What is the difference between a evangelical and a Protestant?

[kenneth]

More Americans are acquainted with a gay or lesbian person than an evangelical, according to a recent study.
Also, the study showed that a majority of evangelicals (62 percent), along with 75 percent of Protestant churchgoers and 77 percent of all Catholics, know a gay or lesbian person at least casually.

"Is this because homosexuals are more open than evangelicals about who they are? Because Americans are more open to knowing a homosexual than an evangelical? Because evangelicals themselves are less likely to reach into the broader community to form relationships?" he posed. "These questions are certainly open to debate."

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080626/study-evangelicals-lesser-known-than-homosexuals.htm


Question. What is the difference between a evangelical and a Protestant? The Christian news media makes a distinction. How do they make it?

[MornDew247]

"Is this because homosexuals are more open than evangelicals about who they are? Because Americans are more open to knowing a homosexual than an evangelical? Because evangelicals themselves are less likely to reach into the broader community to form relationships?"


No, it's because gay people tend to shout it from the rooftops. At least the lesbians I know are very in-your-face with their lifestyles, while I myself at least am more reserved. They know how I feel and believe, but I don't need to throw it at them all of the time, whereas I think they are so very very constantly vocal because they feel insecure. Also, I don't feel the need to label myself either.... but what do I know? :noidea

[barb43]

I would label myself an evangelical and have to say i know many others locally who would also. :noidea In fact, around here, you can't go anywhere around town without bumping into evangelicals at every turn. :lol

Here it's the gay men who are so in-your-face. :rolleyes It gets really old.

[BHiles]

Protestants by definition are those who follow the doctrine of those who protested Catholicism in the Reformation and then coming out from her and forming their own churches.

Not all evangelicals follow protestant doctrine. Not all who are christain and not Catholic, Protestant.


The The evangelical movement as it is known today emerged in the 1940's and 50's as a middle way between what many Christian leaders perceived as theological liberalism in the mainline Protestant denominations and the cultural separatism of the fundamentalist movement. - Micahel Luo - New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/weekinreview/16luo.html?_r=2&adxnnlx=1145227368-p%20hJwvCXS0qceSTw%20jLi8w&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin)

I would whole heartedly agree with that statement.

[kenneth]

Not all evangelicals follow protestant doctrine. Not all who are christain and not Catholic, Protestant. In afterwords evangelicals are non-Catholic Arminians, as apposed to Protestant Calvinist?

[Gods Trombone]

I think the labels have just about lost their meaning. If we go back to the original intent of these labels, I believe "evangelical" referred to those bible believing non-Catholics who were actively seeking to preach the gospel to the unsaved.
A "Protestent" was simply a member of a non-Catholic "Christian denomination."

[IbeleiveinJesus]

I consider myself both a Protestant, and an Evangelical..

However, I would note that for many folks the term "Evangelical" has a negative connotation (someone really preachy, judgmental, etc), and it could be that the respondents in this poll know many folks who are Christian, and unashamed of their faith, but don't want to label them with a term they consider deprecatory.

-Ted

[BHiles]

Early in Christian history after the demise of the church at Jerusalem and the rise of platonic thought mixed with biblical interpretation at the college of Philo at Alexandria, two sects of Christianity emerged. One that heavily influenced by those at the Church at Antioch. And those heavily influenced by the teachers of the college of Philo that we now know today as Catholics organized and those who did not organize into catholics were called anabaptist because they preached savlation by faith and rebaptized people after getting saved and not as babies. Anabaptist was not a religion it was a slur.

Anabaptist were persecuted by the catholic church and thusly the state as heretics. There were many churches but either you followed catholicism or were called anabaptist.

There were several splits of the Catholic church. First of the major splits were the orthodox splits early in 451AD mainly over politics and not doctrine and then what came to be known as the Reformation mainly over doctrine and not politics. In these splits portions of catholicism were kept.

Anabaptist not as an organized group but as individual churches that interprete the Bible literally and preached salvation by faith.

After the reformation many anabaptist were influenced by the reformers in doctrine.

Anabaptists formed different groups including Amish, Mennonite, Baptist, Bretheren, Four Square Gospel and Nazarene. From the Baptist came Pentecostal.

Since anabaptists were not part of the reformation they are not called protestants by definition.


The merging of reformation doctrine and baptistic doctrine continued platonic thought on the liberal side of what became evangelicalism and fundamentalism stayed on the side of literal interpretation amoung conservative Evangelicals and fundamentalists who refuse to wear the evangelical title.

If evangelicals are considered "someone really preachy, judgmental, etc" then fundamentalist are already headed to the gallows in the minds of the politcal leftist of this country.

[IbeleiveinJesus]

If evangelicals are considered "someone really preachy, judgmental, etc" then fundamentalist are already headed to the gallows in the minds of the politcal leftist of this country.

My opinion stems from my living in Denver, and the opinion of folks in liberal Denver in regards to those living in Evangelical Colorado Springs...

-Ted

[BHiles]

My opinion stems from my living in Denver, and the opinion of folks in liberal Denver in regards to those living in Evangelical Colorado Springs...

-Ted
I don't doubt your opinion.

[CaiperLane]

No, it's because gay people tend to shout it from the rooftops. At least the lesbians I know are very in-your-face with their lifestyles, while I myself at least am more reserved. They know how I feel and believe, but I don't need to throw it at them all of the time, whereas I think they are so very very constantly vocal because they feel insecure. Also, I don't feel the need to label myself either.... but what do I know? :noidea

Exactly!

[Doxiemom]

putting history aside, is it okay for me to call myself an evangelical catholic?

(doxie i hanging upside down from the land down-under. eating vegamite sandwiches and petting kangaroos)