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| | Evangelicalism |
 | | Evangelicalism is the movement in modern Christianity, transcending denominational and confessional boundaries, that emphasizes conformity to the basic tenets of the faith and a missionary outreach of compassion and urgency. | | | The common purpose of evangelical movements was to revitalize the churches spiritually. | | | Evangelicals regard Scripture as the divinely inspired record of God's revelation, the infallible, authoritative guide for faith and practice. |
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http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/text/evangeli.htm
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| | Evangelicalism |
| | The term came into general use in England at the time of the Methodist revival under Wesley and Whitefield, which had its roots in Calvinism and which, with its emphasis on emotion and mysticism in the spiritual realm, was itself in part a reaction against the "rational" Deism of the earlier eighteenth century. | | | The Evangelical Movement in the Church of England | | | Evangelicals, too, denied that ordination imparted any supernatural gifts, and upheld the sole authority of the Bible in matters of doctrine. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/evangel1.html
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| | Neo-evangelicalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The movement's aim at the outset was to reclaim the Evangelical heritage in their respective churches, not to begin something new; and for this reason, following their separation from Fundamentalists, the same movement has been better known as merely, "Evangelicalism". | | | At the same time they criticized their fellow Fundamentalists, for their separatism, and their rejection of the Social gospel as it had been developed by Protestant activists of the previous century. | | | The fundamentalist opponents of these new evangelicals, on the other hand, saw themselves as more willing to publically confront church apostasy and personal immorality than neo-evangelicals; and they believed this to have its proper and constructive place. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-evangelicalism
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| | Defining Evangelicalism |
| | British historian David Bebbington approaches evangelicalism from this direction and notes four specific hallmarks of evangelical religion: conversionism, the belief that lives need to be changed; activism, the expression of the gospel in effort; biblicism, a particular regard for the Bible; and crucicentrism, a stress on the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. | | | Through most of the 19th-century, however, nearly all American evangelicals were convinced of the postmillenial interpretation of the Bible: the decidedly "calmer" belief that the church--through the exercise of its mandate to teach and preach the Gospel--would gradually usher in the Kingdom of God in preparation for Christ's return. | | | The first is to see as "evangelical" all Christians who affirm a few key doctrines and practical emphases. |
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http://www.wheaton.edu/isae/defining_evangelicalism.html
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| | Evangelicalism became what Mark A |
| | Evangelicals found themselves within a new intellectual world in which the old presuppositions of the faith were increasingly questioned as religion was seen as the record of changing human beliefs about God. | | | The Presbyterian fundamentalists were unable to achieve their aims because some evangelicals abhorred division within the church and were prepared to tolerate diversity of belief. | | | In the 1870s a series of Bible conferences were arranged to oppose postmillennialism and other evangelical ills, and to promote premillennialism, the unity of the body of Christ and the grammatico-historical Bible interpretation. |
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http://www.geocities.com/psalm37v37/fundamentalism2.htm
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| | Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: Lying in Church |
| | Schism is to the church as amputation is to the body. | | | Evangelicals believe in the new birth, even for those who grew up in the community of the church. | | | There are others, however, who have left churches not because they have lost their faith, but because the church demands that to participate in the worship service they must lie to God. |
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http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2005/07/lying_in_church.html
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| | Stones Cry Out |
| | Share Your Faith: Those who observe evangelicals for any length of time should at some point be aware that they are telling others about their faith in Jesus Christ for the grace to live each day and for eternal salvation. | | | For evangelical Christians in public life there must spiritual first things--the bedrock that precedes and provides the foundation for actions, traits, and political positions, and that must supercede interest in re-election. | | | I suggest that there are the 12 first things that should be embraced by faithful Christians whatever their political philosophy. |
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http://www.stonescryout.org:16080/archives/by_subject/evangelicalism
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| | JOLLYBLOGGER: Evangelicalism and Inerrancy |
| | I think Doc Rampage comes closest to the modern definition of evangelicalism when he says that it emphasizes the Scripture as the ultimate authority and the need to be born again. | | | For instance, Back of the Envelope says that most fundamentalist and many evangelicals would hold to a dictation view of inspiration, or a view that most of the bible was given by dictation. | | | On the other hand, an attempt to explain away the miraculous in the Bible by redefining the miracles in naturalistic terms is an affront to inerrancy because this would assume that the Bible errs in ascribing miraculous intervention to natural events. |
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http://jollyblogger.typepad.com/jollyblogger/2004/05/evangelicalism_.html
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| | Liberal Evangelicalism |
