Moderate Christianity is characterized by its concern to bring hope, to include cultural diversity and creative collaboration, by not being
fundamentalist or
liberal, predominantly
conservative and avoids
extremism in its decisions.[4][5][6][7]
Catholicism
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Moderate
Catholicism mainly became visible in the 18th century, with Catholic groups taking more moderate positions, such as supporting
ecumenism and liturgical reforms.[8] These moderates are also overwhelmingly in favor of state autonomy and the independence of Church doctrine from the state.[9] After
Vatican Council II, moderate Catholics distanced themselves from
traditionalist Catholicism.[10]
^ William MacDonald, Believer's Bible Commentary, Thomas Nelson Inc, USA, 2008, p. 2087
^Sébastien Fath, Du ghetto au réseau: Le protestantisme évangélique en France, 1800-2005, Édition Labor et Fides, Genève, 2005, p. 160
^ Stephen R. Rock, Faith and Foreign Policy: The Views and Influence of U.S. Christians and Christian Organizations, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, USA, 2011, p. 12
^Klauspeter Blaser, Les théologies nord-américaines, Labor et Fides, Genève, 1995, p. 46
^Jacques Prévotat, Jean Vavasseur-Desperriers, Les chrétiens modérés en France et en Europe (1870-1960), Presses Univ. Septentrion, France, 2013, p. 15
^ J. Derek Holmes, Bernard Bickers, A Short History of the Catholic Church, Burns & Oates, UK, 2002, p. 179
^ Jacques Prévotat, Jean Vavasseur-Desperriers, Les chrétiens modérés en France et en Europe (1870-1960), Presses Univ. Septentrion, France, 2013, p. 16
^ Timothy Miller, America's Alternative Religions, SUNY Press, USA, 1995, p. 104
^ Robert H. Krapohl, Charles H. Lippy, The Evangelicals: A Historical, Thematic, and Biographical Guide, Greenwood Publishing Group, USA, 1999, p. 197
^ David R. Swartz, Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism, University of Pennsylvania Press, USA, 2012, p. 18
^ George Thomas Kurian, Mark A. Lamport, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, Volume 5, Rowman & Littlefield, USA, 2016, p. 929
^ George Demetrion, In Quest of a Vital Protestant Center: An Ecumenical Evangelical Perspective, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2014, p. 128
^Roger E. Olson, The Westminster Handbook to Evangelical Theology, Westminster John Knox Press, USA, 2004, p. 49
^ James Leo Garrett, Baptist Theology: A Four-century Study, Mercer University Press, USA, 2009, p. 45
^ Robert Warner, Reinventing English Evangelicalism, 1966-2001: A Theological and Sociological Study, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2007, p. 229
^J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, ABC-CLIO, USA, 2010, p. 1081-1082
^Axel R. Schäfer, Countercultural Conservatives: American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to the New Christian Right, University of Wisconsin Press, USA, 2011, p. 50-51