This article is written as a sympathetic confrontation with the New Evangelicalism. It explores the developments in modern apologetics, the so-called new method as it is reflected in New Evangelicalism, and it proposes its own apologetic method.

This article looks at the impact of Puritans today in light of fundamentalism, new evangelicalism, and the charismatic movement. Puritanism has in the past provided faithful biblical teaching for living the Christian life, and still has lot to offer for Christians today.