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Conservative Christianity is often characterized by the following features:
- A belief in the authority of the Bible and a belief that it is a incontrovertible source of God's revelation to humankind. Bible prophecy is affirmed and Bible inerrancy is often affirmed.
- A central focus on Christ's redeeming work on the cross as the means for salvation and the forgiveness of sins.
- Encouragement of evangelism, the act of sharing one's beliefs - Organized missionary work or by personal evangelism.
- Traditional views on heaven and hell are often held.
- A greater willingness to believe the scientific consensus is errant when it is believed to be at variance with the Bible. Cases where the scientific consensus or Bible skeptics were wrong and the Bible was correct are given more emphasis. . Sometimes a belief in Biblical scientific foreknowledge is adhered to. The provisional nature of science is stressed rather than any current science community consensus. Biblical creationist interpretations of scientific data regarding origins are often adhered to.
Contemporary Conservative Protestant scholars/theologians include: Norman Geisler, FF Bruce, Gary Habermas, N.T. Wright, Kenneth Kitchen, Bruce Metzger, R. C. Sproul, Edwin M. Yamauchi,Merrill Unger, John Warwick Montgomery, Cornelius Van Til, Greg Bahnsen, and .
Popular writers and Christian apologetics include:
Earlier Conservative Protestant scholars/theologians include:
- John Wycliffe
- Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758) - preacher in the First Great Awakening
- John Wesley (1703 - 1791) - founder of Methodism
- Charles Wesley (1707 - 1788) - brother of John Wesley, hymnwriter of Methodism
- George Whitefield (1714 - 1770) - early Methodist preacher and associate of John Wesley
- Charles Grandison Finney (1792 - 1875) - a preacher in the Second Great Awakening
- Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, leaders in the Holiness movement
- Henry Venn (1725 - 1797) - founder of the small, but highly influential Clapham Sect in Britain. His grandson, also named Henry Venn (1796 - 1873), pioneered the basic principles of indigenous church mission theory.
- Oswald T. Allis (1856-1930)
- William Henry Green (1825 - 1900)
- James Orr (1844 - 1913)
- Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930)
- William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) Archaeologist