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Are Evangelicals Presbyterian?

July 7, 2022 · by Cameron Shaffer · in Uncategorized

My four-point defining feature of confessionalists, in distinction from evangelicals and pietists, is that they are

  1. Church oriented, grounded in the Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, or Reformed traditions arising from the Protestant Reformation in the 16th-17th centuries.
  2. Church forms matter and are central for spiritual life, especially liturgical and doctrinal formulations, along with polity.
  3. Spiritual practice orbits the public worship of the church, with emphasis on preaching, the sacraments, and prayer.
  4. Ordinary life in the world is good and welcome.

In Reformed and Evangelical Across Four Centuries: The Presbyterian Story in America (2022), historians from four different American Presbyterian churches wrote on the subject of the intersection between Presbyterians and evangelicals…

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