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Righteous Discontent: The Woman's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 (Harvard UP, 1993) Hill, Samuel, et al. Encyclopedia of Religion in the South (2005), comprehensive coverage; Hutchison William R. Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions. (1987).
Pilgrims Going to Church, a 1867 depiction of Puritans in the New England colonies, by George Henry Boughton.. Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's population (or 141 million people) in 2019. [1]
Geneva became the unofficial capital of the Protestant movement, led by the Frenchman, Jean Calvin, until his death in 1564 (when Calvin's ally, William Farel, assumed the spiritual leadership of the group). The Reformation foundations engaged with Augustinianism. Both Luther and Calvin thought along lines linked with the theological teachings ...
The First Great Awakening was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept through Protestant Europe and British America, especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism. It resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of deep personal revelation of their ...
The Great Awakening marked the emergence of Anglo-American evangelicalism as a trans-denominational movement within the Protestant churches. In the United States, the term Great Awakening is most often used, while in the United Kingdom, the movement is referred to as the Evangelical Revival. [1]
Many of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the 17th century by men and women, who, in the face of European religious persecution, refused to compromise passionately held religious convictions (largely stemming from the Protestant Reformation which began c. 1517) and fled Europe.
[8] [9] In the late 19th and early 20th century, most major American Protestant denominations started overseas missionary activity. The " Mainline Protestant " denominations promoted the " Social Gospel " in the early 20th century, calling on Americans to reform their society; the demand for prohibition of liquor was especially strong.
An event at Gateway Church, an Evangelical megachurch in Texas. In the United States, evangelicalism is a movement among Protestant Christians who believe in the necessity of being born again, emphasize the importance of evangelism, and affirm traditional Protestant teachings on the authority as well as the historicity of the Bible. [1]