Evangelicalism

Some writers deploy "evangelical" and "evangelicalism" strictly in a theological sense, often associated with the theology of "the Evangelical Awakening," (known in America as the "Great Awakening"). Perhaps the ablest exponent of this view is the late Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. In three addresses first delivevered to IFES students in 1971, he set forth his case. Beginning with the opening verses of Jude, Lloyd-Jones argued that sometimes the most urgent thing that Christian leaders can do, even when they much prefer to do something else, is urge fellow-believers "to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints" (Jude 3)...

[D]oubtless Lloyd-Jones would have been the first to insist that our touchstone is not the Evangelical Awakening, but the Bible. Put differently, our attempts to "contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints" must never be cast as merely a conservative call to an earlier period of the evangelical movement, ... but to the Bible itself.

- D. A. Carson, The Gagging of God (Zondervan, 1996) pp. 448-9 (emphasis included).