Evangelicalism

particularly important. First, compare and contrast the views regarding the nature and authority of Scripture with reference to these three theological movements: There are three theological perspectives on scripture worth noting they are Liberalism, Evangelicalism, and Neo-Orthodoxy.…

redeeming work, the need to evangelize the world, and that the church is made up of believers dwelling in the holy spirit. These convictions are similar to the classical protestant doctrines that were a characteristic of the protestant reformation. Evangelicalism in America underwent fundamentalism that made the miraculous new birth more acceptable in the American society. At this time of the twentieth century, America had a large number of immigrants that led to modernists who started declaring…

In “A Shopkeeper’s Millennium” Paul Johnson asserts that the tensions amongst the classes propelled American society in Rochester, New York to the increased spiritual interest of an American revivalism. Johnson refutes the popular claim which reasons that American revivalism spawned out of the independent instability which resided in society saying: “...historians of religion generalize that revivals represented a quest for community or emotional stability among a nation of rootless…

provide a short biography of each man with discussions of their contributions. Also, I will compare and contrast their contributions and offer a short discussion of some of the other leaders who plated a lesser role. Finally, I will explain how evangelicalism began during the First Great…

The Article “We Don’t Do Empire” by Bernard Porter discusses the idea of modern imperialism in America and how it compares to Britain’s imperialistic ways. Bernard Porter uses this article to discuss just how similar and different our foreign policies are to those of the British back in the 1800s. Presidents and people have been indenial of such claims, but Porter’s article makes it known that we may not have a reason to deny these claims after all. Though many of these claims can be supported,…

disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” Ladd supports this by stating, “Without question Ladd’s theology reflects the orientation of a specific interpretive community, that known widely as ‘Evangelicalism.’” The Gospels are designed for sharing with all who have an ear to hear. With the comparison of the four Gospels complements one another through the teachings of Jesus. Matthew, Mark, and Luke are considered the Synoptic Gospels…

see the inherited ideas of sermons come alive in ways that would compel the rapidly changing landscape of America. The book is comprised of an introduction as well as fifteen chapters outlining the life, work, and impact George Whitefield had on evangelicalism. This paper will summarize the contents and provide insight…

1. The Victorian era, named after Queen Victoria, held many contradictory ideas and principles, including those of the queen herself. “An icon of motherhood, she [Queen Victoria] detested pregnancy, childbirth and babies” (453). This quote from the text shows that even in the things that Queen Victoria represents, she was not always so forthcoming about actually liking them. Another example to further illustrate this is, “the most powerful woman on earth, she denounced ‘this mad wicked folly of…

In the annals of American religious history, spiritualism sits uncomfortably alongside fundamentalism and other conventional forms of religion that command largest portion of scholars’ attention. Ann Braude’s Radical Spirits was one of the first narratives written that documents this important but slighted movement. To the surprise of both nineteenth-century observers and contemporary scholars alike, spiritualists were consumed by the prospect of communication with the dead. Braude provides…

As it is clear in the whole life of this work, the most prominent changes brought by the industrial revolution are more social and human ones than economic. Social conditions and British people‟s state of being did not know stability from the very beginning of the industrialization to the late Victorian age. The economic and materialistic results of the industrial revolution may be considered, because of its influential impact, as causes, more than consequences themselves, for social and human…