| | With evangelicals, these pastors and teachers have emphasized the need for a personal relationship with God, the freedom of the Spirit, the authority of the Bible, the person of Jesus as God incarnate, the centrality of the cross, and the need for conversion. | | | The term refers historically to those (1) who have based their understanding of the Christian faith in the evangelical tradition of the church, but (2) who have understood their responsibility to the modern world as demanding their acceptance of a scientific world view with its specific commitment to historical and psychological methodology. | | | T G Rogers, ed., Liberal Evangelicalism; P T Forsyth, The Person and Place of Jesus Christ; D M Baillie, God was in Christ; J S Whale, Christian Doctrine; R Quebedeaux, The Young Evangelicals. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/libevang.htm
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| | Murray, Iain H. Evangelicalism Divided |
| | The idea that Christianity is a form of feeling, a life, and not a system of doctrine, is contrary to the faith of all Christians. | | | They stayed because they recognized that the church still maintained its Reformation formularies (the Articles of Religion), and these documents were sufficient to uphold the integrity of the church. | | | Along with Stott, there were a number of other important evangelicals who gradually began to assume a "wider" vision of the Church. |
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http://users.iglide.net/rjsanders/bks/murray.htm
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| | Will Success Spoil Evangelicalism? |
| | At midcentury, culturally beleaguered evangelicals often made the claim that "you can tell we represent the truth, because Jesus spoke of a little flock and Paul spoke of the despised of the world, and we are little and despised." Now evangelicals claim numbers and prosperity as the test of truth. | | | The importance of evangelicalism in the nation’s spiritual economy is clear when one considers the self-identified religious "preferences" of U.S. citizens. | | | After the 15.9-million-member Southern Baptist Convention recently passed resolutions designed to mark itself off from other churches and cultural elements, the main drafter of the new creed boastfully claimed that it was precisely these resolutions, these creedal elements, that contributed to the burgeoning prosperity of this denomination. |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1998
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| | Evangelicalism |
| | Sometimes they are known as Calvinists after the great Genevan Reformer, but in reality their allegiance is primarily to the Lord Jesus Christ, by whose prophetic office these marvelous truths are made known to us. | | | The latter espouse a very broad view of Scripture, hewing its corners and attempting to make it more "presentable" to the modern mind, not realizing that it is the modern mind who needs to be brought to conformity with the Word. | | | Their manipulation of Bible doctrine and misinterpretation throws a dark shadow over evangelicalism as a whole. |
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http://www.tecmalta.org/tft243.htm
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| | PyroManiac: Reforming Evangelicalism? |
| | William Tyndale used the expression "evangelical truth" as a synonym for the gospel. | | | By the 18th century, the adjective was being used to describe "that school of Protestants which maintains that the essence of 'the Gospel' consists in the doctrine of salvation by faith in the atoning death of Christ, and denies that either good works or the sacraments have any saving efficacy" (Oxford English Dictionary). | | | Perhaps you mean American Evangelicalism, but then those are the people who were and were stired by 9/11 to seek and find God. |
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http://phillipjohnson.blogspot.com/2005/07/reforming-evangelicalism.html
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| | Evangelicalism’s Insecure Calvinists |
| | John H. Armstrong, The Coming Evangelical Crisis: Current Challenges to the Authority of Scripture and the Gospel. | | | Stott lays out his argument for a core evangelical message in Trinitarian form: the supreme authority of the Bible as God’s Word, salvation by the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ and justification by faith, and ministry in the renewing power of the Holy Spirit. | | | • The eclipse of the institutional church: Evangelicalism, these authors assert, while profiting greatly from the rise of parachurch ministries, has also suffered from a loss of popular respect for the institutional church, many individualistic American evangelicals believing that church membership and participation is optional, to the neglect of the Christian community. |
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http://gregscouch.homestead.com/files/Selfcritique.html
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| | Neo-Evangelicalism - Characteristics and Positions |
| | Official neo-evangelical evangelism projects following this approach would be "AD 2000 Evangelism" and "Discipleship 2000," both claiming the goal of reaching all the lost with the Gospel of Jesus Christ by the year 2000. | | | Part of the immediate problem is that many so-called evangelical churches and leaders spent much of the mid-twentieth century separating themselves from those who preached separation from unbelief. | | | While many spiritual leaders in conservative evangelical circles would practice separation from apostates and Roman Catholics, virtually none would practice separation from [professing] believers who persist in sinful doctrine or sinful practice. |
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http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/neoe.htm
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| | What Will Replace Evangelicalism? » Radical Congruency |
| | At the same time, evangelicalism had a lot going for it, a lot that was good and right and faithful and effective, all at the same time. | | | At no other time in history, anywhere in the world, have people of faith done so much to make their faith real as evangelicals have done in the past century. | | | I mentioned to someone else that I think the church in the West is in an age of transition. |
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http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20041113-what-will-replace-evangelicalism
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| | NEW-EVANGELICALISM - ITS HISTORY |
