Driscoll’s Acts 29 and Gospel Coalition networks fueled a masculine Calvinist revival

Evidence

Driscoll inspired by example, but he also helped construct new networks that would leave their imprint on twenty-first-century evangelicalism. Building on a foundation set by R. C. Sproul, John MacArthur, and John Piper, Driscoll helped fuel the movement of the “young, restless and reformed,” a revival of Calvinism that swept through American evangelicalism—and denominations like the SBC—in the 2000s. As cofounder of the Acts 29 network and as a founding member of The Gospel Coalition, Driscoll positioned himself at the center of an emerging movement that sought to revitalize evangelicalism with an injection of masculine “New Calvinist” doctrine. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 451

Categorization

• XREF: Institutional network analysis here parallels the reader’s prior work on reputation systems and institutional emergence — Driscoll building network infrastructure (Acts 29, Gospel Coalition) as the carrier of the movement, just as commercial institutions carried trade.