are bound to Modernity yet also have little awareness of their own implicit syncretistic foundation upon the creationist-providential view of their now almost post-Christian cultures. These two volumes illustrate this contention.