| | The Methodists were not New Evangelicals when they wrote in their Articles of Religion: “...the sacrifice of Masses in the which it is commonly said that the priest doth offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, is a blasphemous fable, and dangerous deceit.” | | | It is a poor, sickly thing, born of the union of the heart of the world with the head of Christian theology--a mongrel, bastard thing with a backslidden church for its mother and the world for its father. | | | Though the term “evangelical,” like “fundamentalist,” has never had one strict established definition and has always incorporated wide latitude of belief, as a rule it traditionally described Protestants who preached the new birth and were stridently opposed to Rome. |
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http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/fundamen1.htm
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| | New Evangelicalism |
| | New Evangelicalism also, for the most part, eliminated the teaching of the pre-millenial rapture of the church in favor of a-milleniallism or post-millenialism. | | | "New Evangelicalism, beyond any question, is seeking middle ground with respect to the theological controversies...In the realms of things moral and spiritual one must be either right or wrong...the showdown at the close of the age will come in realms of black and white, not in the fog of a confused grey. | | | Hebrews 4:2 "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." |
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http://www.seekgod.ca/newism.htm
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| | Theoblogy: American Evangelicalism |
| | By a set of six sociological measurements (including robustness of faith, saliency of faith, and participation), evangelicalism is indeed thriving. | | | Smith -- in contrast to most theorists of secularization -- never thought that secularization was an invetitable outcome of modernization and the Enlightenment. | | | Smith) is a result of a power struggle; the winners, namely the power elite, were better served by not being subservient to religion. |
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http://theoblogy.blogspot.com/2005/02/american-evangelicalism.html
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| | Amazon.com: Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism: Books: George M. Marsden |
| | It covers developments in the Christian religion in America from the end of the 19th century to the latter half of the 20th century, clearly illuminating how, in America, Christianity became divided between "mainline" and "evangelical" branches, in the process, dividing American society as a whole. | | | Marsden (American church history, Duke Univ.), who is considered an expert on fundamentalism, here looks at the interrelated movements of fundamentalism and evangelicalism. | | | The book was a disappointment and for me was simply a dreary recitation of facts with nothing to give it life. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802805396?v=glance
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| | Sociology of Religion: Resurgent Evangelicalism in the United States: Mapping Cultural Change Since 1970. - book reviews |
| | In the book's closing section, Shibley addresses the question of why some evangelical churches are growing, a question not new to sociologists of religion. | | | It must be read by all sociologists of religion interested in the religious landscape of the United States, but it will be helpful to church leaders, and cultural sociologists as well. | | | The portrayal of the struggling congregations revolves around their reluctance to accept modernity and their rather negative stance toward the culture in which they live, work, and worship. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_n3_v59/ai_21206035
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| | Evangelicalism in America |
| | This explosion of evangelicalism over the past half century has come at the expense of mainline churches which, in turn, have been suffering a steady decline over the same period. | | | Most communities in America have witnessed the emergence of evangelical super churches, often with several thousand in attendance. | | | Today, third world Christians of mainline denominations are challenging the hegemony that more liberal American Protestantism had earlier exercised. |
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http://www.hartsem.edu/academic/courses/summer2005/rs685.htm
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| | NEW EVANGELICALISM |
| | (12) The belief by some evangelicals that the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope, is an evangelical. | | | (9) The willingness of evangelical publishers to publish works which allow for aspects of higher critical views of the Bible, including redaction criticism, in interpreting the life of Christ in the Gospel accounts. | | | In the rest of this paper we will consider how this movement is defined and identified by respected Bible believing men. |
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http://www.middletownbiblechurch.org/separate/newevan.htm
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| | Donald Grey Barnhouse & Neo-evangelicalism |
| | On the other hand there were many equally conscientious Christians who deemed it best to remain within their denominations and work to regain control. | | | There was a joining of minds and mood with Christians who had remained within the Liberal denominations, a "union" which finally resulted in the formation and growth of the National Association of Evangelicals. | | | -- Through the years, however, thousands of faithful evangelical believers have separated themselves from the main denominations in the wake of the Liberal piracy. |
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http://withchrist.org/MJS/neoevan1.htm
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| | TallSkinnyKiwi: Blogging Evangelicalism |
| | Jones is suggesting that blogging, as a means of self-publishing and community creation, will become essential to the formation of church communities in the future. | | | And if so, let me explain and expand | | | He may be optimistic, and he may be manifesting that evangelical crush on new technology I mentioned earlier. |
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http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2005/09/blogging_evange.html
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