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To: muawiyah
ALL Protestant churches are "Evangelical".

What's your definition of "Evangelical"?

55 posted on 04/09/2009 8:07:38 PM PDT by bimboeruption ((Clinging to my Bible and my HK.))
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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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