Yet in 1943, the Federal Council of Churches ( later renamed the National Council of Churches ) supported proposed regulations that would result in every Evangelical broadcaster being taken off the national radio networks.

Subsequently every Evangelical Christian broadcaster was taken off the national radio networks, with their only access being small independent stations with a very limited audience.

American Millennialism and Adventism, which arose from Evangelical Protestantism, influenced the Jehovah's Witnesses movement ( with 7 million members ), and, as a reaction specifically to William Miller, the Seventh-day Adventists.

Wilberforce was also urged by his close friend, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, to make the issue his own, and was also given support by reformed Evangelical John Newton.

Although United Methodist practices and interpretation of beliefs have evolved over time, these practices and beliefs can be traced to the writings of the church's founders, especially John Wesley and Charles Wesley ( Anglicans ), but also Philip William Otterbein and Martin Boehm ( United Brethren ), and Jacob Albright ( Evangelical ).

The leading organizer of the Fundamentalist campaign against modernism was William Bell Riley, a Northern Baptist based in Minneapolis, where his Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School ( 1902 ), Northwestern Evangelical Seminary ( 1935 ), and Northwestern College ( 1944 ) produced thousands of graduates.

Bethphage was founded in 1913 by K. G. William Dahl, a minister of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church and William Hoster House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

With the visionary schemes of Frederick William, whether that of setting up a strict episcopal organization in the Evangelical Church in Prussia, or that of reviving the defunct ideal of the medieval Empire, Bunsen found himself increasingly out of sympathy.

In September 1857 Bunsen attended, as the king's guest, a meeting of the Evangelical Alliance at Berlin ; and one of the last papers signed by Frederick William, before his mind gave way in October, was that which conferred upon him the title of baron and a peerage for life.

The Calvinist minority, strongly supported by its co-religionist Frederick William III, and the partially reluctant Lutheran majority formed the united Protestant Evangelical Church in Prussia.

The Eastern group was the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, a denomination formed on 13 April 1897 through the merger of two older bodies: The Central Evangelical Holiness Association ( organised 13 – 14 March 1890 ) and led by Fred A. Hillery and C. Howard Davis ; and three churches organised by William Howard Hoople since January 1894, and formed into the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America.

The General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc. was organized in 1935 as the Church of the Full Gospel, Inc, by members of several Free Will Baptist churches, under the leadership of William Howard Carter.

An Evangelical revival was seen in the Church of England with men such as George Whitefield, John Wesley ( later to found the Methodists ), Charles Wesley, Griffith Jones, Howell Harris, Daniel Rowland, William Cowper, John Newton, Thomas Scott, and Charles Simeon.

* Evangelical Responsibility in Contemporary Theology ( Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1957 ).

In 1879 the followers of William Gehman ( called Evangelical Mennonites ) merged with the United Mennonites, creating the Evangelical United Mennonites.

Clarkson also approached the young William Wilberforce, who as an ( Evangelical ) Anglican and an MP could offer them a link into the British Parliament.

In 1817 – under the auspices of King Frederick William III of Prussia – the community of the Supreme Parish Church, like most Prussian Calvinist and Lutheran congregations joined the common umbrella organisation named Evangelical Church in Prussia ( under this name since 1821 ), with each congregation maintaining its former denomination or adopting the new united denomination.

With no separation of Protestant church and state of Prussia, William II officiated as the summus episcopus ( Supreme Governor of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces, as it was named since 1875 ) and the state paid the complete construction cost of 11, 5 million Marks.

In those early years of radio broadcasting, pioneer Evangelical broadcasters like William Ward Ayer, Paul Rader, Donald Grey Barnhouse, Walter Maier, and Charles Fuller had built radio audiences in the millions and were faithfully proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In 1831, the German Evangelical Lutheran Seminary secured in the south end, founded by William Schmidt, an immigrant from Halle, Germany.

DTS was founded as Evangelical Theological College in 1924 by Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, who taught the first class of 13 students, and William Henry Griffith Thomas, who was to have been the school's first theology professor but died before the first classes began.

