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Since the late 19th century, some right-wing Christians have argued that the United States of America is essentially Christian in origin. They preach American exceptionalism, oppose liberal scholars, and emphasize the Christian identity of many Founding Fathers. Critics argue that many of these Christian founders actually supported the ...
In the United States, religious observance is much higher than in Europe, and the United States' culture leans conservative in comparison to other western nations, in part due to the Christian element. Liberal Christianity, exemplified by some theologians, sought to bring to churches new critical approaches to the Bible.
It soon shortened its name to the National Association of Evangelicals (NEA). There are currently 60 denominations with about 45,000 churches in the organization. The NEA is related fraternally the World Evangelical Fellowship. In 2006, 39 communions and 7 Christian organizations officially launched Christian Churches Together in the USA (CCT ...
America’s founding motto was “E Pluribus Unum” (out of one many) but in the 1950s religious zealots changed that to “in God we trust” and inserted “under God” into the secular Pledge ...
Keller, Rosemary Skinner, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Marie Cantlon, eds. Encyclopedia of Women And Religion in North America (3 vol 2006) excerpt and text search; Kidd, Thomas S. The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (2007), 412pp exxcerpt and text search; Leonard, Bill J. Baptists in America.
Christian Nationalists sometimes claim their beliefs are echoed in the Constitution and American law. They claim the Founding Fathers didn’t want a “wall of separation between church and state.”
A boy scout yawns as he holds a furled U.S. flag at an event in Maine in 1984. Credit - Ernst Haas—Getty Images. W hen speaking recently at an evangelical town hall led by Lance Wallnau, J.D ...
Watercolor representing the Second Great Awakening in 1839. The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in American Christian history.Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves of increased religious enthusiasm between the early 18th century and the late 20th century.