Es cierto que algunos de los que llevan la calificativo de "evangélico" a menudo encajan en el modelo pesimista que ha llegado a estar asociado con el término. Y con demasiada frecuencia, voces que dicen departir en nombre de todos los evangélicos difunden un mensaje que se parece menos al de Redentor y más al de un programa político o una cruzada cultural.
There was a change in patterns of piety, affecting devotional and practical life in all its departments. The shift, in fact, was responsible for creating in Evangelicalism a new movement and not merely a variation on themes heard since the Reformation.[219]
, que llegaron a la región en el siglo xix y quedaron circunscriptos a las comunidades de migrantes, dada su poca gusto o efectividad evangelizadora, pero igualmente debido a que la íntima vinculación entre las naciones de América Latina y el catolicismo se tradujo en una musculoso restricción reglamento y cultural a la pluralización del campo religioso desde el punto de apariencia permitido e institucional.
El pensamiento evangélico ha afectado a prácticamente todos los rincones de la sociedad occidental moderna. Fueron los cristianos evangélicos los que dieron al mundo del arte pintores y escultores destacados como Botticelli y Rafael.
The start of the 19th century saw an increase in missionary work and many of the major missionary societies were founded around this time (see Timeline of Christian missions). Both the Evangelical and high church movements sponsored missionaries.
Evangelicalism emerged in the 18th century,[204] first in Britain and its North American colonies. Nevertheless, there were earlier developments within the larger Protestant world that preceded and influenced the later evangelical revivals. According to religion scholar Randall Balmer, Evangelicalism resulted "from the confluence of Pietism, Presbyterianism, and the vestiges of Puritanism. Evangelicalism picked up the peculiar characteristics from each strain – warmhearted spirituality from the Pietists (for instance), doctrinal precisionism from the Presbyterians, and individualistic introspection from the Puritans".
Many Protestants came from a large German immigrant community, but they were seldom engaged in proselytism and grew mostly by natural increase.
Diferencia entre protestantismo y catolicismo: claves para entender las corrientes del cristianismo occidental.
Las reacciones a la expresión "evangélicos" pueden ser muy fuertes: “¿Quizá no odian a las mujeres y a los homosexuales?” “¿No son esas las personas que tienen miedo de la ciencia y el avance social?” "¿No son los que siempre piensan que su camino es el único camino correcto?”
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 find this preface to the Epistle to the Romans, Wesley felt spiritually transformed:
Crucicentrism is the centrality that evangelicals give to the Atonement, the saving death and the resurrection of Jesus, that offers forgiveness of sins and new life.
During the 17th century, Pietism emerged in Europe Campeón a movement for the revival of piety and devotion within the Lutheran church. Vencedor a protest against "cold orthodoxy" or against an overly formal and rational Christianity, Pietists advocated for an experiential religion that stressed high honesto standards both for clergy and for lay people.
Las ofrendas y el diezmo ocupan mucho tiempo en los servicios.[200] Las colectas de ofrendas son múltiples o separadas en varios canastos o sobres con el fine de estimular las contribuciones de los fieles.
In 1947 Harold Ockenga coined the term neo-evangelicalism to identify a movement distinct from fundamentalism. The neo-evangelicals had three broad characteristics that distinguished them from the conservative fundamentalism of the ACCC: