In any event, these mainline churches are not the same as those of the suburban heyday of the sixties. Like surviving local independent bookstores responding to modern readers, they have had to become more responsive to the emotional needs of spiritual seekers, channelling the desire for connection into the arts and a wide array of service projects. Butler Bass writes a newsletter, in which, after the P. They went to protest marches. They innovated liturgy. They read liberal theology books, studied feminist and liberation theology, embraced contemporary biblical criticism.
They followed no plan—except for believing that Christianity was an adventure and that Christian community could be transformative, challenging, and deeply spiritual in and for the world. Butler Bass and other church progressives may now compete with evangelical megachurch pastors as unofficial spokespeople for their faith, complicating the public image of what white Protestants in America believe and how they act.
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Wuthnow, Robert, and John H. Evans, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press. Note that both of these are flavors of mainline Christianity.
Atheists clock in at the third position, and agnostics are ranked fifth in mean political […]. Like Like. What is also striking is that mainline Protestants, despite their more liberal leanings, are also tepid in their feelings about same sex marriage. This data indicates that just Large numbers of students attending public and mainline Protestant institutions also agree their campuses welcome the LGBT community.
Differences in LGBT inclusivity […]. In the American religious landscape it is the prototypical mainline church — filled with middle and upper-middle class, mostly white congregants who are moderate on social […]. Which makes sense. The mainline is filled with old school, country club Republicans and younger social progressives. Non-white […]. For instance, just a third of the Episcopalians voted for the Republicans, […].
We already wrote an explainer about mainline Protestants. And really, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians are "evangelical" too: they have heard the good news of Jesus Christ and they form their lives around it.
So in some ways, all Christians are evangelical, since all are living the good news of Jesus Christ. Of course, evangelicalism is something else, too. Just like Roman Catholics use the word catholic or "universal exclusively to identify themselves and just like Orthodox Christians use the word orthodox "right believing" exclusively, certain Protestant Christians have appropriated the word evangelical to identify their own interests and ideas.
In general, evangelicals place emphasis upon a personal relationship with Jesus, attribute a great deal of authority to the Bible, and regard the spreading of the Christian message as central to the life of faith. Unlike Roman Catholics or Orthodox Christians, however, these ideas do not associate with single denominations. Christians with these commitments live and work both within each of the mainline denominations as well as outside the purview of mainline Protestantism in non-denominational churches.
So at the very least, there is great and indefinable overlap between mainline and evangelical Protestantism. Back to Frequently Asked Questions.
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