According to the Pew Research Center, more white Americans adopted than shed the evangelical label during Trump's presidency, especially among his supporters. This is odd because I distinctly remember reading in the NYT during the 2016 GOP primaries that the less a Republican went to church, the more likely they were to support Trump. Well, I don’t think those Republicans have necessarily joined a church, but I guess they have now adopted the label “Evangelical.”
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?