The 25 most influential evangelicals in america

摘要

There is no pope, no central ruling body. American Evangelicalism—with its home-schooling Fundamentalists and PTA-attending megachurch moms, its neo-Calvinists and Pentecostals, its multiple denominations and thousands of unaffiliated churches-seems to defy unity, let alone hierarchy. Yet its members share basic commitments: to the divinity and saving power of Jesus, to personal religious conversion, to the Bibles authority and to the spreading of the Gospel. Those same understandings unite the generation of influential leaders who channel conservative Christianity's overflowing energies. TIME'S list of 25, composed with the help of preachers, politicians, scholars and activists, deliberately leaves out some familiar figures—Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Don Wildmon—whose stories are well known. Instead, we focus on those whose influence is on the rise or who have carved out a singular role for themselves. The following pages serve as a primer to their growing force in American life.