Another important landowner, the Reverend William Dalton, was an Evangelical clergyman from Ulster, but he owed his wealth to marriage to the widow of a Bilston iron master.

Champneys was born in Whitechapel, London, on September 17, 1842 into a family with a modest income, his father, William Weldon Champneys, was an Evangelical Vicar of St Mary's Church, Whitechapel ( later Dean of Lichfield ), with the problems of London ’ s poor to worry about.

In 1817, King Frederick William III of Prussia ordered the Lutheran and Reformed churches in his territory to unite, forming the Evangelical Church of the Prussian Union, a predecessor to today's Evangelical Church in Germany.

* Ward, W. R. The Protestant Evangelical Awakening Cambridge University Press, 1992.

The first general assembly of the church met at Ward Evangelical Presbyterian Church in suburban Detroit, Michigan in late 1981, drafting a list of essential beliefs.

* Terry Winter dead at 56 The evangelical community loses a voice by Evangelical Fellowship of Canada ; W. Ward Gasgue and the Vancouver Sun

Instead, owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new Prime Minister, a newcomer, the far more Evangelical Bishop Proudie, gains the see.

As far as religious buildings are concerned, there is the Evangelical Church at Quêssua and as for funerary constructions, the Tomb of the queen Ana de Sousa Nzinga Mbande and the tomb of José do Telhado, a local Robin Hood.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ( far right ) with ( from left ) Holy Trinity Church, Warsaw | Evangelical Church, the Zachęta art gallery, and, in background, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw | Palace of Culture and Science

" They also accept " the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church contained in the Book of Concord of 1580, not in so far as, but because they are a correct exposition of the pure doctrine of the Word of God.

While the term " Confessional Lutheran " is generally used among the more conservative churches found in groupings such as the International Lutheran Council and the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference, churches of the larger Lutheran World Federation subscribe to the Book of Concord as an exposition of faith, in so far as ( quatenus ) it agrees with the Bible.

Finland, for example, has the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and Finnish Orthodox Church as its official state religions, yet upholds the right of free expression of religion in article 11 of its constitution.

Evangelical leaders like Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council have called attention to the problem of equating the term " Christian right " with evangelicals.

The German Christians won handily ( 70 – 80 % of all seats in presbyteries and synods ), except within four regional churches and one provincial body of the united old-Prussian church: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria right of the river Rhine, the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Hanover, Evangelical Reformed State Church of the Province of Hanover the Lutheran Evangelical State Church in Württemberg, and in the old-Prussian ecclesiastical province of Westphalia, where the German Christians gained no majorities.

In its Statement of Faith, the Evangelical Free Church of America affirms the authority and inerrancy of the Bible ; the Trinity ; atonement through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ ; original sin ; Christ as head of the church and the local church's right to self government ; the personal, premillennial, imminent return of Christ ; the bodily resurrection of the dead ; and the two ordinances of water baptism and the Lord's Supper.

The intrigues of Archduke Ferdinand induced him after the diet to draw up a federal statute for the Evangelical estates, which shows that he was more decidedly convinced of the right and duty of defense than his father.

It was under Mainz's rule that the nowadays so-called " Dispute Church " (" Streitkirche ") was built, having been planned as a Catholic church in 1758 to be built right next to the Evangelical church.

In September 1934, the merger finally failed when the synods of two of the 28 churches, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria right of the river Rhine, the portion of Bavaria which forms today's Free State ( without the Palatinate left of the Rhine ), and the Evangelical State Church in Württemberg, refused to dissolve their church bodies as independent entities, and the Berlin-based Landgericht I court restored the largest church body, the by then already merged Evangelical Church of the Old-Prussian Union by its resolution in November the same year, thus resuming independence.

The ULC is legally seen as the successor to the Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession and has been given the right to reclaim some of the church property once seized by the Soviet government.

During her legislative career, she was initially identified as a Ronald Reagan supporter, but as time went on, she gained a strong identity as an Evangelical Christian and member of the Christian right.