Protestantism. The Evangelical Explosion

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Now identified mainly with Fundamentalism, the Evangelical movement that began in 18th-century Britain was an exuberant expression of Protestantism that quickly spread across the globe. What made it so compelling that slaves and slave-owners, the poor and the powerful alike, embraced it in America, Africa, and Asia? This program studies the cultural, theological, and political framework of the Evangelical movement and the branches of Protestantism that it produced. Beginning with the influence of the Moravians, it covers John Wesley's Methodism, Jonathan Edwards and the first two Great Awakenings, the impact of the American Revolution, and the linking of politics, capitalism, and Protestantism in the new nation's ascendency. The video also goes to Africa to examine the establishment of Protestantism there, and to South Korea to discuss the Prosperity Gospel with the founder of the world's largest Pentecostal congregation.