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Questions tagged [evangelicalism]

Evangelicalism is a branch of Christianity with an emphasis on personal conversion, biblical authority and proclamation of the gospel.

See Wikipedia for more information.

Use this tag for all questions about Evangelicalism, or to indicate that an answer from the Evangelical perspective is required.

Use the 'evangelism' tag for questions about proclaiming the Christian message.

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What is the theological significance of the label "Christian", according to evangelicals?

Recently, I have noticed a trend here of people fighting to deny self-identifying Christians who deny parts of the Nicene creed the label Christian. I am of course talking about LDS and I guess the part that is denied is consubstantiality(??).…
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Does anyone have a good definition of "Evangelical"?

I know the word itself means "of or related to the gospel." That's not what I'm talking about. I mean, when the term is used to refer to a subset of Christians, what are the characteristics being implied? What is the criteria used to determine…
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Did the American Evangelical Church Excommunicate Ted Haggard after his shenanigans?

Wikipedia says: On November 3, 2006, Haggard's resignation of leadership of the National Association of Evangelicals was accepted. But my question is: Did the American Evangelical Church excommunicate Ted Haggard after his shenanigans?
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