The new report identifies four key statements that
define evangelical beliefs, creating what may be the first research - driven creed.
Not exact matches
I know this is, in blogosphere time, old news, but this blog is new and currently on the subject of
evangelical definitions, so fuh - giva - ness please.Bell
defines evangelical for a Boston Globe interviewer thusly: I embrace the term
evangelical, if by that we mean a
belief that we together can....
The idea is to
define evangelicals by
belief rather than self - identified religious affiliation, said McConnell.
Among
evangelicals, for example,
belief in biblical literalism, church attendance, and identification with fundamentalism or other sectarian religious movements
defined these groups, while among Catholics, we used traditional Catholic
beliefs, church attendance and confession, and identification with «traditional» or «progressive» movements in the Church.
«We're not saying these are the only
evangelicals, but we are saying this will
define someone as having
evangelical belief,» said Scott McConnell, vice president of LifeWay Research.
«
Evangelicals are people of faith and should be
defined by their
beliefs, not by their politics or race,» said NAE president Leith Anderson.
CNN: My Take: Counting the Bible's words doesn't yield a Republican Jesus Stephen Prothero, Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and
Define a Nation,» responds to angry emails he received after writing a
Belief Blog post in which he takes issue with
evangelicals using Jesus as a political tool to benefit the Republican Party.