I wanted to put up a quick post to deal with an objection that had been raised to John Shelton’s post over on the main site. In his post, Shelton argued that there is a strong individualistic streak to American evangelicalism and that it is exemplified by a work like the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel.
Several folks objected to this description, including Dr. Tom Ascol, one of the statement’s signers.
The only way that autonomous individualism could be baked into the statement is by a postmodern reading of it or the complete incompetence of the framers & theological naiveté of the 11,000 signers. I highly suspect the former. Groups can & do sin collectively. Who denies that?
— tom ascol (@tomascol) April 25, 2019
Specifically they argued that the language of Article V makes it clear that they cannot be individualistic:
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