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To: bimboeruption
Protestant, Reformed, Presbyterian, Reconstructionist, etc.

Every Christian body that's not Roman Catholic, nor Orthodox, nor Coptic, is "Evangelical".

French usage, where they fought the so-called "Religious Wars" of the 1500s, is to refer to all Protestant, etc. bodies as "Evangelical" ~ and I think they know what they're talking about.

It's only American news media who are unable to accept the fact that Protestantism is real and diverse.

Some confusion arose during the Thirty Years War when it was necessary to differentiate between the two Protestant factions, one of which was pretty much entirely Lutheran and the other Reformed.

We unfortunately have "some" who want the term "Evangelical" to be restricted to the Pentecostals ~

57 posted on 04/09/2009 8:14:50 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
We unfortunately have "some" who want the term "Evangelical" to be restricted to the Pentecostals ~

Even within the so called 'Protestant' denominations there is no consensus to whom the word 'Evangelical' applies. And there is even varying degrees to which they disagree on denominations and doctrine. So if a disagreement arises then a new 'denomination' is opened.

My surprise when I actually started paying attention to the politics of different denominations was how closely so many adhere to the image of Bama's community activism as being 'Jesus' like. And that cuts across all denominations. And these that are first democrat voters would never accept there is any conflict in their religious doctrine and liberalism.

62 posted on 04/09/2009 8:40:58 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Bama and Company are reenacting the Pharaoh as told by Moses in Genesis!!!!!)
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