{"id":760,"date":"2010-11-07T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2010\/11\/the-dawn-of-the-golden-age-of-evangelicalism.html"},"modified":"2010-11-07T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T18:39:07","slug":"the-dawn-of-the-golden-age-of-evangelicalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2010\/11\/the-dawn-of-the-golden-age-of-evangelicalism.html","title":{"rendered":"The Dawn of the Golden Age of Evangelicalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Evangelical.” This name has been the triumphant success of
\nChristianity for some and the bastion of hate and hypocrisy for others. Evangelical
\nnames include Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitfield in its beginning
\nduring the eighteenth century, and modern names like James Dobson, Ted Haggard
\nand Rick Warren. Time Magazine<\/a> even dedicated a cover article on The Most Influential Evangelicals in America.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>This is an interesting topic for me because it has shaped
\nthe Christian values I hold today. Some of them good others, not so much. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain<\/a>,<\/i> by D. W. Bebbington<\/a> is a book that chronicles the beginning of Evangelicalism from 1730-1980.<\/p>\n

When you think of Evangelicals what do you think of? Do you know what marks<\/i> them? What they believe? They are basically four tenants: <\/p>\n

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