{"id":2585,"date":"2026-10-14T09:50:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:50:58","slug":"american-christian-evangelicals-1976-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/2026\/10\/14\/american-christian-evangelicals-1976-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"American Christian Evangelicals 1976-2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 50 Years of American Evangelism as both a Religious Entity and a Political Alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evangelism is the act of publicly or privately sharing and proclaiming the Christian Gospel \u2014 &#8220;The good news of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ&#8221; \u2014 with the intent of inviting others to the Christian faith and Evangelical discipleship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Evangelical is a Protestant Christian who places a primary emphasis on the &#8220;Good News&#8221; (Gospel) of Jesus Christ, a personal conversion, and the Truth and Authority of the Holy Christian Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Core Theological Features<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically and Theologically, Evangelicalism is often defined by the Bebbington Quadrilateral, which outlines four primary markers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Conversionism: The belief that individual lives must undergo a &#8216;biblical inspired&#8217; transformation or &#8220;born-again&#8221; experience through faith in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Biblicism: A high regard for and strict reliance on the Bible as the Ultimate, Authoritative and True Word of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Crucicentrism: A central focus on the Atoning Redemptive Sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross and His Salvation Resurrection of &#8220;Eternal Life&#8221; for the Redemption and Salvation of humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Activism: The active sharing of the Gospel (Evangelism) and engagement in missionary or social efforts. &#8211; Google AI Gemini<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is an Evangelical? | Historian George Marsden on 50 Years of Evangelicalism\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HgFioJGwQnY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50 Years of American Evangelism as both a Religious Entity and a Political Alliance. Evangelism is the act of publicly or privately sharing and proclaiming the Christian Gospel \u2014 &#8220;The good news of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ&#8221; \u2014 with the intent of inviting others to the Christian faith and Evangelical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,14,64,40,74,37],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-anson-brown","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-evangelical","tag-history","tag-jesus-christ","tag-kingdoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}