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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
So--if Evangelicals are reacting to the enlightenment, who are their earliest progenitors? If, as I suspect, (though do set me straight if I'm wrong) their history begins in the 19th century, then why such a long time after the enlightenment?
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Well, considering that the Evangelical movement is an American movement - in that it started and is the strongest there - it's not that much of a stretch, I think, to view the Puritan colonists as the 'progenitors' of Evangelism. And the Puritans were contemporaneous with the Enlightenment and absolutely a reaction to it.