There are some good points you make here Andrew and I too have been wrestling with these in my own mind. I will try to add what I can to the discussion here:

1. At this point I do think that post evangelicalism is involved more in the process of stripping away things about faith that feel too dominated by a modern paradigm to boil taith down to its essense. What we do see is that some begin to reject all notions of historical faith, while others only have a feeling of new found freedom to explore areas that were dogmatic taboos under the modernist paradigm. I too have not seen much of a rejection or turn from some of the basics of evangelicalism and I too believe that basic faith in Jesus will not change in a post evangelical movement. Yet I wonder if this is a process of getting rid of all the added legalisms to the basics of the faith or if it is something different than that.

2. I like what you say here and I agree. I think that post evangelicalism should move towards a focusing of faith as I stated above. It is not that we just open up to all kinds of different and ‘new’ belief. To do so would be to move away from any kind of christian faith and its distinctives. I think the simple message of evangelicalism is good yet I think it may have communicated something that is only partially true. The gospel is not simply about getting into heaven. It is about a new life lived now. That opens up implications for how we live in culture, our purpose, mission, etc. I think the church has lost its mission in its search for propositional correctness. My hope is that there would be a simplifying of core faith propositions (these are needed) and a dialogical approach to those with different views as opposed to a win/lose apologetic approach.

3. I think it will remain an outpost if it spends all its time in intellectual deconstruction without looking towards praxis. The intitial reaction in any movement is to get rid of anything that looks like the old thing without really having any idea of what to do from there. So people want to get rid of basic Christian parameters as you state without any idea of the next step. It can become too reactionary and not practical. I think we need to think about bridge building and a humble respect for those who came before us. I too feel we could be in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

4. Agree totally. Faith needs to be worked out in context (culture and intellectual reality as you state). As long as we engage in studying trends while not attempting some kind of praxis we can become paralyzed by the amount of information and the quick pace of change.