Pew Forum On Religion & Public Life / U.S. Religious Landscape Survey
PEW FORUM ON RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE
RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE STUDY (RLS)
May 8 – August 13, 2007
N=35,556 (# of people sampled)
These survey results contain responses from people with very different beliefs and presumably with different worldviews [link to previous discussion on worldview]. Most pertinent to us, are the figures on protestant Christians. I’m not sure exactly how they defined “Evangelical Christian” and “Mainline Protestant Christian” and I don’t know exactly where we would fall by those unknown definitions. In fact, it is hard to find any consensus definition for “Evangelical Christian”. I think we can all handle the term evangelical as an adjective, as in the dictionary definition of “pertaining to or in keeping with the gospel and its teachings”, but as a separate denomination?
Wikipedia gives us the following -- Evangelicalism: Most adherents consider its key characteristics to be: a belief in the need for personal conversion (or being "born again"); some expression of the gospel in effort; a high regard for Biblical authority; and an emphasis on the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Regardless of how you define Evangelicalism and Mainline Protestant Christianity, the results of the Pew survey are interesting…
Which comes closest to your view of God? God is a person with whom people can have a
relationship or God is an impersonal force?
Survey Results:
“Mainline Protestant”:
Personal – 62%
Impersonal force – 26%
Other/Both/Neither – 4%
Don’t know – 4%
“Evangelical”:
79/13/4/3
Bible: II Corinthians 6:14-18
Do you believe in life after death?
78/14/7
86/10/3
John 3:16
Do you think there is a heaven, where people who have led good lives are eternally
rewarded?
77/12/7
86/6/2
II Corinthians 5:1
Do you think there is a hell, where people who have led bad lives and die without being
sorry are eternally punished?
56/30/11
82/10/4
2 Peter 2:4-9
Matthew 5:21-22
My religion is the one, true faith leading to eternal life,
OR
Many religions can lead to eternal life
12/83/4
36/57/5
John 6:35 & 14:6
PEW FORUM ON RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE
RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE STUDY (RLS)
May 8 – August 13, 2007
N=35,556 (# of people sampled)
These survey results contain responses from people with very different beliefs and presumably with different worldviews [link to previous discussion on worldview]. Most pertinent to us, are the figures on protestant Christians. I’m not sure exactly how they defined “Evangelical Christian” and “Mainline Protestant Christian” and I don’t know exactly where we would fall by those unknown definitions. In fact, it is hard to find any consensus definition for “Evangelical Christian”. I think we can all handle the term evangelical as an adjective, as in the dictionary definition of “pertaining to or in keeping with the gospel and its teachings”, but as a separate denomination?
Wikipedia gives us the following -- Evangelicalism: Most adherents consider its key characteristics to be: a belief in the need for personal conversion (or being "born again"); some expression of the gospel in effort; a high regard for Biblical authority; and an emphasis on the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Regardless of how you define Evangelicalism and Mainline Protestant Christianity, the results of the Pew survey are interesting…
Which comes closest to your view of God? God is a person with whom people can have a
relationship or God is an impersonal force?
Survey Results:
“Mainline Protestant”:
Personal – 62%
Impersonal force – 26%
Other/Both/Neither – 4%
Don’t know – 4%
“Evangelical”:
79/13/4/3
Bible: II Corinthians 6:14-18
Do you believe in life after death?
78/14/7
86/10/3
John 3:16
Do you think there is a heaven, where people who have led good lives are eternally
rewarded?
77/12/7
86/6/2
II Corinthians 5:1
Do you think there is a hell, where people who have led bad lives and die without being
sorry are eternally punished?
56/30/11
82/10/4
2 Peter 2:4-9
Matthew 5:21-22
My religion is the one, true faith leading to eternal life,
OR
Many religions can lead to eternal life
12/83/4
36/57/5
John 6:35 & 14:6
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