This is a two-volume work exploring the implications of a broad-based Evangelicalism. It clarifies the distinctive aspects of Evangelicalism, and places theological issues in the context of both a historical perspective and the new life found in Christ. This book's] intent is to break down the walls that divide Christians from one another on significant doctrinal issues so that the church can give a unified witness to a world that sorely needs to hear and believe the good news of reconciliation and redemption through Jesus Christ. - from the preface. It is based on 20 years of scholarship by one of evangelical Christianity's senior theologians.