Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, including campaigns for social hygiene against venereal diseases.

There’s an ambivalence embedded in this identity, even if she and others are just beginning to figure out what it means beyond deconstructing white evangelicalism’s fusion of faith and right-wing politics.

Chastain spoke with Salon about his story and why evangelicalism needs to be understood more as an identity than a theology.

From this wreckage has emerged a version of evangelicalism that sometimes seems like a brand-new religion, with Trump at the center of it.

I had some wonderful experiences and some awful ones, but the upshot was that I just was not a good fit for Evangelicalism.

The author might have explored how white evangelicalism was different before its hard-right turn in defense of racial segregation in the late 1970s.

You point to specific efforts to reform evangelicalism from within over the years.

Outside of megachurches, the statistics for North America are pretty clear – for my generation and younger, there’s a rush at evangelicalism’s exit doors.

Still I can’t talk about the gifts of evangelicalism without a serious engagement with the sins of our community – for example, imperialistic mission or oppression of LGBTQ people.

Susan Cain thoughtfully notes, in a book called Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, that “evangelicalism has taken the extrovert ideal to its logical extreme…if you don’t love Jesus out loud, them it must not be real love.

But the larger impact will surely be felt within evangelicalism more broadly, where Hybels has been a longtime champion of women at the highest levels of Christian ministry, including preaching, leading churches, and serving as elders.

But within evangelicalism, his fame and influence are hard to overstate.

Dallas Morning News, for Wehmeyer's column and the one by David Roark that challenge the entrenched thinking that has married evangelicalism to Republican politics.

Evangelicalism is transforming parties and possibly the Catholic Church.

Evangelicalism’s embrace of a new age of ignorance, blames homosexuality for Harvey’s rage rather than considering the scientific consequences climate change has on the number of increasing storms of greater and greater ferocity.

If Rod doesn’t think an ontological de-conversion happens for someone leaving Orthodoxy for evangelicalism, then we might consider dropping the de-conversion language altogether.

They may be right about American Evangelicalism, but for all the wrong reasons.

Under the influence of this mentality, evangelicalism turns from a faith into a siege-mentality interest group that reveres a pagan immoralist.

All of these churches have more ancient doctrinal statements asserting the authority of scripture, but may interpret these statements in such a way as to allow for a very broad range of teaching—from evangelicalism to skepticism.

Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism.