Evangelical theology is now a very wide category; indeed Leanne Van Dyk, in her essay ‘The Church in evangelical theology and practice’, includes a quotation by Nathan O. Hatch claiming that ‘In truth, there is no such things as evangelicalism’ (p. 127). Many may have sympathy with that remark, since such a wide spectrum of Churches and theologies would claim the label, including some ‘Catholics’ and many ‘Liberals’; Don Cupitt has said that he develops evangelical insights in his subjectivism. The great Schleiermacher thought that he was articulating a theology of evangelical faith while Charles Hodge, B. B. Warfield and the Reformed school likewise claim the title. ‘Open evangelicals’ today are fearful of doctrine and keen to theologise about experience and get away from legalistic modes of Puritanical faith, as is reported by Stephen Holmes in chapter xvi of this book, ‘British (and European) evangelical theologies’, a coy reference to Europe indeed. The book is in two parts, the first on doctrine, the second on ‘the contexts’ of evangelical theology. Its prime value is located in part one, where John Webster's essay ‘Jesus Christ’ splendidly tells us that evangelical theology rests confidently and gladly in the Gospel and needs to avoid trying to be clever with apologetics and cultural studies – happily Barth, surely the great evangelical theologian, is not put in European brackets by Webster. Vanhoozer's essay on the Trinity is also valuable. The contextual essays on Asia and Africa, and Rene Padilla on Latin America, likewise are of interest. This reader found ‘elephants in the room’: sexual ethics and other faiths, the two crisis topics splitting world evangelical theology, were not discussed: where was Oliver O'Donovan on ethics, where Vinoth Ramachandra on other faiths, notably Islam? Indeed where was Anthony Thiselton on hermeneutics? To many British evangelicals this will seem quite a North American ‘Cambridge Companion’ – but this takes us back to the puzzling question of how evangelicalism should be defined.