Charismatic movements

He refers to the “evangelical political playbook,” and he discusses evangelical political activity primarily in terms of a struggle for power. .... 2 cups of Patriotism, a dash of outspoken support for traditional values, a teaspoon of heterosexual marriage, and a pinch of charisma; stir thoroughly, preheat the oven ...

Their ranks were swelling due to a mid-century revival in charismatic Christianity and the dawn of televangelism, but they had no place in American ... Robertson had a ground-level view of evangelicals' reality, having been a movement preacher for decades and witnessed countless sermons and ...

Over time, as described by his close associate A. Larry Ross, Graham became the closest thing to an official spokesman for this movement. It is true that Graham did not single-handedly rescue evangelicalism from fundamentalism, but his contribution remains unmatched. The question now is whether a ...

Notably missing among the Christian churches listed in the article are leaders from the various charismatic, Baptist and Pentecostal groups. ... to prevent gun violence, this segment of the evangelical church seems to have aligned itself with the states' rights movement and the rights of individual gun owners ...

Graham's achievement was to turn the face of fundamentalism outward toward the world – shaping, in the process, a distinct religious movement. His evangelicalism was more open and appealing, more intellectually and culturally engaged. Graham took his fellow evangelicals from the margins to the ...

His son is—not to put too fine a point on it—a political hack, one who is rapidly rebranding evangelicalism as a belief system marked not by faith, hope, and love but by fear of ... During World War II era, European churches were hurt badly by the affiliation of Christianity with right-wing political movements.

By now, Graham and others recognized that Americans, however wealthy and however large their numbers, were not the future of the global evangelical movement. He saw that demographics were moving all of Christianity, but particularly evangelical and charismatic Protestantism, toward its future as a ...

The growth and globalization of evangelicalism have tested the movement's coherence, not only in the relationship between charismatic and noncharismatic modes of belief and practice but also in relationship to the emergence of self-consciously postevangelical movements. Yet, even more remarkably, ...