-(« GENESIS OF THE EVANGELICAL SPIRTUAL TREND IN (USA)!
-AS FAR SOME CREDIBLE SOURCES ARE CONCERNED, « TELEVANGELISM » HAS ITS ROOTS IN A TRADITION OF FERVENT EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY DATING BACK TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.FURTHERMORE, THE TERM « EVANGEICAL » ENCOMPASSES A WIDE SPECTRUM OF PROTESTANTS WHO ACTIVELLY SEEK TO PROSELYTISE AND CONVET NON- BELIEVERS.WITHIN « EVANGELICALISM » ARE TWO MAJOR CAMPS:THOSE WHO BELONG TO DENOMINATIONS THAT DO N OT STRESS A LITERAL READING OF THE BIBLE,AND THE LITERALISTS,THEMSELVES DIVIDED INTWO MAJOR GROUPS,THE « FUNDAMENTALISTS » AND THE « PENTECOSTALS »:BOTH APPLY THE SCRIPTURES TO AL LIFE’S ISSUES!MEANWHILE, « FUNDAMENTALISTS » ARE USUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH « BAPTIST CHURCHES »,WHICH TEACH THAT THE ABILITY TO PERFORM MIRACLES OF HEALING AND « TO SPEAK IN TONGUES »(UNKNOWN LANGUAGES) ENDED IN « NEW TESTAMENT » TIMES. »PENTECOSTALS »,ON THE OTHER HAND,BELIEVE THAT THE SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES DESCRIBED IN THE SECOND CHAPTER OF « BOOK OF ACTS » ARE MEANT FOR MODERN CHRISTIANS AS WELL!
-(« EVANGELICALS AND POLITICS »).
HISTORICALLY, »EVANGELICALS » SHIED AWAY FROM POLITICAL PARTICIPATION PARTLY BECAUSE OF THEIR THEOLOGICAL PRIORITIES AND PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE RIDICULE HEAPED ON THEM BY SECULAR SOCIETY.MOREOVER,PUBLIC DERISION OF « FUNDAMENTALISTS » AND « PENTECOSTALS » REACHED A PEAK AFTER THE FAMIOUS (1925) « MONKEY TRIAL » IN WHICH SCHOL TEACHER « JHON SCOPES » WAS FOUND GUILTY OF TEACHING EVOLUTION IN « TENNESSE »;DOWN THE LINE, HE WAS LATER ACQUITTED ON APPEAL!
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