According to the Pew Research Center, more white Americans adopted than shed the evangelical label during Trump's presidency, especially among his supporters.
Even outside of the US political context, adjectives have been and are added to 'evangelical' - e.g., open, conservative, post-, post-conservative - so it's not a new phenomenon. Certainly, I came across 'post-evangelical' through Dave Tomlinson's, um, <i>The Post-evangelical</i> in the 90s.
"Evangelical Catholic" works for me, but then I know that for many Evangelicals in my Anglican Church that would never fly--given historic differentiation from "Anglo-Catholics." Might we be able to get away without using any party labels, simply maintaining a fervent commitment to the unity of the church, holiness of life, the catholicity of the church, and the apostolic gospel? Now, where have I heard that quadrilateral before?
Even outside of the US political context, adjectives have been and are added to 'evangelical' - e.g., open, conservative, post-, post-conservative - so it's not a new phenomenon. Certainly, I came across 'post-evangelical' through Dave Tomlinson's, um, <i>The Post-evangelical</i> in the 90s.
I’ve been calling myself an “orthodox Protestant” for a while now in preference to Evangelical.
"Evangelical Catholic" works for me, but then I know that for many Evangelicals in my Anglican Church that would never fly--given historic differentiation from "Anglo-Catholics." Might we be able to get away without using any party labels, simply maintaining a fervent commitment to the unity of the church, holiness of life, the catholicity of the church, and the apostolic gospel? Now, where have I heard that quadrilateral before?