This solemn commitment tends to be referred to as the " Benedictine vow " and is the Benedictine antecedent and equivalent of the evangelical counsels professed by candidates for reception into a religious order.

The deeply religious Gladstone brought a new moral tone to politics with his evangelical sensibility and opposition to aristocracy.

Baptism received by adults or younger people who have reached the age of accountability where they can make a personal religious decision is referred to as believer's baptism among conservative or evangelical Protestant groups.

The deeply religious Gladstone brought a new moral tone to politics with his evangelical sensibility and opposition to aristocracy.

His mother, intensely religious, was an evangelical of Scottish Episcopal origins, and his father joined the Church of England, having been a Presbyterian when he first settled in Liverpool.

In the 17th century English Quakers and evangelical religious groups condemned slavery ( by then applied mostly to Africans ) as un-Christian ; in the 18th century, abolition was part of the message of the First Great Awakening in the Thirteen Colonies ; and in the same period, rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man.

This chapter described the essential form of religious life as a life " consecrated by the profession of the evangelical counsels " ( n. 44 ).

Each of these " Great Awakenings " was characterized by widespread revivals led by evangelical Protestant ministers, a sharp increase of interest in religion, a profound sense of conviction and redemption on the part of those affected, an increase in evangelical church membership, and the formation of new religious movements and denominations.

It blends evangelical Christian theology with elements of religious Jewish practice and terminology.

The broader term " evangelical " includes fundamentalists as well as people with similar or identical religious beliefs who do not engage the outside challenge to the Bible as actively.

As the explanations for SRA were distanced from evangelical Christianity and into the realm of " survivor " groups, the motivations ascribed to purported Satanists shifted from combating a religious nemesis to mind control and abuse as an end to itself.

The area has strong religious ties, containing a substantial number of evangelical Christians.

Despite commonality in religious identification, however, evangelical Christians in general and eventually the newly-formed Moral Majority in particular would come to be disappointed with Carter ’ s policies.

Members take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the evangelical counsels commonly vowed in religious life, and, in addition, vows of service.

As consecrated religious, Augustinians profess the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience.

This changed when he had a religious conversion while listening to Howell Harris, the evangelical reformer, preaching in Talgarth in 1737.

While these specific failings came back to haunt the Empire in subsequent decades, perhaps the greatest weakness of the Peace of Augsburg was its failure to take into account the growing diversity of religious expression emerging in the so-called evangelical and reformed traditions.

The decision followed a criticism from a Utah evangelical group that equated cancelling the concert to an assault on religious liberty.

Other religious groups for which the 2000 census provided estimates included evangelicals, with 1. 71 percent of the population ; other Protestant evangelical groups, 2. 79 percent ; members of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1. 25 percent ; " historical " Protestants, 0. 71 percent ; Seventh-day Adventists, 0. 58 percent ; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 0. 25 percent ; Jews, 0. 05 percent ; and other religions, 0. 31 percent.

Appealing to the King's religious tastes, John Dudley became the chief backer of evangelical Protestants among the clergy, promoting several to bishoprics — for example John Hooper and John Ponet.

Gordon's interest was prompted by his religious beliefs, as he had become an evangelical Christian in 1854.

Its religious communities include ( to name only a few ), Afrikaans-speaking congregations of the Dutch Reformed Church, Rastafarian communities, people who engage only in traditional Xhosa practices, syncretic Xhosa Christian churches, evangelical Christian churches, and southern Africa's largest Muslim community ( drawing its oldest roots from the historic Cape Muslim community, which dates back to the 17th century ).

After four voyages to India he was nominated to the command of the Melville Castle in the summer of 1793 ; but having begun a careful study of the Bible during his voyages, and also come under the evangelical influence of David Bogue of Gosport, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society, he abruptly decided to leave the navy for a religious life, and returned to Scotland.

In about 1796 he became acquainted with the celebrated evangelical, Charles Simeon of Cambridge, in whose company he toured Scotland, distributing tracts and trying to awaken others to an interest in religious subjects.

For example, the Methodist Church grew out of Anglican minister John Wesley's evangelical and revival movement in the Anglican Church.

The only existing umbrella organization within the countercult movement in the USA is the EMNR ( Evangelical Ministries to New Religions ) founded in 1982 which has the evangelical Lausanne Covenant as governing document and which stresses mission, scholarship, accountability and networking.

* Christian City Churches, an evangelical, Pentecostal church movement founded by Pastors Phil Pringle and Chris Pringle

For example, the Times Literary Supplement refers to " the rise and fall of evangelical fervor within the Socialist movement ".

As a result, the dichotomy between " evangelical " and " mainline " denominations is increasingly complex, particularly with such innovations as the " emergent church " movement.

The post-war period also saw growth of the ecumenical movement and the founding of the World Council of Churches, which was generally regarded with suspicion by the evangelical community.

He and his friends, who formed the Catholic evangelical movement of the Spirituali, thought that all would have been done when the abuses in church life had been put away.

This evangelical movement was led by lay preachers who themselves came from the lower strata, and whose preaching was implicitly critical of the established order.

In New Zealand, prohibition was a moralistic reform movement begun in the mid-1880s by the Protestant evangelical and Nonconformist churches and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and after 1890 by the Prohibition League.

Prohibition was a major reform movement from the 1840s into the 1920s, and was sponsored by evangelical Protestant churches, especially the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Disciples and Congregationalists.

In New Zealand, prohibition was a moralistic reform movement begun in the mid-1880s by the Protestant evangelical and Nonconformist churches and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and after 1890 by the Prohibition League.

He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally.

He returned home to the United States and joined a First-Century Christian evangelical movement known as the Oxford Group ( later known as Moral Re-Armament ).

The evangelical movement of the 1740s played a key role in the development of democratic thought, as well as the belief of the free press and the belief that information should be shared and completely unbiased and uncontrolled.

Hope of Israel was controversial ; other missionary groups accused its members of being Judaizers, and one of the two editors of Our Hope magazine, Arno C. Gaebelein, eventually repudiated his views, and, as a result, was able to become a leader in the mainstream Christian evangelical movement.

The movement arose in British and American Protestantism in the late 19th century and early 20th century among evangelical Christians.

Both rural and urban in character, the flourishing movement acted as a denominational surrogate and aimed at a militant orthodoxy of evangelical Christianity.

Less than six months into his government, Fujimori broke with many of his Cambio supporters, including the second vice president and leader of the evangelical movement, Carlos García y García, and APEMIPE.

Fearing that the failure of states to establish schools and the rise of " infidelity " would bring about the destruction of republican institutions, he helped to create a national evangelical movement — the second " Great Awakening " -- intended to " re-church " America.

Secular and Christian media exposure in 1971 and 1972 caused the Jesus movement to explode across the United States, attracting evangelical youth eager to identify with the movement.

His father supplied him with means and, on coming of age, he repaired to Venice, the headquarters of the evangelical movement in Italy.

For the evangelical protestant movement, see Confessing Movement.

Open theism is a recent theological movement that has developed within evangelical and post-evangelical Protestant Christianity as a response to certain ideas that are related to the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology.

John Venn's father ( Henry ) also played a prominent role in the evangelical Christian movement.