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Who Are Evangelicals? "Twenty-three percent of Americans don’t all look, vote, or pray the same."

By Filings on Fri, 02/28/25
Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism
Evangelical Identity
Church History
American Culture

“The first group of people to claim evangelical as a noun was the Evangelical Voluntary Church Association in England in the 1830s…. In the US, 100 years later, the evangelist Billy Graham started using the word as a term for people who supported his ministry.” - C.Today

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TylerR

NewKidd's book

Mon, 03/03/25

Thomas Kidd’s little book Who is an Evangelical is a good resource that offers a traditional answer with which I agree. On a more provocative note, historian Matthew Sutton has recently published an article in which he argues evangelicalism is actually a post-war religio-political coalition that has little to do with theology. You should read the article.

Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.

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  • Thinking about that 'Define evangelical' thing, with Andrew Walker, Ryan Burge (and Mark Noll)
  • Why Even Call Them Evangelical?

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