Posted on 11/12/2013 1:54:03 PM PST by Alex Murphy
Aren't the Clintons American Protestants?
Luke 18:8
However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
Well...
According to SOME FR catholics talking about OTHER catholics...
John Dewey ( October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founders of functional psychology. A well-known public intellectual, he was also a major voice of progressive education and liberalism.[2][3] Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education, he also wrote about many other topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, art, logic, social theory, and ethics.
Known for his advocacy of democracy, Dewey considered two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—as being major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality. Dewey asserted that complete democracy was to be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by ensuring that there exists a fully formed public opinion, accomplished by effective communication among citizens, experts, and politicians, with the latter being accountable for the policies they adopt.[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey
OUCH!
There must be a LOT of AMISH Christians on FR these days!
Bigger pockets
Now THERE is a title that most MORMONs would fight you over!
Good eye...
AMEN!!
And LDS, Inc. goes by this same playbook; well... the FIRST part of it anyway.
Big Pockets; again...
Well said!
Well; at one time they were seen within a close proximity to a bible.
I've not seen much evidence these days...
I never have, but there are millions of liberal/democrat American Protestants.
They don't worship the same God we do. Their god evolved from a man.
The article's focus is on American Protestant Evangelicals, not that or the Clintons. (How many evangelical senators can your namem, versus Catholics ones?) For unlike RCs who are stuck with the majority of their members being liberal - unless they want to be labelled as schismatics or heretics - we can leave liberal churches to fellowship in conservative evangelical ones.
Anyone can claim to be a Protestant, Evangelical, Catholic, etc. Actions speak louder than words. There are millions of liberal/democrats from all religions claiming to be Christians.
Martin Luther referred to the evangelische Kirche or evangelical Church to distinguish Protestants from Catholics in the Roman Catholic Church.[8][9] In Germany, Switzerland and Denmark, and especially among Lutherans, the term has continued to be used in a broad sense.[10] This can be seen in the names of certain Lutheran denominations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, and the Evangelical Church in Germany. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism
However, more modern (1700+ Evangelicalism was a movement much in response to institutionalized Christianity and its offspring, liberalism with its revisionist Bible scholarship.
More from above documented source:
Evangelicalism is a world-wide Protestant Christian religious movement that began in the 1730s with the emergence of the Methodists in England. The movement became significant in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th centuries. Pietism, Nicolaus Zinzendorf and the Moravian Church, Presbyterianism and Puritanism have influenced Evangelicalism.
The earliest leaders included John Wesley, George Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards in the English-speaking world. The United States has the largest concentration of Evangelicals by country, with roughly a quarter of the world's Evangelicals (over 90 million). Many Evangelicals now live outside the English-speaking world, and over 42 million live in Brazil alone.[1] The movement continues to draw adherents globally in the 21st century, especially in the developing world.
D.W. Cloud wrote: "In the first half of the 20th century, evangelicalism in America was largely synonymous with fundamentalism. George Marsden in Reforming Fundamentalism (1995) writes, "There was not a practical distinction between fundamentalist and evangelical: the words were interchangeable" (p. 48). When the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) formed in 1942, for example, participants included such fundamentalist leaders as Bob Jones, Sr., John R. Rice, Charles Woodbridge, Harry Ironside, and David Otis Fuller.
By the mid-1950s, largely due to the ecumenical evangelism of Billy Graham, the terms Evangelicalism and fundamentalism began to refer to two different approaches. Fundamentalism aggressively attacked its liberal enemies; Evangelicalism downplayed liberalism and emphasized outreach and conversion of new members.[16]
Religion scholar Randall Balmer says that:
Evangelicalism itself, I believe, is a quintessentially North American phenomenon, deriving as it did from the confluence of Pietism, Presbyterianism, and the vestiges of Puritanism. Evangelicalism picked up the peculiar characteristics from each strain – warmhearted spirituality from the Pietists (for instance), doctrinal precisionism from the Presbyterians, and individualistic introspection from the Puritans – even as the North American context itself has profoundly shaped the various manifestations of evangelicalism: fundamentalism, neo-evangelicalism, the holiness movement, Pentecostalism, the charismatic movement, and various forms of African-American and Hispanic evangelicalism."
...some conservative Evangelicals[which?] believe the label has broadened too much beyond its more limiting traditional distinctives..
Which does not help the polemic behind your question, while the statistical evidence over the years from recognized agencies testify to Catholics being the most liberal versus being evangelical.
The difference doesn’t bother me. It’s the claim they are Christians when plainly so many only mouth the word but don’t practice.
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