Who is misrepresenting Lloyd-Jones?

Iain Murray  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Nov 2001
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An issue raised briefly in my previous article requires fuller comment. It is commonly agreed that Dr. Lloyd-Jones's 1966 address for the Evangelical Alliance (EA) became the occasion of a division among evangelicals; the disagreement concerns what caused that division.

David F. Wright (Professor at New College, Edinburgh, and elder in the Church of Scotland) believes that my presentation of the Lloyd-Jones 1966 address in Evangelicalism Divided 'patently misreads' it (Reformation and Revival, vol. 10, Spring 2001, p.129).

I wrote that the headline subsequently given to the address by a critical press, 'Evangelicals - leave your denominations', was calculated to mislead, and that 'he said no such thing' (p.48). Dr. Wright 'cannot understand' how I could make such an assertion.

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