Sentences with phrase «american evangelical»

Russia has already invaded Ukraine, mindful, as Hitler was, of its rich agricultural resources -LSB-...] American evangelical Christians decry the work of scientists.

And the clipping from an American evangelical magazine when he'd gone over to do the Southern university circuit.

After that, the possibilities for mutual understanding created unintentionally by American Evangelical missionaries disappeared, and hostility between the Islamic world and the rest of the globe returned, continuing to the present.

There is of course the opposite tradition, one that is dominant, at least vocally, within the current American evangelical movement, but at least mentioning the more peaceful tradition could have formed the basis of a defense.

I've also been struck by the idea that many American evangelical missionaries and missiologists, and perhaps the Apostle Paul himself, would be in danger of dismissal if they taught at Wheaton College, since many of us arguably have been guilty of the very thing Wheaton College is sanctioning.

Henry's dream for a great American evangelical university of national rank also failed to materialize.

For a compact but very able exposition of the classical Pentecostal churches in the Urited States, no better source can be named than Grant Wacker, «A Profile of American Pentecostalism,» to appear in a forthcoming volume to be edited by Timothy L. Smith et al., tentatively entitled The American Evangelical Mosaic.

They include American evangelical leader Rick Warren, former president of the Italian Senate, Marcello Pera, and Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon.

American commentators with European credibility should have been deployed throughout the continent, in person and through the electronic media, to challenge the virtually unchallenged cartoon of American evangelical cowboys running riot in the world» a cartoon that helps explain, at least in part, the vapors of Anglican bishops in Great Britain who imagine that Tim LaHaye's fictional speculations on the Book of Revelation play a formative role in U.S. foreign policy.

In recent years, Kirill and his «foreign minister,» Metropolitan Hilarion, have been mouthpieces for Russian president Vladimir Putin's efforts to reconstitute something like the old Soviet Union in the name of a «historic Russian space,» an exercise in Great Russian irredentism that has taken a particularly grave turn in Ukraine; concurrently, they've conducted a campaign of seduction in the Vatican and among American evangelical Protestants, putatively in service to a united front against western decadence and secularism.

Mormonism started in the same time and place as several American evangelical traditions like Pentecostal movements.

«American evangelical Christian evangelist, William Franklin «Billy» Graham, Jr., has a net worth of $ 25 million.»

Editor's note: CT has also gathered reactions from American evangelical leaders (mostly excited) and evangelist Luis Palau, who knows Bergoglio as a personal friend.

What a case study of the American evangelical broadcasters shows us is that in many ways the ideology of television shapes religion much more easily than religion shapes it.

Too often, American evangelical Christianity presents the good news of Christ as the solution to all human problems, the fulfillment of all wants, and a good way to make basically good people even better.

The seven titles I discuss here represent contemporary American evangelical perspectives on Islam.

As important as it is to seek out better ways of reading the Bible, I think we have to start by deconstructing a bit, and Smith does a good job of addressing what has become a troublesome hallmark of American evangelical culture — biblicism.

On one occasion a group of American evangelical volunteers traveled to Barahona to spend two weeks «working with the youth.»

The Israeli Labor Party, which governed Israel from its beginning as a state in 1946 until Prime Minister Menachem Begin took power in June, had avoided cultivating the kind of American evangelical support expressed in the recent newspaper ads because it knew that to engage in religious arguments over national boundaries would be self - defeating.

I remember before JWBush got into presidency, the ole slick weasel, Carl Rowe advised him to play «Jesus» card and blow his «religious» horn, telling him this is the sure way to win, since American Evangelical Christians are so gullible and they'll back up anyone who mentions the Name of Jesus and says that he / she is a Christian... «You shall know them by their fruit.

In both cases, vital and dynamic forms of Christianity came about through the merging of American evangelical forms and indigenous action.

At a constituting convention in 1962 the United Lutheran Church in America, the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Suomi Synod) united to form the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.

Dennis Smith is a mission worker for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and works as general coordinator of the Latin American Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies (CELEP).

He says he is desperate to be part of something that matters, and calls American evangelical culture» disgusting and anti-Christ!»

As Jonathan Dudley observes in a recent Belief Blog post, U.S. Catholic leaders began to take on abortion right after Roe v. Wade legalized it in 1973, but American evangelical leaders continued to teach that life begins at birth until the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In The American Evangelical Story, Douglas A. Sweeney writes, «Most black Christians, though evangelical by many definitions, resist identifying closely with the evangelical movement.

In the same interview, he answers that he does now define himself as a Christian, and he was recently the headline speaker at the American evangelical leadership event, Catalyst.

The Christian (of any stripe, but especially the American evangelical) lives in a unique culture.

American evangelical Christian pastor Rick Warren discusses homosexuality and gay marriage with CNN's Piers Morgan.

The Theological Tragedy: The American Evangelical leaders» explicit exclusion of LGBT + people and implicitly their advocates from the Church, Christianity, and Christ, and...

Buna Kibongi of the Evangelical Church of Congo, Kenneth Grubb of Church of England, and K.E. Skydsgaard of Denmark also raised similar concerns.15 According to A.F. Glasser, the North American Evangelical, the evangelical voice had not been heard at Uppsala.

I find it odd that the American evangelical producers would make the choice to cast a dark skinned man as Satan.

American Evangelical Christians seem, at times, to be afflicted by neurosis.

It honestly seems to me (and this would require a lot of discussion) that much of what you seem to be having an issue with is a problem in the American Evangelical church.

She is the author of «When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God.»

«If you are an Evangelical Christian, the fastest growing demographic in the American Evangelical community is embedded in the Hispanic church,» said Rodriguez, leader of the National Hispanic Leadership Conference.

CNN: My Take: If you hear God speak audibly, you (usually) aren't crazy Tanya Marie («T.M.») Luhrmann, psychological anthropologist and the author of «When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God,» explains that hearing the voice of God isn't as unusual as many would believe.

The blog is ABOUT belied in the modern world and is of great interest to those who consider the American evangelical community and certain other religious sects the source of some serious modern problems.

Most observers — both inside and outside the large and diverse subculture of North American evangelical Christianity — would probably answer yes.

Likewise, when Wheeler notes the apparent contradiction between «the preeminent emphasis on individual salvation so characteristic of... American evangelical Christianity, in particular,» and the process emphasis on the transformation (salvation) of the world as a whole,» he appears again to favor a compromise (110).

For those unfamiliar with recent American evangelical history, some background: Six or seven years ago, Calvinism became cool.

Randall Balmer's study of the American evangelical subculture.

A new mood, if not movement, in North American evangelical theology can be described as «postconservative.»

In their early days, when the Emergent Church was vying with the new Calvinism for pole position in the American evangelical world, they launched regular, and often very thorough, critiques of the Emergent leaders.

Why are American Evangelical Christians so stupid?

Legendary American evangelical author, speaker and leader Tony Campolo is shutting down the ministry he started almost 40 years ago.

From Karl: As someone who submitted as an adult to an ancient branch of the Christian faith, what do you make of the «emerging church» movement within (primarily) American evangelical and post-evangelical protestantism?

The support and interest to carry out the project — from AIPRAL (the Association of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches) and from staff of CELEP (Latin American Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies)-- was determinant in my decision to continue with plans for the publication of this book.

Another example of this approach is the American evangelical broadcasters.

David Wood, an American evangelical missionary who led Qureshi to Christ, has paid his respects to his close friend online.