Lausanne and true truth

Ranald Macaulay  |  Your Views
Date posted:  1 May 2016
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Dear en,

I was thankful for Chris Wright’s gentle corrective in the April edition. I should have expressed more appreciation for The Cape Town Commitment because it is full of helpful affirmations and observations.

But my focus was on what might be called the ‘Lausanne time-lag phenomenon’. I was simply wondering why, even though ‘truth-decay’ was a major issue confronting the church in 1974 – as he admits – it took the Lausanne movement 36 years before it finally attended to it. Surely, just as an historical fact this is noteworthy, not of course to point the finger at ‘Cape Town’ but to wonder why Evangelicalism’s mission during the previous century was so compromised by theological omissions like the one highlighted in 1974.

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