Less than half who claim either label have evangelical beliefs. Most likely: African Americans.
For all the handwringing over what the term evangelical means in the political moment of Donald Trump and Roy Moore, only 1 in 100 Americans would take on the term if it had nothing to do with politics.
Meanwhile, the label is primarily a political identity for only about 1 in 10 self-identified evangelicals.
Overall, 1 in 4 Americans today consider themselves to be evangelicals. But less than half actually hold evangelical beliefs.
And when defined by beliefs and not by identity, evangelicals are less white (58% vs. 70%), more black (23% vs. 14%), and more likely to worship weekly (73% vs. 61%). However, they are not more likely to be Republican or Democrat.
These are among the findings of a groundbreaking survey of Americans with evangelical beliefs, released today by LifeWay Research. Read More
What passes as "evangelicalism" in North America should not be confused with the classical evangelicalism of Charles Simeon, J.C. Ryle, Dyson Hague, J. I. Packer, Roger Beckwith, John Stott, Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, Michael Green, Alister McGrath, and other leading Anglican evangelicals.
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