Christian evangelicalism

Carl F. H. Henry (January 22, 1913 - December 7, 2003) was an evangelical Christian theologian, who founded the magazine Christianity Today as a scholarly voice for evangelical Christianity and as a challenge to the liberal Christian Century. The new magazine soon outdistanced its competitor in readership, though it was not without its critics. At a luncheon of 200 Christian leaders held to honor neo-orthodox theologian Karl Barth, Henry rose and identified himself as "editor of 'Christianity Today'" before asking Barth ...

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• Carl F. H. Henry - Early years and education
• Carl F. H. Henry - Career
• Carl F. H. Henry - Bibliography

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A. A. Allen (March 27, 1911 - June 11, 1970) was born Asa A. Allen at Sulphur Rock, Arkansas. His middle name, given only as "A." on his birth certificate, was changed to "Alonso" at around age four. Allen's early life was filled with poverty, but in 1934 he was converted during a Methodist revival meeting, and began ministering with the Assemblies of God (AG or AofG) in 1936. While attending an Oral Roberts Tent revival in 1949, Allen felt a burden to reach the lost with the miracle-working power of God and he soon hit the rev ...

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• A. A. Allen - Early Life
• A. A. Allen - Early Tent Revivalist
• A. A. Allen - Arrested and Withdrawal from the Assemblies of God
• A. A. Allen - Allen's Popularity Soars
• A. A. Allen - Allen's Influence and Ministries
• A. A. Allen - Untimely Death and Conflicting Causes of Death
• A. A. Allen - Facts surrounding A A Allen's Death
• A. A. Allen - After A A Allen

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The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) is an Evangelical Protestant denomination within Christianity. It was founded by Dr. Albert Benjamin Simpson in 1887, not as a denomination, but merely an alliance to unite Christians in foreign missionary efforts. An actual denomination from this alliance emerged in the mid 1900's. The US has nearly 2,000 C&MA churches and over 300,000 members. 400 of those churches are described as intercultural. In Canada, there are 378 churches, 59 of which are multicultural, and m ...

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• Christian and Missionary Alliance - What makes C&MA different?
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - History of the denomination
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - The FourFold Gospel
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - CAMA Services
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - Prominent Members
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - Complete Statement of Faith
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - C&MA seminaries and colleges
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - American C&MA college links
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - Canadian C&MA college links
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - Notes

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Christian views of Hanukkah. During the last few decades, some Christians (such as evangelical Christians and Messianic Judaism) have re-examined the Jewish roots of their faith. As a result, some have increasingly become aware of and adopted some aspects of some Jewish holiday, but within a Christian theological framework. In the case of Hanukkah, Christians began to recognize that Jesus, in fact, observed this holiday as noted in the twenty second and twenty third verse of the tenth chapter in the Gospel of John (“And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it w ...

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William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 - 29 July 1833) was an English parliamentarian and leader of the campaign against the slave trade. Born in Hull, he was the son of a wealthy merchant who died when William was still a child. Placed under the guardianship of his uncle and aunt (a strong supporter of John Wesley), William developed an early interest in Methodism. His mother, however, was disturbed by this devel ...

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• William Wilberforce - External link

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The camp meeting is a phenomenon of American frontier Christianity. The movement of thousands of persons to what had previously been trackless wilderness in the 18th century in America had led to something of a religious vacuum. Not only were there few authorized houses of worship, there were even fewer ordained ministers to fill their pulpits. The "camp meeting" was an innovative response to this situation. Word of mouth told that there was to be a religious meeting at a certain location. Due to the primitive means of transportation, ...

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Albert Benjamin Simpson (December 15, 1843 – October 29, 1919) was a Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), an evangelical protestant denomination with an emphasis on global evangelism. Albert Benjamin Simpson - Early life and ministry. Simpson was born in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada as the third son and fourth child of James Simpson, Jr. and Janet Clark. Author Harold H. Simpson has gathered an extensive genealogy of Cave ...

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• Albert Benjamin Simpson - Early life and ministry
• Albert Benjamin Simpson - Simpson's teaching
• Albert Benjamin Simpson - Involvement in Pentecostalism
• Albert Benjamin Simpson - External link

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Reverend Ike, formally the Right Reverend Dr. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II (June 1, 1935, Ridgeland, South Carolina - ), Th.B., D.Sc.L., Ph.D., founder and pastor of the Christ United Church, is an American minister and radio evangelist. Reverend Ike's ministry reached its peak in the mid 1970s, when his weekly radio sermons were carried by hundreds of stations acros ...

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• Reverend Ike - Quotes attributed
• Reverend Ike - External link

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Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 - May 12, 1963) was an American Protestant pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his untiring work, he received two honorary doctorates. Born in La Jose (now Newburg), a tiny farming community in western Pennsylvania, his conversion experience was as a teenager in Akron, Ohio. While on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say: "If you don't know how to be saved... just call on God." Upon returning home, he ...

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• Aiden Wilson Tozer - Quotes from Tozer:

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While the status of abortion has been accepted by some liberal Christian denominations, many Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians have actively opposed both the legal right of a woman to undergo an abortion and its practice within the wider community. This stance is at odds with many people who support the right of abortion. Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians have opposed abortion mainly because of their belief in the Bible as the unchanging and inspired Word of God, as well as the interpretive framework that is used to un ...

