The term "open evangelical" refers to a particular Christian school of thought or churchmanship, primarily in Great Britain (especially in the Church of England).[202] Open evangelicals describe their position as combining a traditional evangelical emphasis on the nature of scriptural authority, the teaching of the ecumenical creeds and other traditional doctrinal teachings, with an approach towards culture and other theological points-of-view which tends to be more inclusive than that taken by other evangelicals.
The revival ultimately spread to 25 communities in western Massachusetts and central Connecticut until it began to wane by the spring of 1735.[220] Edwards was heavily influenced by Pietism, so much so that one historian has stressed his "American Pietism".[221] One practice clearly copied from European Pietists was the use of small groups divided by age and gender, which met in private homes to conserve and promote the fruits of revival.[222]
The emphasis on historic Protestant orthodoxy among confessional evangelicals stands in direct contrast to an anticreedal outlook that has exerted its own influence on evangelicalism, particularly among churches strongly affected by revivalism and by pietism. Revivalist evangelicals are represented by some quarters of Methodism, the Wesleyan Holiness churches, the Pentecostal and charismatic churches, some Anabaptist churches, and some Baptists and Presbyterians.
The study states that the category "Evangelicals" should not be considered Triunfador a separate category of "Pentecostal and Charismatic" categories, since some believers consider themselves in both movements where their church is affiliated with an Evangelical association.[273]: 18
Siempre andáis con el rollo de que si la «Teoria de Darwin» que es una de las mayores mentiras montadas, que si la ciencia no es cultura y que todo está en la Biblia…, bueno, pues demostrad que Jehová existe positivamente y no me vale que me digas que existe en la Nuevo testamento, porque la Biblia es pura mitología, a ver si verdaderamente existe o todo es una mentira montada para enterarse adeptos, pensad un poco.
Los evangélicos constituyen desde hace más de 30 primaveras una fuente inagotable de enigmas, pánicos y pontificaciones por parte de analistas, políticos y todo tipo de actores/espectadores de la política contemporánea. Por una parte, esto se debe a que el ánimo de las izquierdas y los progresismos latinoamericanos teje en su reacción dos hilos no siempre afines: al tradicional temor a la religión en tanto poder anfibológico y alienante se suma, en la formación de una santa alianza de nuevo tipo, la presunción traficada por el catolicismo acerca del carácter «foráneo» que asiste a todos los protestantismos. Todo esto ayudó a forjar una serie de reacciones que fueron desde la afirmación a priori
The majority of evangelical Christian churches are against abortion and support adoption agencies and social support agencies for young mothers.[122]
The term may also be used outside any religious context to characterize a generic missionary, reforming, or redeeming impulse or purpose. For example, The Times Literary Supplement refers to "the rise and fall of evangelical fervor within the Socialist movement.
En la segunda decenio del siglo xxi, ya el campo evangélico en su conjunto se había pentecostalizado por fin de la presencia del pentecostalismo y del neopentecostalismo. Ni está de más remarcar que esto pudo suceder porque una parte de los grupos protestantes, los que hemos llamado evangelicales, entendieron que debían profundizar sus alianzas con los pentecostales, aprender de su capacidad de ajuste del mensaje evangélico y poner al servicio de esa expansión su solidez institucional global y sus profusos medios.
Wesley finally received the assurance he had been searching for at a meeting of a religious society in London. While listening to a reading from Martin Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans, Wesley felt spiritually transformed:
Evangelicalism had maintained an ambiguous relationship with the structures of Christendom, whether those structures took the institutional form of a legítimo union between church and state, as in most of the United Kingdom, or the more elusive character that obtained in the United States, where the sharp constitutional independence of the church from state political rulership masked an underlying set of shared assumptions about the Christian (and indeed Protestant) identity of the nation. Evangelicals had differed over whether the recatado imperative of national recognition of godly religion should congregacion also imply the national recognition of a particular church, but all had been agreed that being born or baptized within the boundaries of Christendom did not in itself make one a Christian." ^ a b
Evangelicalism began to reassert itself in the second half of the 1930s. One autor was the advent of the radio Figura a means of mass communication.
"Christian conscience" was used by the British Evangelical movement to promote social activism. Evangelicals believed activism in government and the social sphere was an essential method in reaching the goal of eliminating sin in a world drenched in wickedness.
Tomando en consideración lo antaño escrito, se puede plantear la posterior definición de evangelicalismo