Evangelical, Pentecostal, Synod, accept politicians’ ‘immoral’ acts

Washington Post

The survey comes as the majority of white evangelicals are expected to favor Donald J. Trump.

The Trump effect? A stunning number of evangelicals will now accept politicians’ ‘immoral’ acts.

In 2011, just 30 percent of white evangelicals said this.

WASHINGTONPOST.COM|作者：SARAH PULLIAM BAILEY

Niebuhr was born in Missouri in 1892, the son of a German-born minister of the German Evangelical Synod of North America. He was trained for the ministry at the Synod's Eden Theological Seminary and at the Yale Divinity School. In the 1920's he took a church in industrial Detroit, the scene of bitter labor-capital conflict.

Insight | 21.06.2008 | 04:30
From outcasts to chosen people, the conversion of France’s gypsies to evangelical Christianity

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Roma people celebrating at a festival

French gypsies belonging to the Pentecostal Gypsy Church ‘Vie et Lumiere’ - Light and Life - have just held a week-long meeting in central France.

Some 40,000 travellers came to the event in central France confirming what other recent rallies already suggested - that evangelical Protestantism has replaced Catholicism as the principal religion of French gypsies. There is an extraordinary rise of Jesus’s gypsies and Evangelical Christianity is having an impact on the lifestyle, behaviour and identity of gypsies in France.

evangelical

(ē'văn-jĕl'ĭ-kəl, ĕv'ən-)  aadj.

1. Of, relating to, or in accordance with the Christian gospel, especially one of the four gospel books of the New Testament.
2. Evangelical Of, relating to, or being a Protestant church that founds its teaching on the gospel.
3. Evangelical Of, relating to, or being a Christian church believing in the sole authority and inerrancy of the Bible, in salvation only through regeneration, and in a spiritually transformed personal life.
4. Evangelical
   1. Of or relating to the Lutheran churches in Germany and Switzerland.
   2. Of or relating to all Protestant churches in Germany.
5. Of or relating to the group in the Church of England that stresses personal conversion and salvation by faith.
6. Characterized by ardent or crusading enthusiasm; zealous: an evangelical liberal.

n.
Evangelical A member of an evangelical church or party.

『基因煉獄』（台北：天下文化， 2004年5 月）出版時，不知怎的沒討論。現在指出原作可能的資料錯誤一處：第 149頁「聖神降臨」【 Pentecost】，作者認為是五塊（分散世界各地）。

我們查一下作者參觀過的「英國國家畫廊」之資料：

www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ cgi-bin/WebObjects...

可知這「耶穌生平」祭壇畫，似應是七塊：

All seven pieces of the altarpiece still exist. The other six scenes are the 'Nativity with Epiphany' (Metropolitan Museum, New York); the 'Presentation in the Temple' (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston); the 'Last Supper' and the 'Crucifixion' (both Alte Pinakothek, Munich); the 'Entombment' (Berenson Collection, Settignano); and the 'Descent into Limbo' (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).

Pentecostal

(pĕn'tĭ-kŏs'təl, -kô'stəl) adj.

1. Of, relating to, or occurring at Pentecost.
2. Of, relating to, or being any of various Christian religious congregations whose members seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit, in emulation of the Apostles at Pentecost.

n. A member of a Pentecostal congregation: “Pentecostals rejected the belief of many



e・van・gel・ic, e・van・gel・i・cal

━━ a., n. （時にE-） 福音書の［による］; 福音主義の; 福音（伝道）の; 福音主義者; （時にE-） 新教派の（人）.
e・van・gel・i・cal・ism　n. 福音主義（的信仰）.

synod 
noun [C] SPECIALIZED
a regular meeting of church members for the discussion of religious matters