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NEESING - NEW EVANGELICAL

NEESING. From an unused root meaning to sneeze NETTLE. A wild, noxious, thorny weed (Pv. 24:31; Is.
(Strong) (Job 41:18). 34:13; Zep. 2:9).
NEGINAH, NEGINOTH. [See Music.] NEVER A. Not a (2 Ch. 21:17; Jud. 14:3; Mt. 27:14).
NEHELAMITE (a dreamer). Je. 29:24. NEVER SO. (1) So very; exceedingly (Ge. 34:12; Job
NEHEMIAH (consolation of the Lord). Ne. 1:1. 9:30; Ps. 58:5). (2) Not (Mt. 9:33).
NEHILOTH (perforated). To be sang with the NEW BIRTH. [See Believe, Born Again, Gospel,
accompaniment of the flute and similar wind Repentance.]
instruments (Ps. 5: Title). [See Music.] NEW COVENANT. [See Covenant.]
NEHUM (compassion). Ne. 7:7. NEW EVANGELICAL, NEW EVANGELICALISM.
NEHUSHTA (brazen fetter, brass). 2 Ki. 24:8. New Evangelicalism is a movement of theological
NEHUSHTAN. [See Brass Serpent, Idolatry.] compromise that began in the late 1940s and that has
NEIEL (the moving of God). Jos. 19:27. spread throughout evangelical Christianity. The
founders of New Evangelicalism grew up in
NEIGHING. To whinny, like a horse (Je. 5:8; 8:16). Fundamentalist homes. They were a new generation.
God compared apostate Israel’s adulterous yearnings to “And also all that generation were gathered unto their
a male horse neighing after the female (Je. 5:8; 13:27). fathers: and there arose another generation after them,
NEITHER YET. Neither; also not (2 Ch. 1:11; Ro. which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he
4:19). had done for Israel” (Judges 2:10). In the first half of the
NEKEB (a hole, cave). Jos. 19:33. 20th century, Evangelicalism in America was largely
NEKODA (distinguished). Ezr. 2:48. synonymous with Fundamentalism.
NEMUEL (circumcised of God). Nu. 26:12. Many historians make this connection, including
NEPHEG (a bud). 2 Sa. 5:15. Mark Ellingsen (The Evangelical Movement) and George
Marsden (Reforming Fundamentalism). Marsden says,
NEPHEW. Offspring; descendant. The term “There was not a practical distinction between
“nephew” in the King James Bible is used differently fundamentalist and evangelical: the words were
than it is today. It refers to a grandchild rather than to interchangeable” (p. 48).
the son of a brother or sister (Jud. 12:14; Job 18:19; Is.
When the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE)
14:22; 1 Ti. 5:4). was formed in 1942, for example, participants included
NEPHISHESIM (torn in pieces, scatter). Ne. 7:52. such Fundamentalist leaders as Bob Jones, Sr., John R.
NEPHTHALIM (strugglings). Mt. 4:13. Rice, Charles Woodbridge, Harry Ironside, and David
NEPHTOAH (opening). Jos. 15:9. Otis Fuller.
NEPHUSIM (enlargements). Ezr. 2:50. By the mid-1950s, though, a clear break between
NER (candle, lamp). 1 Ch. 9:36. separatist Fundamentalists and non-separatist
NEREUS (light). Ro. 16:15. Evangelicals occurred. This was occasioned largely by
NERGAL (2 Ki. 17:30). [See Idolatry.] the ecumenical evangelism of Billy Graham. The
stronger men dropped out of the NAE. The terms
NERGAL SHAREZER (Nergal, the splendor of evangelicalism and fundamentalism began “to refer to
brightness). Je. 39:3. two different movements” (William Martin, A Prophet
NERI (light). Lk. 3:27. with Honor, p. 224).
NERIAH (the light of the Lord). Je. 32:12. The sons of Evangelical-Fundamentalist preachers
NETHANEEL (God gave). Nu. 1:8. determined to create a “New Evangelicalism.” They
NETHANIAH (given of the Lord). 1 Ch. 25:12. would not be fighters; they would be diplomats, positive
NETHER. lower (Jos. 16:3; 1 Ki. 6:6). The nether in their emphasis rather than militant, infiltrators rather
millstone was the largest and heaviest of the two stones than separatists. They would not be restricted by a
used to grind grain (De. 24:6). [See Millstone.] separationist mentality.
Harold Ockenga claimed to have coined the term
NETHERMOST. Lowest (1 Ki. 6:6). “new evangelical” in 1948. Ockenga was pastor of Park
NETHINIMS. A class of persons employed as Street Church in Boston, founder of the National
servants or assistants to the Levites; probably the Association of Evangelicals, co-founder and first
Gibeonites and others reduced to servitude (Young) (1 president of Fuller Theological Seminary, first president
Ch. 9:2; Ezr. 2:43, 58, 70; 7:7, 24; 8:17, 20; Ne. 3:26, of the World Evangelical Fellowship, president of
31; 7:46, 60, 73; 10:28; 11:3, 21). [See Levites.] Gordon College, on the board of directors for the Billy
NETOPHAH (dropping, flowing). Ezr. 2:22. Graham Evangelistic Association, and chairman of the

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