Conservative Evangelicalism is a term used in Britain to describe a theological movement found within Evangelical Protestant Christianity. The term is used more often in the first sense, but conservative evangelicals would themselves tend to use it in the second.
Conservative evangelicals are sometimes called Fundamentalists but typically reject that label and are keen to maintain their distinct identity, which is more Reformed. In this sense, Conservative Evangelicalism can be thought to be distinct from Liberal Evangelicalism, Open Evangelicalism and Charismatic Evangelicalism. Some conservative evangelical groups oppose women ministers or women preachers in mixed congregations.
Famous quotes containing the words british and/or conservative:
“The great British Library—an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or “pure English, undefiled” wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.”
—Washington Irving (1783–1859)
“The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.”
—Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)