Sentences with phrase «american evangelical traditions»

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

For some Christians within the North American evangelical tradition, the work of racial reconciliation can be boiled down to the idea that there is only one race, the human race.

Not exact matches

Evangelicals lack this clear tradition because, in part, they lack much of a tradition overall, being mostly a modern American movement that emerged out of several Protestant traditions.

Messiah College, an evangelical liberal arts institution with roots in the Men - nonite tradition, is sponsoring a project titled «Reforming the Center: Beyond the Two - Party System of American Protestantism.»

It is the evangelical preaching tradition, not the high - church tradition emphasizing sacrament and liturgy, that has shaped American communicative style, Balmer argued.

And Americans have become less likely to know an evangelical — more so than any other faith tradition.

In the past, the fundamentalist and evangelical traditions within Christianity have tended to stand in a counterculture relationship with American society while the mainline churches have been more identified as a culture - affirming religious tradition.

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.