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Originally Posted by driveway
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.
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I see what you're saying, but I guess for me Puritans are the progenitors of "good works" Christians, like Methodists. I fully admit my understanding of this is pretty limited, but as I understand it Puritans weren't all that interested in evangelism as a measure of virtue. They wanted religious freedom, but they weren't really into missionary work or proselytizing in general.