Evangelicalism
A living tradition within Protestantism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Evangelicalism is a living tradition within Protestantism. Also written evangelical Protestantism, neo-evangelicalism.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Britannica notes that in the Reformation era 'Evangelical' distinguished followers of Luther from the Reformed; in the United States the term applies to a movement that emerged from the fundamentalist controversy, retaining fundamental Christian beliefs while engaging the wider culture. Organisational unity came with the founding of the National Association of Evangelicals in 1942. No founding year for the movement as such is asserted.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Evangelicalism.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-evangelicalism.
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title = {Evangelicalism},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.