Sentences with phrase «century evangelicalism»

One element of evangelicalism remains in continuity with 19th - century evangelicalism (then mainstream Protestantism), and has never passed through the narrow valley where fundamentalists fought modernists.

-- we would have been treated to a tracing of the contours of «evangelical liberalism's» placement within liberalism, an account of the evolution of Fosdick's modernism from 19th - century evangelicalism, and an assessment of whether Fosdick belongs in the evangelical wing of the social gospel movement along with his hero, Walter Rauschenbusch.

More recently, Donald Dayton has shown in The Theological Roots of Pentecostalism (1987) that these developments in the Wesleyan and Reformed traditions were two wings of a larger movement taking place in 19th - century evangelicalism.

Not exact matches

These three basic paradigms of evangelicalism derive then from the period of the Reformation centered in the sixteenth century, the «awakenings» of the eighteenth century, and the fundamentalist / modernist controversies of the last hundred years or so.

Now we can ask, what was the heart of evangelicalism in the eighteenth century?

Mainstream Protestantism has been mainly resigned as it has lost such hegemony after the middle of the 20th century; evangelicalism has been more resentful and condemning, more angry and prone to action as it has lost the dominance it enjoyed in the 18th and 19th centuries.

While it is true that the Reformers occasionally used the word «evangelical» in their writings, most historians locate the roots of evangelicalism solidly within Wesley's Methodism in England and in the Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th centuries.

If this faction mutes the premillennial debate, it has not yielded so readily on another movement that like evangelicalism and fundamentalism could easily be called «the religious phenomenon of the twentieth century» — Pentecostalism.

Judging from the agenda then apparent in the minds of young evangelicals and charismatics, I viewed the completed shape of the awakening as including new levels of theological and spiritual depth, a reinvigoration of the ecumenical impulse, and a return to the balance of nurture, evangelism and social transformation present in the original evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries.

It overlooks the fact that the original or classical evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation of concerns which in the modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation of manners, and social reform.

In the late 19th century, under the deforming impact of dispensational pessimism and liberal optimism, the broad river of classical evangelicalism divided into a delta, with shallower streams emphasizing — ecumenism and social renewal on the left and confessional orthodoxy and evangelism on the right.

Reflecting still a third perspective within evangelicalism, David Moberg in the second part of his book Inasmuch: Christian Social Responsibility in Twentieth Century America spells out the Scriptural basis for Christian social concern.

North American evangelicalism seems, at the end of the twentieth century, to be living in such an era.

Throughout the eighteenth century in Europe, the decline of «religious certitude» ¯ what is nowadays called evangelicalism or, less knowledgeably, fundamentalism ¯ was widely taken for granted.

Modern American evangelicalism emerged in the late 19th century, built around biblical literalism and an emphasis on human sin and redemption.

Nineteenth - century Protestantism tended to bifurcate into liberal, social - Gospel progressivism, such as Unitarianism, and the emotional, «backwater,» Calvinistic Evangelicalism of the South and the rural countryside, with its implacably distant and masculine God as Judge.

The decline of Roman Catholicism in Latin America and the subsequent rise of evangelicalism has been well - documented over the past century.

Historian William McLoughlin describes the thought of Horace Bushnell as typical of nineteenth - century «Romantic Evangelicalism.»

The history of the ministry in America has rightly been called a movement of constancy in the direction of «evangelicalism,» at least until the present century.

Let me give an example of» how this more complex analysis might work with respect to one historical case with which I am most familiar, the history of fundamentalism and post-fundamentalist evangelicalism in twentieth - century America.

Indeed, in almost all of his published works, Balmer has maintained his desire to recover the evangelicalism of the late - nineteenth century.

Evangelicalism, as I define it, is a renewal movement within historic Christian orthodoxy with deep roots in the early Church, the Reformation of the sixteenth century, and the great awakenings of the eighteenth century (and it includes puritanism, pietism, and pentecostalism, as well as fundamentalism).

At the center of the story stands religious freedom and separation of Church and State, which posed problems undreamed of during the previous centuries of Christendom, and the sweep of «evangelicalism» which enabled the denominations to triumph in a world of regnant individualism.