And remember when I averred that parts of
Protestant evangelicalism seemed to be run by the Mob?
Over at Red Letter Christians, Jimmy Spencer asserts that the Bell vs. Piper debate signals a forthcoming split within
Protestant Evangelicalism:
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Newman understood one of the great problems of
Protestant evangelicalism.
Not exact matches
But what does seem clear to me is that confessional
Protestants need to think long and hard about their connections to
evangelicalism, broadly conceived.
He's right that the growth of
evangelicalism has likely hit a plateau and hasn't compensated for the decline of the mainline
Protestant and Roman Catholic churches.
Don, please note that your opinion reflects only one interpretation of Christianity which appears to be rooted in both the
Protestant Reformation and more recently, American - style
Evangelicalism.
I'd ask that of fundamentalists, mainline
Protestants, progressive
evangelicalism, and, yes, conservative
evangelicalism.
For many, the path that led from the historic patterns of
Protestant pietism to ecumenically engaged, socially involved and intellectually critical
evangelicalism, and away from constrictive fundamentalism, forked at Rauschenbusch.
Of the seven evangelical
Protestant authors (e.g., Francis Schaeffer, Cornelius Van Til, Harold Lindsell, A. W. Tozier), it is fair to say that none of them would be named, and most of them would not be known, outside the world of
evangelicalism.
For some, immediacy is the defining characteristic of
Evangelicalism, and any
Protestant who gives too central a place to liturgy and sacraments is driven from the camp.
In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 1957, for example, among members of the
Protestant clergy who chose to call themselves conservative or fundamental, 48 % affirmed that belief in Scripture's inspiration also demanded a commitment to its inerrancy, while 52 % said they were either unsure of the doctrine of inerrancy or rejected it outright.1 Discussion within
evangelicalism concerning the inspiration of Scripture has usually focused on this point: whether or not Scripture is inerrant.
«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern
evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic c
evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the
Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment
Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic c
Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New
Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic c
Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.
Beyond this Catholic -
Protestant combination, which accounts for up to 57 percent of Americans, one must add figures for the Eastern Orthodox and the many forms of
evangelicalism and conservative Protestantism that explicitly and implicitly profess classic faith in God over faith in the self - as - of - God or self - in - God Of Gnosticism.
Ironically, there are some signs here and there that the sort of traditional
Protestant liturgicalism that Lutherans once exemplified is increasingly attractive — especially to urban Evangelicals searching for theological roots deeper than those often found in generic
Evangelicalism.
Acoemetae Adelophagi Adventist Movement amillennialism Amish Anabaptism Arminian Theology Assemblies of God Augustinians Baptists Benedictines Cahenslyism Calvinism Capuchins Carmelites Christadelphians Christian Identity Church of Christ Church of England Church Universal and Triumphant Congregationalism Coptic Christianity dispensationalism Dominicans Eastern Orthodox Episcopal Church Ethiopian Christianity
Evangelicalism Franciscans fundamentalism Gnosticism Huguenots Hutterites IURD Jehovah's Witnesses Liberation Theology Lutheran Church Mainline
Protestant Maronites Mendicant Orders Mennonites Methodism Neo-Orthodoxy Old Catholic Movement Pentecostal Church People's Temple Pietism Pilgrims postmillennialism premillennialism Presbyterian Church Primitivism
Protestant Puritanism Quakers Quietism Roman Catholicism Sabbatarianism Scholasticism Shakers Spiritual Baptists staret Thomas Christians Thomism Transcendentalism Trinitarianism Unification Church Unitarian Universalist Unitarianism United Church of Christ
As a loose coalition of conservative
Protestants,
evangelicalism has always been a fragmented movement held together by a common mission, and by organizations such as the National Association of Evangelicals.
What would you think of working on subject matter such as the history of
evangelicalism, the Roman Catholic experience in America, the ministry of historic mainline
Protestant churches, or the Mormons?
Evangelicalism is in the curious position of rejecting one Catholic Pope, and accepting 10s of millions of
Protestant Popes.
We all know a secular person or three who converted, a Jew for Jesus, a Catholic who switched, a mainstream
Protestant's child who was Campus Crusaded and is born again, but there seems to have been no move of a cohort, no mass migration into
evangelicalism and conservative Protestantism.
Richard Beck: «Searching for Sunday isn't a story about someone breaking up with
evangelicalism to become a mainline
Protestant.
If, in Paul Tillich's terms,
Protestant principle has swallowed up Catholic substance in much of contemporary
evangelicalism, this is because evangelicals have paid too little attention to the sum total of the Christian heritage handed down from previous ages.
Evangelicalism is a worldwide, transdenominational movement within
Protestant Christianity, maintaining that the essence of the gospel consists in the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.