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“Bebbington but”

John Fea   |  January 21, 2022

Ryan Hoselton, a postdoctoral instructor at the University of Heidelberg, asks a good question about my feature today at Current: Perhaps “Bebbington but” is the best way to define evangelicalism. I still use Bebbington when I define the term in...

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The future of American evangelicalism is Latino

John Fea   |  July 27, 2021

Here is Meaghan Winter at The Atlantic; Latinos are leaving the Catholic Church and converting to evangelical Protestantism in increased numbers, and evangelical organizations are putting more energy and resources toward reaching potential Latino congregants. Latinos are the fastest-growing group of evangelicals in the...

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Mark Noll on the Definition of Evangelicalism

John Fea   |  April 28, 2020

Over at Religion and Politics, Eric C. Miller talks with historian Mark Noll about the definition of evangelicalism.  Noll is the editor of a recent book on the subject (co-authored with George Marsden and David Bebbington) titled Evangelicals: Who They Have...

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“Christian Politics?”: Week Two

John Fea   |  January 15, 2018

Yesterday I taught the second of four 90-minute classes on Christian politics at West Shore Evangelical Free Church in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.  Read my summary of Week One here. If you recall, in Week 1 I explained five ways in which Christians have thought about...

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Should We Retire the “Bebbington Quadrilateral?”

John Fea   |  January 4, 2018

Timothy Gloege, author of Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism, thinks that we should. Historian David Bebbington has suggested that evangelicals believe in conversion (being born-again), biblicism (the need to base one’s faith fundamentally...

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Defining Evangelicalism at the Conference on Faith and History: Part Two

John Fea   |  October 3, 2014

For part one of this series click here. After Darren Dochuk offered this thoughts on the Bebbington Quadrilateral, Mark Noll of Notre Dame University took the lectern.  It was fun watching these two giants in the field–Bebbington and Noll–debating the...

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Defining Evangelicalism at the Conference on Faith and History: Part One

John Fea   |  October 2, 2014 Leave a Comment

I spent a lot of time thinking about evangelicalism this weekend.  It was the focus of several high-powered panels at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History.  One of those panels was focused on David Bebbington’s “Quadilateral” […]

Virtual Office Hours: Fall 2014 – Episode 2

John Fea   |  September 15, 2014

“What is an Evangelical?” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-szN3zXI1Lw]...

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