Talk:Evangelical

message: Hey, Im trying to answer some questions for a friend of mine. Can anyone answer the following questions about Christian churches in the United States?
*Which denominations have established relationships with their counterparts in other nations?
*Are there any resources where about which denominations have given the most resources for international work?
*What are the main ways in which denominations/churches support their counterpart churches internationally?
Thanks so much for any help with these questions. Tchadienne 02:02, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Questions

message: " cleave to the supremacy of the Bible without adopting certain Pentecostal practices (such as glossolalia). "
I'm removing this sentance as it implies Glossolalia (speaking in toungues) is an unbiblical preactice. The practice derives from and is described in great detail in the Bible. see: http://www.religioustolerance.org/tongues3.htm I also intned to edit this article more in the future. If some time has elapsed and you've noticed no additions, please email me to hold me accountable. :) Thanks --DjSamwise 22:42, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supremecy of the Bible and Glossolalia 

message: * Christianity Today
* The Christian Post
*  ESV Bible
Dewikified links - I think they are some kind of advertising. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 19:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: User:Ling.Nut has done a great job of simplifying this page as a true disambiguation page.  I wonder if it could be simplified further; perhaps something like this (needs some clean up):
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Evangelical may refer to:
* Gospels
* Evangelicalism
* Protestantism
* Lutheranism 
* Evangelism
====See also====
* Catholic Evangelical
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My reasoning:
# Make it sound less like a dictionary and more a list of article links
#The Anglican Low church is an expression of Evangelicalism
# I am not keen on piped links in disambiguation pages
What do you think? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:27, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Simplification?

message: * Catholic Evangelical
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My reasoning:
# Make it sound less like a dictionary and more a list of article links
#The Anglican Low church is an expression of Evangelicalism
# I am not keen on piped links in disambiguation pages
What do you think? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:27, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: See also

message: * Catholic Evangelical
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Since no-one commented, I went ahead with my proposed changes. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 11:20, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: See also

message: At the bottom of the page it says: 'This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.' A disambiguation page therefore should list words which are the same (or very nearly so) but which have different meanings or usage in different contexts. But this page doesn't seem to do that, it lists pages of quite different titles, but doesn't explain how they relate. And why is 'Catholic Evangelical' (incidentally the only item which actually contains the same word as the title of the page) listed separately as a "See Also"? Catholics and Protestants not getting on? It seems to be written for people who already know all about it, rather than people trying to find out what it's all about.  Rexparry sydney 09:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What sort of a page is this? 

message: A well-meaning editor just added a list of three organisations with Evangelical in their name.  This is not recommended by the style guide, and in this case, the list could run to hundreds.  I have deleted them.  --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 15:12, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: German-speaking organisations with Evangelical in their name

message: We've got to have something that links to or other wise provides the classical meaning of "evangelical", not 'evangelicalism' as the term is often co-opted to mean in a contemporary American context, but the classic meaning still common in Europe of 'Protestant'.  You see this classic meaning still intented in the name of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which is certainly not "evangelical" in the contemporary American sense of the term, but instead in the classic European-rooted sense of the term. 
Emerymat (talk) 06:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point.  This page is here to address exactly this divergence in meaning.  So we have the link to Protestantism and also the links to wiktionary.  Were you thinking of some other way to express the classic meaning?   One of the contemporary American meanings is dealt with by the link to Evangelicalism.  You may also have noticed that many Americans use the adjective "evangelical" to refer to evangelism. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I agree in theory, but I'm just not sure that a user who is not already familiar with the classic meaning would see Protestantism as connected.  When they clicked on Protestantism, there isn't anything easily visible in that article that would explain why the user got linked there from Evangelical.  Emerymat (talk) 14:13, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: True.  I noticed that too, and added a bold face reference in the third sentence of Protestantism today.  I think the first type of reader we are trying to serve with a dab page is a person searching for an article on a particular subject.  But if we can, we should, as you say, try to help the reader who can't easily recognise the article he is looking for in the dab list.  --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 21:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classic sense of Evangelical 

message: This disambiguation page is unneccessary. An 'evangelical' is an adherent of 'evangelicalism' just like a Christian is an adherent of Christianity. The purpose of a disamb page is to distinguish between similar terms, rather than clarify misunderstood concepts. By redirecting, this whole mess is sorted out very simply. To summarise:
* Evangelism, Christian proselytism
* Protestantism, one of three major branches of Christianity  
* Gospels, accounts of the life of Jesus of Nazareth
Evangelical' doesn't 'refer' to any of the above. They are completely different concepts.
And as for:
* Lutheranism
* Evangelical Synod of North America, a former Reformed denomination known as the Evangelicals, or the
**Evangelical and Reformed Church, its successor
These are narrower subsets of 'evangelicalism', and they are covered in the article on Evangelicalism
The Evangelicalism article also directs people to the rock band as well. 
* Evangelicals (band), an American indie rock band  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sbmackay (talk • contribs) 07:38, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect to 'Evangelicalism' 

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thread_title: Move discussion in progress