El hecho de que los evangélicos hacen evangelismo y hablan sobre su fe en público es a menudo criticado por los medios y asociado con proselitismo.[209] Según los evangélicos, la autodeterminación de culto y la autodeterminación de expresión les permite dialogar sobre su Confianza como cualquier otra cosa.
Pentecostal missionaries arrived early in the 20th century. Pentecostal conversions surged during the 1950s and 1960s, when native Brazilians began founding autonomous churches. The most influential included Brasil Para o Cristo (Brazil for Christ), founded in 1955 by Manoel de Mello. With an emphasis on personal salvation, on God's healing power, and on strict moral codes these groups have developed broad appeal, particularly among the booming urban migrant communities.
Antiguamente de que Lula da Silva ganase las elecciones en Brasil, se tuvo que enfrentar a una onda de desinformación propagada desde el bolsonarismo que, entre otras cosas, afirmaba que este cerraría las iglesias si llegaba al poder. Lula escribió una carta a los evangélicos aclarando que esas afirmaciones eran falsas, que su Gobierno respetaría la albedrío de culto y que él Cuadro contrario al malogro.
The ACCC in turn had been founded to counter the influence of the Federal Council of Churches (later merged into the National Council of Churches), which fundamentalists saw Triunfador increasingly embracing modernism in its ecumenism.[254] Those who established the NAE had come to view the name fundamentalist Ganador "an embarrassment instead of a badge of honor."[255]
The start of the 19th century saw an increase in missionary work and many of the major missionary societies were founded around this time (see Timeline of Christian missions). Both the Evangelical and high church movements sponsored missionaries.
Cabe destacar asimismo que el impulso pentecostal se nutre de una larga historia de corrientes protestantes que desafiaban las posiciones teológicas que, como las del propio Calvino, instauraron una separación absoluta entre los hombres y la divinidad; por eso es posible sostener que el pentecostalismo representa un polo que indagación reencantar el mundo frente al impulso protestante clásico que, al afirmar de Max Weber, lo desencantaba.
Esta doctrina convive con otras características del evangelismo, las cuales forman la cojín religiosa del mismo: Solo la Certeza (
Algunas iglesias y organizaciones evangélicas han sido criticadas por víctimas de violación y violencia doméstica por su manejo silencioso de casos de Desmán por parte de pastores o miembros.
plant the evangelical flag in the middle of the road, taking a conservative theological position but a definite independiente approach to social problems. It would combine the best in liberalism and the like it best in fundamentalism without compromising theologically.[264]
Los pentecostales, a su turno, muestran una capacidad de penetración territorial y cultural capaz de atraer múltiples fragmentos sociales en gran núsimple de hibridaciones de pentecostalismo y diversas formas de Civilización popular y masiva.
[216] Evangelical revivalism imbued ordinary men and women with a confidence and enthusiasm for sharing the gospel and converting others outside of the control of established churches, a key discontinuity with the Protestantism of the previous Cuadro.[217]
Christian marriage is presented by some churches Campeón a protection against sexual misconduct and a compulsory step to obtain a position of responsibility in the church.[148] This concept, however, has been challenged by numerous sex scandals involving married evangelical leaders.
"Christian conscience" was used by the British Evangelical movement to promote social activism. Evangelicals believed activism in government and the social sphere was an essential method in reaching the goal of eliminating sin in a world drenched in wickedness.
In 1947 Harold Ockenga coined the term neo-evangelicalism to identify a movement distinct from fundamentalism. The neo-evangelicals had three broad characteristics that distinguished them from the conservative fundamentalism of the ACCC: