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Noll, Mark A. American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction (2000) excerpt and text search; Rodriguez, Juan. "Teacher of the year." (2000) Tweed, Thomas, ed. Retelling U.S. Religious History, (1997) complete text online free; Wigger, John H.. and Nathan O. Hatch. Methodism and the Shaping of American Culture. (2001) excerpt and text search
Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844–1924), was an American healing evangelist. Her ministry style served as a model for Pentecostalism. William Mitchell Ramsay, (1851–1939), archaeologist known for his expertise in Asia Minor; R. A. Torrey (1856–1928), American evangelist, pastor and educator and one of the founders of modern evangelical ...
Today, the NCC is a joint venture of 35 Christian denominations in the United States with 100,000 local congregations and 45,000,000 adherents. Its member communions include Mainline Protestant , Eastern Orthodox , Oriental Orthodox , African-American, Evangelical and historic Peace churches.
Many denominations of Christianity exist today. Featured below are members of some of them. Lists of Catholics. List of Maronites; List of Eastern Orthodox Christians; List of Protestants List of Anglicans; List of Baptists; List of evangelical Christians; List of Mennonites; List of Methodists; List of Pentecostals List of Assemblies of God people
American Protestant religious leaders (1 C, 13 P) Pages in category "American Christian religious leaders" The following 145 pages are in this category, out of 145 total.
In the book, Niebuhr gives a history of how Christianity has responded to culture. He outlines five prevalent viewpoints: Christ against culture. For the exclusive Christian, history is the story of a rising church or Christian culture and a dying pagan civilization. Christ of culture. For the cultural Christian, history is the story of the ...
Many scholars have adopted historian David Bebbington's definition of evangelicalism. According to Bebbington, evangelicalism has four major characteristics. These are conversionism (an emphasis on the new birth), biblicism (an emphasis on the Bible as the supreme religious authority), activism (an emphasis on individual engagement in spreading the gospel), and crucicentrism (an emphasis on ...
The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States has received favorable comments from Robert Wuthnow, [3] Leigh E. Schmidt and Edward C. Mallinckrodt, [3] Gary Laderman and Goodrich C. White, [3] Laurie Maffly-Kipp and John C. Danforth, [3] Anglican & Episcopal History, George Marsden, [4] Christianity Today, [4] Booklist, [4] and Library ...