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During the 1960s and 70s, Western evangelicals spent much time discussing the relationship between social action and gospel proclamation, with major conferences held in Berlin (1966), Lausanne (1974) and Lausanne 2 in Manila (1989).

Some see such developments as a recovery of a vital element of authentic evangelicalism that was previously lost as an overreaction to the 'social gospel'. Other assessments are more negative, seeing a move away from full-blooded evangelicalism to a more liberal direction.