The lovely people at Fulcum seem to have put me onto their leadership team. Fulcum â?? â??Renewing the Evangelical Centreâ?? â?? aims to â??represent the centre ground of evangelical Anglicanism in the church and in wider societyâ??. It has an annual conference, and a huge website which offers a news and comment service, publishes essays and articles, and has a very lively forum in which people talk about what it is to be evangelical and Anglican, and a host of more general theological issues. You can read about Fulcrumâ??s founding and where it fits in the English Evangelical scene. You should go and have a look.
I donâ??t think the management at Fulcrum appreciate how slow a writer I am, and how long readers of this blog have to wait for each new, though well-worn, observation to appear from the tired brain of Knight.
It will be a big treat me to be in the evangelical centre. I don’t think I have ever got into the centre before, and I am looking forward to it. I am not sure the centre is the only place to be, though. Might not the edge, or even right outside, be the proper place for me?
Being an evangelical means you are in a good company. But sometimes the evangelical, a disciple, is on their own, pitched not only against the world, but against other Christians, even sometimes against â??the Evangelicals.â?? Sometimes the centre becomes vanishingly small and the Christian has no place to stand. Then you may experience some discomfort, as they say.
Readers of this blog will know that Christ is never without his people, and that christology therefore always involves us in ecclesiology, and vice versa, so that evangelical implies catholic, and catholic implies evangelical. Since you lot know all this, I will try out one or two things here, just between ourselves, before displaying them there on Fulcrum for all the world to see. Better I get into trouble with you than with them because the English are a bit â?¦ well, you know.
And I hope to achieve a little synergy by also talking about the recent work of the greatest living British theologian. Iâ??ll tell you who that is â?? very shortly.
