What Is The Impact Of Evangelicalism On America
Defining and Analyzing Evangelicalism
Lindsay Chilton
Thomas Nelson Community College
Evangelicalism and Its Impact On America
Evangelicalism is a distinctively American ideology that has formed the country’s values from its origination.
Starting in England with the English Civil War, the Puritans (nicknamed “roundhead” for their short hairstyles) disagreed with King Charles I approach to religion and church. Charles I arranged church worship in a way very similar to the Catholic church where a church attender had to appeal to a priest in order to talk to the Lord. Puritans, instead insisted on a simpler form of worship where they could directly appeal to God instead of going through a priest or a king. They saw this modeled in parliament as well and began to consider a new colony where they could worship as they pleased without appealing to the king. This discontentment led to a group of Puritans leaving England and establishing a colony in what is now known as Massachusetts. The movement emphasized a personal salvation between a sinner and God without the need for an in between man.
Evangelicalism gained popularity during the Age of the Bourgeoisie, where it focused on personal salvation and sanctification. Personal salvation is the belief that a person must be “born again” in order to gain …show more content…
Americans have never responded well to a ruler or dictator being put over them and that fierce sense of independence is what originally led to the evangelism movement with the puritans. The idea and values of evangelicalism stem from the puritans rebellinousness of having a king or priest between them and God. American culture has routinely fought against having rulers solely controlling the states or religions and have destroyed other ideologies that have contradicted this sense of independence such as Hitler or
Lindsay Chilton
Thomas Nelson Community College
Evangelicalism and Its Impact On America
Evangelicalism is a distinctively American ideology that has formed the country’s values from its origination.
Starting in England with the English Civil War, the Puritans (nicknamed “roundhead” for their short hairstyles) disagreed with King Charles I approach to religion and church. Charles I arranged church worship in a way very similar to the Catholic church where a church attender had to appeal to a priest in order to talk to the Lord. Puritans, instead insisted on a simpler form of worship where they could directly appeal to God instead of going through a priest or a king. They saw this modeled in parliament as well and began to consider a new colony where they could worship as they pleased without appealing to the king. This discontentment led to a group of Puritans leaving England and establishing a colony in what is now known as Massachusetts. The movement emphasized a personal salvation between a sinner and God without the need for an in between man.
Evangelicalism gained popularity during the Age of the Bourgeoisie, where it focused on personal salvation and sanctification. Personal salvation is the belief that a person must be “born again” in order to gain …show more content…
Americans have never responded well to a ruler or dictator being put over them and that fierce sense of independence is what originally led to the evangelism movement with the puritans. The idea and values of evangelicalism stem from the puritans rebellinousness of having a king or priest between them and God. American culture has routinely fought against having rulers solely controlling the states or religions and have destroyed other ideologies that have contradicted this sense of independence such as Hitler or