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Altar Call (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
Wikipedia's article on the altar call, the evangelical invitation to come forward, consulted 2026-08-11. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on the altar call, the evangelical invitation to come forward, the lower tier reflecting that it is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, reliable for standard identifying facts and less reliable for its contested history and theological rationale across denominations, which a dedicated scholarly source would need to settle. NotesWikipedia's article on the altar call, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for the practice's 1830s American origin under the revivalist Charles Grandison Finney, and for its account of a live, named dispute among evangelicals today (Rick Warren's objection and Reformed churches' objection weighed against the continuing ministries of Billy Sunday, D. L. Moody and Billy Graham), standard reference facts distinct from the atlas's existing Encyclopedia of Religion and Oxford Dictionary citations.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar_call
Source Typereference
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This source names Evangelical directly: "ipedia's article on the altar call, the evangelical invitation to come forward, consulted 2..."
Source Altar Call (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Practices, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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