What Is Evangelicalism?

Evangelical Distinctives: Other Views What Is Evangelicalism? A simple definition based in doctrine, history, or sociology won’t do. But a vibrant stream really does exist. Bruce Hindmarsh

Evangelicalism is one of the largest and most dynamic forms of Christianity in the modern world, but there is an amorphous quality to many words that end with the suffix “-ism,” and “evangelicalism” is no exception. “Evangelicalism” does not have the hard and crisp denotation of a concrete noun such as “Jesuit.” This confusion goes back to lexical roots. The English language uses the Anglo-Saxon noun “gospel” for the Greek “evangel” ...

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