现代的福音派历史可追溯至18世纪的敬虔主义(Pietism)运动。虔敬主义要求无论神职人员还是平信徒都应该用严格的道德标准约束自己。这一观念很大程度上被现代的福音派吸收[11]。19世纪末至20世纪初,随自由主义神学发展,与之相对的基要主义神学(即基本教义派,持圣经绝对无误等主张)也逐步成形。1910年前后,福音派运动开始拥抱基要主义神学,但后来也逐渐在一些问题上采取相对温和、折衷的问题,以免被冠以狭隘、不宽容的印象[12][13]。从这一时期开始,福音派也开始注意使用现代手段传播福音,开始使用电视、收音机等现代工具进行“电视布道(英语:Televangelism)”[14]。1942年,随基要主义者建立美国基督教会理事会(英语:American Council of Christian Churches)(ACCC),美国福音派建立持续至今在福音派中依然举足轻重的全国福音派协会(NAE),并提出积极参与社会议题、反对教会分裂,以及鼓励教会间交流等区别于保守基要派的主张。
Christian Scholar's Review, Volume 27. Hope College. 1997: 205 (English). This was especially true of proto-evangelical movements like the Quakers, organized as the Religious Society of Friends by George Fox in 1668 as a group of Christians who rejected clerical authority and taught that the Holy Spirit guided 引文格式1维护:未识别语文类型 (link)
Angell, Stephen Ward; Dandelion, Pink. The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism. Cambridge University Press. 2018-04-19: 293. ISBN 978-1-107-13660-1(English). 引文格式1维护:未识别语文类型 (link)
Quaker History, Volumes 94-95. Friends Historical Association. 2005: 46 (English). Emma Malone, active in the evangelical Quaker community in Cleveland, co-founded (with her husband) the Christian Workers Training School. This school helped to train the leadership of evangelical Quakers 引文格式1维护:未识别语文类型 (link)
Angell, Stephen Ward; Dandelion, Pink. The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism. Cambridge University Press. 2018-04-19: 290. ISBN 978-1-107-13660-1(英语). Contemporary Quakers worldwide are predominately evangelical and are often referred to as the Friends Church.
Wilkinson, John Laurence. Church in Black and White. Saint Andrew Press. 1993: 40. ISBN 978-3-89144-301-9(English). This powerful spiritual awakening resulted in an amazing worldwide upsurge that firmly planted evangelical Christianity in the Caribbean, and the Moravian Church as an important element in West Indian life. Next came the Methodist... 引文格式1维护:未识别语文类型 (link)
Kidd, Thomas S. Who Is an Evangelical?. Yale University Press. 2019-09-24: 4. ISBN 978-0-300-24141-9(English). What does it mean to be evangelical? The simple answer is that evangelical Christianity is the religion of the born again. 引文格式1维护:未识别语文类型 (link)
Bauder, Kevin, Fundamentalism, Naselli, Andrew; Hansen, Collin (编), Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan: 549, 2011, ISBN 978-0-310-55581-0
Olson, Roger, Postconservative Evangelicalism, Naselli, Andrew; Hansen, Collin (编), Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan: 242, 2011, ISBN 978-0-310-55581-0