Sentences with phrase «american evangelical world»

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.

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One might look, for example, at From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate, by neoliberal Protestants Don Browning, Bonnie Miller - McLemore, Pamela Couture, Bernie Lyon and Robert Franklin; Gender and Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World, by evangelical Protestant Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen; and Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics, by Catholic Lisa Sowle Cahill.

Was it ordained before the foundation of the world that the year 2015, which saw the rise of Donald Trump's candidacy and his clumsy attempts to establish Evangelical bona fides, should also see the publication of the long - awaited first volume of In the Beginning Was the Word, Mark Noll's history of the Bible in American public life?

Much of the American Christian Evangelical world would say «Amen» to your theology, so I guess that can be comforting too.

Barr, an Englishman, far removed from American evangelicalism both geographically and theologically, illustrates his contention by discussing the perennial issues of Calvinism / Arminianism, Millennialism, and Pentecostalism have centered my thinking in this book on some of the more immediate theological controversies that are causing ferment in the evangelical world.

It is a little - known fact among American Christians that Pike was not only an evangelical missionary and Bible translator but also one of the world's top linguistic scientists of the 20th century.

He has decidedly mixed feelings about the book and ends with this: «In the end, Chafets» effort misses the mark for the same reason that Jewish opining about Evangelicals is misguided: the limits of seeing the evangelical world merely through the lens of Jewish - Christian and / or Israeli / American relations.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

Turner shares a widespread skepticism about whether the evangelical thinkers will make much of an impact on the large and multifarious worlds of evangelicalism, but of this he is more certain: «That [they have] made, and will continue to make, a substantial mark on American academic life seems indisputable, especially in history, philosophy, and, more recently, sociology.

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).

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.

For Noll, this reflects both American evangelicals» ingenuity and skill with modern technology and the amazing initiative of third - world churches in distributing the film.

Whether American evangelicals were up to the challenges of this rapidly changing world was an open question.

Americans are more worried about Islamic extremism internationally, with three - quarters of white evangelicals saying they're «very concerned» about the impact of these views around the world, Pew wrote.

I saw a cultural Christianity with preachers who often gained audiences, locally in church meetings or globally on television, by saying crazy and buffoonish things, simply to stir up the base and to gain attention from the world, whether that was claiming to know why God sent hurricanes and terrorist attacks or claiming that American founders, one of whom possibly impregnated his own human slaves and literally cut the New Testament apart, were orthodox, Evangelical Christians who, like us, stood up for traditional family values.

They interpret Lecrae's and Tisby's moves as cultural compromise just as Lecrae and Tisby have concluded that the white and Reformed evangelical world have sold out to American religion.

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.

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.

This year's schedule included a troubling look at the invasion of Uganda by American evangelicals (God Loves Uganda), profiles of reliable boogeymen like Dick Cheney (The World According to Dick Cheney) and the Koch Brothers (Citizen Koch), celebrations of Robert Reich (Inequality for All), Occupy (99 %: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film) and WikiLeaks (We Steal Secrets), and After Tiller, a remarkable all - access look at the four remaining third - trimester abortion providers, and the tough choices made every day within their walls.

In practice, this means that Americans generally, and especially the increasingly influential evangelical community, must develop a better sense of America's place in the world.

The project was funded by American Baptist Churches World Relief, Church of the Brethren, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) Hunger Program, Micah Challenge USA - micahchallenge.org, Tabitha Fund of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (St. Louis Province), Thrivent Financial Services (Woodbury County, Iowa, Chapter), as well as Members of Alternatives for Simple Living.