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• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - The Bible and Hermeneutics
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Quoted Biblical passages
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Psalm 139:13-16
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Jeremiah 1:5
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Luke 1:41 and 2:12
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Psalm 137:9
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Evangelical teaching on specific situations
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - The inability of the mother to care for the child
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Pregnancy as a result of rape
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Pregnancy as a result of incest
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Severe physical and/or intellectual disability
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Social stigma
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Ectopic Pregnancies
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - In vitro fertilisation
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Embryonic Stem Cell Research
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Human Cloning
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Biblical law and Christian Reconstructionism
• Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Neoliberalism and evangelicalism

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Background Christianity Protestantism Pietism Anglicanism Arminianism Doctrinal distinctives Articles of Religion Prevenient Grace Governmental Atonement Imparted righteousness Christian perfection People Charles Wesley George Whitefield Thomas Coke Francis Asbury Richard Allen Albert C. Outler Bishops · Theologians Largest groups World Methodist Council United Methodist Ch ...

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A Bible Belt is an area in which Evangelical Protestant Christianity is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture. The best-known Bible Belt covers a number of Midwestern and Southern states in the United States; other countries, including Canada and some parts of Europe also have regions whose culture can be described in similar terms. The name derives from the (perceived) overriding importance of the Christian Bible ...

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• Bible Belt - Geography
• Bible Belt - Geographical extent
• Bible Belt - Political Cultural Context

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The term Bible Belt is used mainly, but not uniquely, by detractors of or negative anti-Protestant commentators about a people or region that is said to be very religious, perhaps too religious. The term was coined in a January 1926 edition of American Mercury by H.L. Mencken. He described Jackson, Mississippi as "in the heart of the Bible and Lynching Belt." The term is not strictly regional—like flyover country or the more positive heartland—but is often used to describe the middle of the country in a way that diminishes ...

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Bible Belt, Bible Belt - Geography, Bible Belt - Geographical extent, Bible Belt - Political Cultural Context

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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship - College Ministry. InterVarsity, in 2002-2003, had 810 undergraduate chapters on 565 college campuses around the country, with some campuses having multiple chapters with different focuses. These include multi-ethnic ministries (which include Black Student Ministries, Asian American Ministries and Latino Fellowship) and ministries for international students (about 3000 participate), sororities and fraternities. Additionally, 141 chapters are primarily oriented toward graduate students and/or faculty, and about 2000 nursing profes ...

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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship - Ministries, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship - College Ministry, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship - Missions, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship - Training, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship - External link

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Kantzer, who earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion from Harvard (1950), was a professor of biblical and systematic theology and academic dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (T.E.D.S.) from 1960-1978. There he helped to grow T.E.D.S. from a small denominational seminary into a major seminary serving the broader conservative-evangelical movement. In 1968 he also served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society. From 1977-1982 he was editor of Christianity Today magazine, and from 1982-1984 he was the president of Trinity ...

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Kenneth Kantzer, Kenneth Kantzer - Life and Career., Kenneth Kantzer - Published Works., Kenneth Kantzer - Bibliography.

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List of megachurches - United States. 10th Street Baptist Church, Washington, DC 16th Street Baptist, Birmingham, Alabama - Christopher E. Hamlin [1] Abundant Life Christian Center, La Marque, Texas - Walter Hallam [2] Abundant Life Christian Centre, Margate, Florida - Rick W. Thomas [3] Abundant Living Ministries, Pembroke Pines, Florida - Hugh Thomas [4] Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem, New York - Calvin BUtts [5] Acts Full ...

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List of megachurches, List of megachurches - North America, List of megachurches - United States, List of megachurches - South America, List of megachurches - Argentina, List of megachurches - Brazil, List of megachurches - Chile, List of megachurches - Colombia, List of megachurches - El Salvador, List of megachurches - Asia, List of megachurches - Singapore, List of megachurches - South Korea, List of megachurches - Europe, List of megachurches - U.K., List of megachurches - Ukraine, List of megachurches - Australia

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According to the documents of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, the Biblical authority for missions begins quite early in Genesis, 12:1-3, in which Abraham is blessed so that through him and his descendants, all the "peoples" of the world would be blessed. Others point to God's wish, often expressed in the Bible, that all peoples of the earth would worship Him. Therefore, Christian missions go where worship is not, in order to bring worship to God. In this view, the early historical Jewish mission is that of being a peo ...

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Mission Christian, Mission Christian - History of Christian missions, Mission Christian - Modern missionary methods and doctrines, Mission Christian - Negative effects, Mission Christian - Positive effects

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Proponents of open theism assert the following, with some variation: The concepts of omnipresence and immutability do not stem from the Bible, but from the subsequent fusion of Judeo-Christian thought with the Greek philosophy of Platonism and Stoicism, which posited an infinite God and a deterministic view of history. The God described in the Bible is the most powerful, most knowing, most loving, and most unchanging, but not omni-everything. He was shown to have limits in every degree, altho ...

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Open theism, Open theism - Arguments, Open theism - Books, Open theism - Pro, Open theism - Con, Open theism - Multiple views

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Neo-evangelicals held the view that the modernist and liberal parties in the Protestant churches had surrendered their heritage as Evangelicals by accommodating the views and values of the world. At the same time they criticized their fellow Fundamentalists, for their separatism, and their rejection of the Social gospel as it had been developed by Protestant activists of the previous century. They charged the modernists with having lost their identity as Evangelicals, and attacked the Fundamentalists as having lost the Christ-like heart of E ...

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Neo-evangelicalism, Neo-evangelicalism - History, Neo-evangelicalism - Engagement without accommodation, Neo-evangelicalism - Today, Neo-evangelicalism - Champions of Evangelicalism, Neo-evangelicalism - Scholars, Neo-evangelicalism - Evangelists, Neo-evangelicalism - Publications, Neo-evangelicalism - Seminaries, Neo-evangelicalism - Evangelical graduate schools, Neo-evangelicalism - Para church organizations, Neo-evangelicalism - Footnotes, Neo-evangelicalism - Bibliography

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Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, Association of Free Lutheran Congregations - Presidents of the AFLC, Association of Free Lutheran Congregations - External link

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