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Tony Campolo Still an "Evangelical" After Approving Gay Marriage?

Evangelist and author Tony Campolo now supports gay marriage, a reversal of his previous position where he cited clear biblical teaching as his authority. But is he still evangelical ?  Does that term apply any more? In 1984 the Christian philosopher and apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in The Great Evangelical Disaster , "There is only one way to describe those who no longer hold to a full view of Scripture. Although many of these would like to retain the evangelical name for themselves, the only accurate way to describe this view is that of a form of neo-orthodox existential theology. The heart of neo-orthodox existential theology is that the Bible gives us a quarry out of which to have religious experience, but that the Bible contains mistakes when it touches that which is verifiable - namely history and science. But unhappily we must say that this concept now has come into some of that which is called evangelicalism."