Who are the NeoReformed? -Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight is doing a very interesting series on what he is calling the "NeoReformed" movement. This is his term for a particularly vocal sub-group of exclusionary Calvinists.

Part 1
Part 2

Some bombshell quotes:

"Furthermore, the NeoReformed have come to equate the meaning of "gospel" with Calvin's "Reformed theology." And those who aren't Reformed are somehow or in some ways denying the gospel itself. When gospel is equated with double predestination, often said in harsh terms, we are seeing a good example of the spirit of a NeoReformed approach. This leads, inevitably, to seeing what they call the "doctrines of grace" as defining both "gospel" and "evangelical." "

"The groups they've chosen to exclude witness to the new kind of Reformed. The sweeping impacts of the Finney revivals and Wesleyan gospel preaching and the charismatics are simply not, in the view of the NeoReformed, evangelicals. Anabaptists aren't even on the map...."

"If I had to sum it up I'd put it this way: the NeoReformed are those who are obsessed with God's holiness and grace and have not learned that grace makes people gracious. These folks are America's newest religious zealots and they are wounding, perhaps for a generation or two, evangelicalism."

I completely agree.