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Recent Movements
Churches of the Protestant Reformation eventually lost enthusiasm.
They had to deal with day-to-day issues and they needed to address changing times.
Evangelicalism
By the 18th century, Protestants felt a need for reform.
In England, John and Charles Wesley tried to revive the evangelical fervour of early Protestant Reformation spirituality.
The Methodist Church was established to break away from the Anglican Church.
Similar movements occurred in Lutheran and Reformed traditions.
In the U.S., this movement (the Great Awakening) gave rise to Evangelicalism.
Evangelicalism involves a call to personal conversion as a conscious experience—“being born again.”
Some characteristics of Evangelicalism are:
Renewed emphasis on the authority of the Bible
Emphasis on righteous behaviour
Baptism for adults only
De-emphasis on official church membership and formal creeds
The spread of the Gospel through missionary activity
Fundamentalism
Protestant Fundamentalist churches teach that the Bible is without error, Christ is God, and Jesus died for our sake on the cross.
They reject Darwin’s theory of evolution in favour of the biblical story of creation.
Liberalism
In Christianity, Liberalism means finding some common ground with modernity and its search for reason, with science, technology, and modern political structures.
Some churches disagree with the union of Christianity and the modern world.
One of the largest movements against liberal Christianity is Pentecostalism.
Pentecostalism
The Pentecostal movement accepts the Bible as the Word of God without error.
Pentecostals believe the Holy Spirit guides them in how they should live.
This movement
preaches God’s judgment of the world and that the message of Christ and the modern world will not last.
waits for the Second Coming of Christ at the end of history.
believes people can seek to be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
believes in signs of the Holy Spirit’s presence, such as speaking in tongues and slaying in the Spirit.
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