Not exact matches
This message of the new birth through Christ has been the hallmark of the
evangelical movement since at least the
time of Whitefield.
And white
evangelical Protestants, the base of the Christian Right, are roughly five
times more likely to agree with the Tea Party
movement than to disagree with it, according to a Pew survey analysis released earlier this year.
I actually do a presentation when I seek to explain the modern
evangelical movement, particularly to
movement leaders here in the United States or to missionaries who have been out of the country for a long
time.
White
evangelical Protestants are roughly five
times more likely to agree with the Tea Party
movement than to disagree with it, Pew found.
At the same
time, it provides grounds for a sympathetic critique of the charismatic
movement's foibles, as well as of the foibles of
evangelicals and social activists.
We dare not move beyond the biblical limits of the Gospel; but we can not be fully
evangelical without recognizing our need to learn from other
times and
movements concerning the whole meaning of that Gospel.
By the
time the council met, many of the
evangelicals from Western countries had already distanced themselves from the IMC
movement, although they would still be greatly influenced by the meeting (and continue to be today).
In the light of these findings and the statistics on audience sizes for these programs, the paid -
time religious programs appear not as a major thrust fully supported and influential on the
evangelical movement as a whole, but as a rather small subculture within evangelicalism.
As a consequence of the displacement of these other types of religious programs, the growth of paid -
time religious programming in the 1960s and 1970s has resulted in a marked
movement in religious television away from representating a range of U.S. cultures and traditions toward representing mainly the Protestant
evangelical and fundamentalist traditions, particularly the independent broadcast organizations.
Mormonism started in the same
time and place as several American
evangelical traditions like Pentecostal
movements.