Evangelicalism (20th century)

A transdenominational current that, from the 1940s, moved away from fundamentalism to engage the culture while keeping biblical authority, personal conversion, the centrality of the cross and mission. Its roots are in the 18th-century revivals, and today it is strongest in the Global South.

The Lausanne Covenant (1974) included an article on Christian social responsibility, pushed largely by Latin Americans René Padilla (an Ecuadorian based in Argentina) and Samuel Escobar (Peruvian), advocates of "integral mission".

• Billy Graham1918–2018
• Carl F. H. Henry1913–2003
• Harold J. Ockenga1905–1985
• John Stott1921–2011
• C. René Padilla1932–2021

• Founding of the National Association of Evangelicals (US)1942
• The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism (Henry)1947
• Lausanne Covenant1974
• Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy1978

• Protestant Fundamentalism

• First Great Awakening
• Baptists
• Methodism
• Pentecostalism