How has American evangelicalism come about?
There s always been a strong strand of American Protestantism that is evangelical. Evangelicals, in a broad sense, means Christians who believe in the traditional doctrines of church – Jesus is Christ, the Bible is the Word of God, and they are commissioned to spread that conviction with others. The crucial aspect about the evangelicals is that they actually do go evangelize. In the beginning of the 20th century, mainline churches had a more liberal wing and were more interested in the social Gospel. They were liberal in the reading of the scriptures, and even of Jesus identity. While they were never of majority, these liberal factions began being accepted as members of those churches. Since then, more conservative people said their churches were becoming too political, apostate, and liberal. There was a series of fights, splits, and trials — particularly between the most conservative/fundamentalists and the most liberal/moderate. After these fights, especially in the 1920s and until
