{"id":2359,"date":"2012-02-16T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/02\/evangelicals-defined-the-history-of-american-evangelicalism.html"},"modified":"2012-02-16T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T07:53:00","slug":"evangelicals-defined-the-history-of-american-evangelicalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/02\/evangelicals-defined-the-history-of-american-evangelicalism.html","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals Defined: The History Of American Evangelicalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Evangelicals have been in the news a lot lately, from the Denver Broncos\u2019 Tim Tebow and his take-a-knee prayers to the Texas pastor and his wife who spent 24 hours in bed preaching the virtues of sex in Christian marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney is struggling to gain evangelical support for his presidential bid, and Rick Santorum \u2014 a Catholic \u2014 won the blessing of more than 100 evangelical pastors gathered at a Texas ranch.<\/p>\n<p>So who are these Christians? What do they have in common and how are they different from other believers? Even famed preacher Billy Graham wasn\u2019t sure of the answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, that\u2019s a question, I\u2019d like to ask somebody, too,\u201d Graham told religion reporter Terry Mattingly in a 1987 interview. \u201cThe lines (have) become blurred. \u2026 You go all the way from the extreme fundamentalists to the extreme liberals and, somewhere in between, there are the evangelicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s a primer about these religious types, their history, faith and politics:<br>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/02\/14\/evangelicals-defined-history-american-evangelicalism_n_1277352.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelicals have been in the news a lot lately, from the Denver Broncos\u2019 Tim Tebow and his take-a-knee prayers to the Texas pastor and his wife who spent 24 hours in bed preaching the virtues of sex in Christian marriages. Mitt Romney is struggling to gain evangelical support for his presidential bid, and Rick Santorum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Evangelicals Defined: The History Of American Evangelicalism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Evangelicals have been in the news a lot lately, from the Denver Broncos&#039; Tim Tebow and his take-a-knee prayers to the Texas pastor and his wife who spent\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/02\/evangelicals-defined-the-history-of-american-evangelicalism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Evangelicals Defined: The History Of American Evangelicalism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Evangelicals have been in the news a lot lately, from the Denver Broncos&#039; Tim Tebow and his take-a-knee prayers to the Texas pastor and his wife who spent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/02\/evangelicals-defined-the-history-of-american-evangelicalism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rhetoric Race and Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-02-16T07:53:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andre E. 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