Anthony Bradley on the Newest Legalism

Writing at the Acton blog, Dr. Anthony Bradley explains how the “missional” and “radical” emphases are becoming a new legalism within Evangelical Christianity. The only thing that I would add to his observations is that these are not “slowly becoming” legalism, as he originally wrote, but have been decidedly legalistic from the beginning. There are better and worse representatives, of course, and I’m sure they would be willing to adjust when confronted with the problem, but I have yet to see any such proponents who are familiar with and supportive of the classical doctrine of vocation. This is yet another issue where it seems that Evangelicals could stand to un-invent the wheel or, in this case, the church.