It is high time we gave up the comparatively recent habit of dividing the evangelical constituency into two camps: 'charismatic' and 'reformed'. It is surely neither sensible nor helpful.
It is not sensible because these terms are not true alternatives (unlike charismatic/non-charismatic or Reformed/Arminian). Taken together, they are neither sufficiently exclusive, many evangelicals claiming to be both, nor sufficiently inclusive, many evangelicals claiming to be neither. It is not helpful because most evangelicals tend to be happier to categorise others in this way than to be categorised themselves.
More importantly, any label designed to identify a section of evangelicalism can more easily be used to foster division rather than unity and must be handled with care. Then again, there is little future in trying to set against each other theological positions which spring from such different roots and give rise to such varied interpretations.
