The Creeds and Doctrinal Advance by Gresham Machen

The historic creeds were exclusive of error; they were intended to exclude error; they were intended to set forth the Biblical teaching in sharp contrast with what was opposed to the Biblical teaching, in order that the purity of the church might be preserved. These modern statements, on the contrary, are inclusive of error. They are designed to make room in the church for just as many people and for just as many types of thought as possible.

There are entirely too many denominations in this country, says the modern ecclesiastical efficiency expert. Obviously, many of them must be merged. But the trouble is, they have different creeds. Here is one church, for example, that has a clearly Calvinistic creed; here is another whose creed is just as clearly Arminian, let us say, and anti-Calvinistic. How in the world are we going to get the two together? Why, obviously, says the ecclesiastical efficiency expert, the thing to do is to tone down that Calvinistic creed; just smooth off its sharp angles, until Arminians will be able to accept it. Or else we can do something better still. We can write an entirely new creed that will contain only what Arminianism and Calvinism have in common, so that it can serve as the basis for some proposed new ‘United Church.’

J. Gresham Machen

Oddly enough Machen's remarks apply with precision to Evangelicalism as a whole.  Mike Horton's reduction of essentials to the trinity and the inerrancy of Scripture approaches the ridiculous.  Basically, the term "Evangelical" is a reified illusion with no rational content whatsoever.  What we need is a move toward a neo-fundamentalism and Reformed theology.  Lines must be much more clearly drawn in the future.

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The Creeds and Doctrinal Advance by Gresham Machen