Usually in conservative Protestant contexts when we talk about the difference between the evangelicals and the mainline, the differences in view are theological. Often they are actually more or less the differences articulated a hundred years ago in Machen's Christianity and Liberalism, even though today's mainline, particularly its younger members, tend to not really map well onto those debates. The errors of the contemporary mainline often (though certainly not always) have far more to do with anthropology than they do theology proper.
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