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The African American Review notes the important role Christian revivalism in the black church played in the Civil Rights Movement. [76] Martin Luther King Jr., an ordained Baptist minister, was a leader of the American civil rights movement and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a Christian Civil Rights organization. [77]
Outlets such as Christianity Today and Religion News Service have covered the movement's impact among congregations. [17] [13]In 2017, Ed Stetzer wrote that Christians should repent of spreading false conspiracy theories and fake news online, which he says "directly violates Scripture's prohibition from bearing false witness against our neighbors".
Postchristianity [8] is the loss of the primacy of the Christian worldview in public affairs, especially in the Western world where Christianity had previously flourished, in favor of alternative worldviews such as secularism, [9] nationalism, [10] environmentalism, [11] neopaganism, [12] and organized (sometimes militant [13]) atheism; [14] as well as other ideologies that are no longer ...
"Cafeteria Christianity" is a derogatory term to accuse other Christian individuals or denominations of selecting which Christian doctrines they will follow, and which they will not. [ 12 ] The related term "cafeteria Catholicism" is a pejorative term applied to Catholics who dissent from Roman Catholic moral teaching on issues such as abortion ...
Christian reconstructionism is a fundamentalist Calvinist theonomic movement. [1] It developed primarily under the direction of R. J. Rushdoony, Greg Bahnsen and Gary North [2] and has had an important influence on the Christian right in the United States.
The religions of the world are divided into two groups: those that actively seek new followers (missionary religions like Christianity) and those that do not (non-missionary religions). This classification dates back to a lecture given by Max Müller in 1873 and is based on whether or not a religion seeks to gain new converts.
Revivalist postmillennialism is a form of the doctrine held by the Puritans and some today that teaches that the millennium will come about not from Christians changing society from the top down (that is, through its political and legal institutions) but from the bottom up at the grass roots level (that is, through changing people's hearts and ...
The religious perspectives on Jesus vary among world religions. [1] Jesus' teachings and the retelling of his life story have significantly influenced the course of human history, and have directly or indirectly affected the lives of billions of people, including non-Christians.