That evangelical Anglican, because he was trusted by the larger evangelical world –endorsed by Billy Graham –introduced a whole generation to a sovereign God and the doctrines of grace.
Reagan moved his party sharply to the right and gave socially conservative evangelical Christians a major role to play — some of whom were actively hostile to science.
For the Protestants who accept it only in so far as it represents the evangelical teaching of the Apostolic Age, it became a matter of supreme importance to investigate its original form and meaning.
Then along came Sarah Palin, the lightly travelled Christian evangelical McCain chose as his running mate.
The evangelical services tend to be livelier than Catholic liturgy and to last longer, often turning into an outing lasting the whole day.
The scenes I witnessed at the opening of the new Apple store in London's Covent Garden were more like an evangelical prayer meeting than a chance to buy a phone or a laptop.
It's no surprise that according to Pew results 69 percent of self-identified white evangelical Protestants said they were Republicans.
White evangelical Protestants have the highest denial rate (55 percent), closely followed by the group across all religions who attend services on average at least once a week (49 percent).
The poll foundthat 53 percent of white evangelical respondents and 20 percent of Catholicsand mainline protestants said God sometimes punishes entire nations for thesins of a few.
After escaping slavery, Truth embraced evangelical religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work.
Moreover, Mr Huntsman, like Mr Romney, is a Mormon, a faith viewed with some suspicion by the evangelical Christians who make up a sizeable share of the Republican primary electorate.
The alarm that these changes have produced has been picked up and amplified by the fast-growing Latino evangelical movement.
There had been a tremendous revival of fundamentalist religion, mainly Methodism, in England, and this evangelical enthusiasm spread itself into the interests of the empire.
And the Second Coming, which every American evangelical anticipates, will feature angels in their millions, choreographed as planned from the beginning of the world.
