Westminster and Evangelicalism

Westminster Theological Seminary ^ | August 07, 2008 | David B. Garner

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What is evangelicalism? Who are evangelicals? Because evangelicalism has experienced a metamorphosis, the answer to these questions is more complicated than one might guess. In the term’s early use in 18th and 19th century in North America, where evangelicalism was more narrowly defined by revivalism and its associated emphasis on personal conversion, evangelicalism became identified with the largest Protestant movement in North America. In the wake of the infiltration of theological liberalism into the mainline churches and the massive immigration of foreigners of diverse religious background, the virtually ubiquitous force of evangelicalism tempered, yet its arteries extended so as to influence a wide panorama of churches and para-church groups.

[topcat54]

Good introductory remarks to the question of what is a confessional evangelical in the context of Westminster Theological Seminary committment to the good news (evangel) of Jesus Christ.

"No matter how much evangelicalism morphs, the parameters of Westminster Reformed Orthodoxy guide and preserve the Seminary’s theological commitments on Scripture and any other doctrinal matter on which the Westminster Standards speak."

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[bperiwinkle7]

read later, too.
Thanks for posting.