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Evangelical and Post-Evangelical Christianity
European Judaism, 2005According to recent polls by US News and World Report , there are today 119 million U.S. citizens who class themselves as 'actively believing' Christians. Of these, more than eighty million profess to attend church more than once every week. Extrapolating from this same survey, more than sixty million Americans believe their Christian faith to be the ...
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2019
Abstract Chapter 5 explores the religious, spiritual, and secular lives of Evangelical twentysomethings, who account for 30% of all twentysomethings. Using congregational ethnographies of two Evangelical churches, this chapter describes why and how religiously active Evangelicals, which includes most Evangelicals, select a church to join.
Tim Clydesdale, Kathleen Garces-Foley
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Abstract Chapter 5 explores the religious, spiritual, and secular lives of Evangelical twentysomethings, who account for 30% of all twentysomethings. Using congregational ethnographies of two Evangelical churches, this chapter describes why and how religiously active Evangelicals, which includes most Evangelicals, select a church to join.
Tim Clydesdale, Kathleen Garces-Foley
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Post‐Evangelicalism, Ex‐Evangelicalism, Progressive Evangelicalism
Religion CompassABSTRACT Evangelical disenchantment—a concept coined by historian David Hempton—is not new, but has manifested in new ways in the twenty‐first century. The departure from conservative evangelicalism by those termed ex‐ and post‐evangelicals has altered the landscape of American Christianity.
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Education and Formation for Evangelism: Evangelism and Youth
International Review of Mission, 2007When I began preparations for this presentation, I was struck by the main theme of this seminar, viz. mission as proclamation of the gospel. It was a reminder of the need for a holistic approach to what we have generally come to understand as "proclamation". For many Christians in India, both the theologically trained as well as the laity, proclamation
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2020
Evangelical Christianity in East and Southeast Asia has experienced significant growth since the 1970s, fueled by factors such as Western missions, indigenous movements, and the rise of Pentecostalism. This growth is particularly evident in countries like South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cambodia, Myanmar, and the Philippines.
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Evangelical Christianity in East and Southeast Asia has experienced significant growth since the 1970s, fueled by factors such as Western missions, indigenous movements, and the rise of Pentecostalism. This growth is particularly evident in countries like South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cambodia, Myanmar, and the Philippines.
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This chapters seeks to define Evangelicalism by adding to the well-known Bebbington quadrilateral of conversionism, biblicism, crucicentricism, and activism the further characteristics of the role of the Holy Spirit, the global nature of the movement, and the fellowship of believers.
Thomas Schirrmacher, Frank Hinkelmann
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Thomas Schirrmacher, Frank Hinkelmann
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2022
Latin American Evangelicals are a growing and heterogenous religious group with more than 100 years of missionary presence. According to Samuel Escobar, Latin American Evangelical identity is characterised by: Reformation heritage, evangelising passion, personal piety, Anabaptist posture, Puritan ethics, and the social dimension of the gospel.
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Latin American Evangelicals are a growing and heterogenous religious group with more than 100 years of missionary presence. According to Samuel Escobar, Latin American Evangelical identity is characterised by: Reformation heritage, evangelising passion, personal piety, Anabaptist posture, Puritan ethics, and the social dimension of the gospel.
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Palestinian Evangelicals and Global Evangelicalism
Abstract Given the great theological significance of the state of Israel for many evangelicals worldwide, the existence of a population of Palestinian (Israeli) evangelicals seems counterintuitive at first. This small population shares common markers of evangelicalism but due to their Palestinian identity has a difficult relationship ...openaire +1 more source
2017
Evangelical theology emphasizes a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, cultivated through prayer, Bible study, and worship, which shapes the social behaviour of its followers. Evangelicalism exists across Protestant and Anglican traditions, with Pentecostal churches being the fastest-growing and most numerous.
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Evangelical theology emphasizes a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, cultivated through prayer, Bible study, and worship, which shapes the social behaviour of its followers. Evangelicalism exists across Protestant and Anglican traditions, with Pentecostal churches being the fastest-growing and most numerous.
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2018
Millions of devotees acclaim the Nahuatl-language Nican mopohua account of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego as the foundational text of the Guadalupe tradition. A number of scholarly analyses have examined the Nican mopohua as a prime source for that tradition. But no previous study has focused on a theological examination of Luis
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Millions of devotees acclaim the Nahuatl-language Nican mopohua account of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego as the foundational text of the Guadalupe tradition. A number of scholarly analyses have examined the Nican mopohua as a prime source for that tradition. But no previous study has focused on a theological examination of Luis
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