There, Ramm wrote of the "noble" concordist tradition of
the latter part of the 19th century, that "unfortunately...
[it] has not been the major tradition in evangelicalism
in the twentieth century. Both a narrow evangelical
Biblicism, and its narrow theology, buried the noble
tradition."
If Ramm was correct -- and I think he was -- then the
"young earth" part of creationism, which was NOT widely
held for most of this century, is only one part of a much
larger problem, namely, that evangelicals as a group
have not come to terms with their own "narrow" view
of scripture. Of course, that's what the argument is
all about, isn't it...?
Ted Davis