The word evangelical was used during the Reformation and applied to the churches of the Protestant Reformation and their teaching, especially the Lutheran evangelische church. But the origins of modern evangelicalism, as it is generally understood in the English-speaking world, are to be found in the revivals in the North Atlantic region in theContinue reading “The application of the word evangelical”
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How the term Evangelical has grown to blur theology and ideology
In the 19th century several lay preachers who taught a non-trinitairan Biblical faith, used printed media to spread the Good News of the coming Kingdom of God, by means of tracts and pamphlets, in times that evangelicalism became deeply intertwined with a certain strain of conservative politics, to end up in the 21st century where conservative evangelists became fundamentalists totally taken by GOP politics and blurring the lines between theology and ideology.
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