It is a term which is commonly used in the United Kingdom in reference to both individuals and institutions.
[1] Open evangelicals describe their position as combining a traditional evangelical emphasis on the nature of scriptural authority, the teaching of the ecumenical creeds and other traditional doctrinal teachings, with an approach towards culture and other theological points of view which tends to be more inclusive than that taken by other evangelicals.
[1] Another Anglican, Martyn Percy, contends that such a position is quite tenuous and, on divisive issues, either stands firm to a form of uncritical conservatism or risks being attacked as theological liberalism.
[2] The think tank Fulcrum and the periodical Anvil were established as fora for open evangelicals within the Church of England.
[3] Prominent advocates of the open evangelical position include N. T. Wright, Graham Kings, Steven Croft, and Justin Welby.