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Promise Unfulfilled: The Failed Strategy of Modern Evangelicalism

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, 2004
ISBN: 9781932307313
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Overview

New Evangelicalism found its beginnings with the formation of the National Association of Evangelicals in 1942. This new group was mainly led by younger professing fundamentalist scholars and leaders who had become dissatisfied with their heritage and wanted to carve out some evangelical middle ground between fundamentalism and neo-orthodoxy. Promise Unfulfilled: The Failed Strategy of Modern Evangelicalism is an analysis of the break-away movement in terms of the issues, ideas, and practices that led to its beginning, its expansion in the 1970s, its subsequent loss of biblical and doctrinal stability, and its slide toward virtual irrelevancy in a postmodern world culture of the twenty-first century. It will be a valuable addition to the pastor’s library and a strategic resource for theological education in Bible colleges and seminaries.

The twenty-five chapters in this volume are grouped under nine main sections: Historical Antecedents, The Formation of the New Evangelicalism, Ecumenism, Ecclesiastical Separation, The Bible and Authority, Apologetics, Social Involvement, Doctrinal Storms, and Evaluations and Prospects. Easily searchable in the Logos edition, McCune's writings provide a fascinating look at the theological developments of the twentieth century. Scriptures are accessible by hovering over references in the text, and this volume can be pulled up alongside other resources on the subject for ease of study.

  • Historical account of the development of New Evangelicalism
  • Perfect for pastors, students, and theologians
  • Nearly 400 pages of insight into the growth and expansion of theological ideas during the twentieth century

Top Highlights

“Logic is valid and necessary for communication on the creaturely level. Human language itself is univocal; it is predicated on the law of contradiction.” (Page 226)

“For our purposes the term ‘new evangelicalism’ applies to a strain of conservative, traditional, Protestant, religious thought that coalesced into a movement in the mid-twentieth century, purporting to avoid the fundamentalist right and the neo-orthodox/neo-liberal left.” (Page xvi)

“The inclusive policy of new evangelical evangelism turned out to be, as fundamentalists feared and warned, a colossal failure. The ecumenical evangelist puts himself into the position where he is unable to speak against apostasy because he has apostate ministers in his sponsorship, and he is unwilling to speak against unorthodox denominations and institutions because he believes there are many fine Christians still in them.” (Page 83)

“New evangelicalism had ‘a willingness to handle the social problems which Fundamentalism evaded,’ a change of strategy ‘from one of separation to one of infiltration,’ a willingness to ‘face the intellectual problems and meet them in the framework of modern learning,’ and a ‘positive proclamation of the truth in distinction from all errors without delving into the personalities which embrace the error.” (Page 59)

“detachment of faith from knowledge; God could be ‘thought’ but He could not be ‘known.’9” (Page 5)

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The material contained in this book, helped me understand the dangers of the compromises which had been made before I was born but were bearing very bad fruit by the time I was entering ministry. McCune’s book is a serious and solemn call to faithfulness that desperately needs to be heard.

—Dr. David M. Doran, President, Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, Senior Pastor, Inter-City Baptist Church, Allen Park, MI

McCune documents his research meticulously. He explains the rise of new evangelicalism, with its disdain for fundamentalism and its pride of intellect. He shows throughout how the movement was an attack on the inspiration and the literal interpretation of Scripture. Fundamentalists who might be tempted to move leftward will find that this book is a must read.

—Dr. Robert Delnay, Bible Professor and former Department Chairman at Clearwater Christian College in Clearwater, Florida

Promise Unfulfilled is indeed a profitable work. McCune’s content is carefully researched and his conclusions are scripturally based.

—Dr. David Beale, Professor of Church History, Bob Jones University

A careful comprehensive theological and historical treatment of the New Evangelical movement by a competent conservative scholar—Dr. McCune has done a great service to those committed to practicing ministry in the context of Biblical Fundamentalism.

—Dr. Sam Horn, Executive Vice President, Northland Baptist Bible College

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Rolland McCune was born in 1934 in Indiana. A theologian and former president of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, he has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. The winner of awards for his theological studies, he has also published numerous articles and resources. Dr. McCune has pastored several churches in the Midwest and has also served on the faculty of Central Baptist Theological Seminary.

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  1. Randy

    Randy

    1/17/2025

    I can't believe it. My old homiletics teacher, Dr. Robert Delnay recommended this book. --Gonna check it out.
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  2. Jayce Kassuhn

    Jayce Kassuhn

    1/15/2025

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  4. Pearson Johnson

    Pearson Johnson

    12/2/2019

    This work is the fruit of careful study of and living through the attempts of the New Evangelicalism movement to take a middle road emerging out of the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy. McCune writes in a way that is understood by academics and average believers alike. Besides that, he was a good man, excellent teacher, and friend.
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  5. Dr. George Bannister. Ph.D., D.Min., Th.M., M.Div.
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    Will Bruner

    10/6/2015

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    Greg Ward

    9/12/2013

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    Doug

    7/27/2013

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