Open Evangelical
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Open Evangelical refers to a particular Christian school of thought or Churchmanship, primarily in the United Kingdom (especially in the Church of England). Open Evangelicals describe their position as combining a traditional Evangelical emphases on the nature of scriptural authority, the teaching of the ecumenical creeds and other traditional doctrinal teachings, with an approach towards culture and other theological points of view which tends to be more inclusive than that taken by other Evangelicals. They aim to take a middle position between conservative and charismatic evangelicals.
Open Evangelicalism is particularly represented by the Fulcrum movement in the Church of England, and prominent advocates of the Open Evangelical position include N.T. Wright, the current Bishop of Durham. The Open Evangelical journal is Anvil.
Open Evangelicalism is particularly strong within the following theological colleges in England: Ridley Hall in Cambridge, St John's in Nottingham, and Cranmer Hall in Durham.
Prominent Open Evangelical churches include St Mary's Islington (Diocese of London), St Nicholas' Durham, and Holy Trinity Cambridge, where Charles Simeon was the minister in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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- Definition of Open Evangelical from Ridley Hall
- Review of service of St Mary's Islington, London, including discussion of Open Evangelicalism
- Canal, River and Rapids: Contemporary Evangelicalism in the Church of England: Fulcrum post about Evangelicalism, which contains an outline of Open Evangelicalism in A.2.
