Evangelical Protestantism
An Evangelical Protestantism is a Christian Protestantism that affirms the centrality of being “born again", in which an individual experiences personal conversion; the authority of the Bible as God's revelation to humanity (biblical inerrancy); and spreading the Christian message.
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- See: Nondenominational Christianity, Mainline Protestant, Interdenominationalism, Protestantism, Born Again, Biblical Inerrancy, Evangelism.
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- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism Retrieved:2023-4-23.
- Evangelicalism also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being “born again", in which an individual experiences personal conversion; the authority of the Bible as God's revelation to humanity (biblical inerrancy); and spreading the Christian message.[1] [2] [3] The word evangelical comes from the Greek (euangelion) word for “good news".
Its origins are usually traced to 1738, with various theological streams contributing to its foundation, including Pietism and Radical Pietism, Puritanism, Quakerism, Presbyterianism and Moravianism (in particular its bishop Nicolaus Zinzendorf and his community at Herrnhut).[4][5] [6] Preeminently, John Wesley and other early Methodists were at the root of sparking this new movement during the First Great Awakening. Today, evangelicals are found across many Protestant branches, as well as in various denominations around the world, not subsumed to a specific branch. Among leaders and major figures of the evangelical Protestant movement were Nicolaus Zinzendorf, George Fox, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Billy Graham, Bill Bright, Harold Ockenga, Gudina Tumsa, John Stott, Francisco Olazábal, William J. Seymour, Martyn Lloyd-Jones.[4][6][7] [8]
The movement has long had a presence in the Anglosphere before spreading further afield in the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries. The movement gained great momentum during the 18th and 19th centuries with the Great Awakenings in Great Britain and the United States.
In 2016, there were an estimated 619 million evangelicals in the world, meaning that one in four Christians would be classified as evangelical.[9] The United States has the largest proportion of evangelicals in the world.[10] American evangelicals are a quarter of that nation's population and its single largest religious group.[11] As a transdenominational coalition, evangelicals can be found in nearly every Protestant denomination and tradition, particularly within the Reformed (Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, Congregational), Plymouth Brethren, Baptist, Methodist (Wesleyan–Arminian), Lutheran, Moravian, Free Church, Mennonite, Quaker, Pentecostal/charismatic and non-denominational churches.[12] [13] [14] [8]
- Evangelicalism also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being “born again", in which an individual experiences personal conversion; the authority of the Bible as God's revelation to humanity (biblical inerrancy); and spreading the Christian message.[1] [2] [3] The word evangelical comes from the Greek (euangelion) word for “good news".
- ↑ "Evangelicals and Evangelicalism". University of Southern California. Retrieved May 11, 2022. At its most basic level, evangelical Christianity is characterized by a belief in the literal truth of the Bible, a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ," the importance of encouraging others to be "born again" in Jesus and a lively worship culture. This characterization is true regardless the size of the church, what the people sitting in the pews look like or how they express their beliefs."
- ↑ Sweet, Leonard I. (1997). The Evangelical Tradition in America. Mercer University Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-86554-554-0. ...evangelical Christianity, which united by a common authority (the Bible), shared experience (new birth/conversion), and commitment to the same sense of duty (obedience to Christ through evangelism and benevolence)."
- ↑ Kidd, Thomas S. (September 24, 2019). Who Is an Evangelical?. Yale University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-300-24141-9. What does it mean to be evangelical? The simple answer is that evangelical Christianity is the religion of the born again."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Christian Scholar's Review, Volume 27. Hope College. 1997. p. 205. This was especially true of proto-evangelical movements like the Quakers, organized as the Religious Society of Friends by George Fox in 1668 as a group of Christians who rejected clerical authority and taught that the Holy Spirit guided.
- ↑ Brian Stiller, Evangelicals Around the World: A Global Handbook for the 21st Century, Thomas Nelson, USA, 2015, pp. 28, 90.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Angell, Stephen Ward; Dandelion, Pink (April 19, 2018). The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism. Cambridge University Press. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-107-13660-1.
- ↑ Manual of Faith and Practice of Central Yearly Meeting of Friends. Central Yearly Meeting of Friends. 2018. p. 2.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Wood, A. Skevington (1984). "The Lord's Watch: the Moravians". Christian History Institute. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
- ↑ Loup Besmond de Senneville, la-croix.com, Dans le monde, un chrétien sur quatre est évangélique Archived November 11, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, France, January 25, 2016
- ↑ How Many Evangelicals Are There?, Wheaton College: Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, archived from the original on January 30, 2016
- ↑ "Religion in America: US Religious groups". Pew Research Center.
- ↑ Angell, Stephen Ward; Dandelion, Pink (April 19, 2018). The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism. Cambridge University Press. p. 290. ISBN 978-1-107-13660-1. Contemporary Quakers worldwide are predominately evangelical and are often referred to as the Friends Church."
- ↑ Wilkinson, John Laurence (1993). Church in Black and White. Saint Andrew Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-3-89144-301-9. This powerful spiritual awakening resulted in an amazing worldwide upsurge that firmly planted evangelical Christianity in the Caribbean, and the Moravian Church as an important element in West Indian life. Next came the Methodist..."
- ↑ : "A new dynamic emerged in the last half of the twentieth century as the charismatic and Pentecostal movements also began to participate in the larger evangelical world. By the end of the century, observers would often describe the evangelical movement in terms of Reformed, Baptist, Wesleyan, and charismatic traditions."