A new mood, if not movement, in North
American evangelical theology can be described as «postconservative.»
Not exact matches
And what historical
evangelical theology is communicated by paintings of cottages printed on mousepads, and T - shirts that print Scripture pulled from context across an
American flag or keychains, or romance novels minus the sex?
Lewis
theology aside (an
evangelical against purgatory seems axiomatic) the reason
Americans didn't pick up on Lewis was because if his personal habits?
Much of the
American Christian
Evangelical world would say «Amen» to your
theology, so I guess that can be comforting too.
Donald W. Dayton is associate professor of historical
theology at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Illinois, and chair of the steering committee of the
evangelical theology section of the
American Academy of Religion.
The rest of
American Christianity, continuing its movement of convergence, would then become increasingly open to learn from the
evangelicals: first, to re-examine the spiritual dynamics of individual rebirth in Christ, and later to strive for a more complete submission of
theology to the mind of Christ expressed in Scripture.
When I use the word «Christian» in the article, I'm not talking about the young woman's
theology, which is Bible - based and may be closer to the
American evangelical than, say, the liberal Episcopalian pastor down the street!
Asked to characterize the
American groups, sometimes called «orthodox Episcopalians,» Leslie Fairfield, professor of church history at Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, said in an interview: «In general, they are Anglo - Catholic in liturgy,
evangelical in
theology and charismatic in piety.»
I was at a Native
American Theology conference when one of the white participants stated that we should abandon terms like
evangelical and Christian.
For example, the report notes that «though the African
American Protestant population is overwhelmingly
evangelical in
theology and orientation, it is often separated out of polls seeking to identify the political preferences of
evangelicals.»
How will
evangelicals mediate between their secure North
American white base, with
theologies born of Western philosophy, to Asian and African matrices?
Coming out of the 1960s, therefore, conservative Protestant
theology including that of the
evangelical broadcasters was strong in its affirmation of traditional
American culture, including the values of free - enterprise capitalism and the validity of capitalism's monetary rewards.
These include an
evangelical theology of «born again» conversion; a
theology of
American exceptionalism as grounded in the virtue of compassion; a Calvinist
theology of vocation; and a Manichaean dualism of good and evil.