It is curious to note that the American Evangelical Christian movement is of VERY recent origin. It began in the tent revival meetings in the "old South" in the 1830's. It was partially a reaction to the Transcendentalist movement in early America characterized by the writings of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Before that time, there were no people living in North America (or anywhere else in the world) that would characterize themselves as "Evangelical" or "Born Again." To this day, the United States of America is almost the only country on Earth that has a sizable (or in most cases even "countable") population of people who would characterize themselves as "Evangelical" or "Born Again."
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William Schaeffer
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