Sentences with phrase «american evangelicalism»

If you want to see how American evangelicalism has lost its way, you need look no farther than Billy Graham and his son Franklin.

There are neglected impulses toward Christian unity latent within the conservative, and even fundamentalist, sector of American evangelicalism: a passionate concern for theological truth - telling, an unflinching allegiance to the holy scriptures, an evangelistic and missionary impulse to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with all persons everywhere, an ecclesiological postulate of an invisible church known only to God.

American evangelicalism certainly appears comparatively robust.

The problem is that in the context of American evangelicalism, where religious images are often absent, pop - culture representations of the faith can become the formative symbols and images that a faith community encounters.

Answering this sort of question would perhaps have helped confirm what is central and what is peripheral in American evangelicalism.

What I admire about Frank is his ability to maintain a distance from all the ephemera of American evangelicalism without discarding his faith.

For both critical and appreciative critical responses, see the Center for Process Studies bibliography, «Process Thought, Anglo - American Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism.»

Randall Balmer, professor at Columbia University, identified himself as our guide and as an ambassador for American evangelicalism.

American evangelicalism has become this huge voting bloc — for right or wrong — with the potential of swaying entire elections.

I find American evangelicalism to be secularized in its attitude toward history.

There is a tendency within American evangelicalism to avoid saying what the Bible really means — or even what you really mean, as Eugene Peterson's recent embarrassing flap demonstrated.

We can try pruning away the patriarchal elements of American evangelicalism or we could try a scorched earth approach, she says, but the most effective thing we can do is participate in the life - giving and subversive act of planting new trees:

(See Boz Tchividjian's response to the continued culture of silence and protection in American evangelicalism.)

While not the definitive «Who's Who» of American evangelicalism (there are no Grahams or Warrens or Jakes present), the list is far from a «Who's That?»

Marsden and several other fine historians have served in just this way through their scholarly studies of American evangelicalism.

First, the resurgence of Reformed theology in American evangelicalism and fundamentalism — commonly referred to as the Neo-Reformed movement — is a belligerent movement.

Nor am I here discounting the crucially important role that the Bible must play in the life of the church and the lives of individual Christians... What I say here is simply that the Biblicism that in much of American evangelicalism is presupposed to be the cornerstone to Christian truth and faithfulness is misguided and impossible.

The Pentecostal theologian Dale Coulter continues his analysis of the intellectual, and anti-intellectual, heritage of American Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, described in Mark Noll Got It Wrong, Maybe.

One of the tenants of American evangelicalism is the submission of women to men based on a misinterpretation of the Bible.

«Jesus is God» is a fairly recent misinterpretation by Modern American Evangelicalism.

If the traits he picks out from American evangelicalism make it a manifestation of fascism, then the entire classical tradition of Christianity is fascist, too.

Noll argues that all this new Christianity has been shaped largely by American evangelicalism, and he suggests that the crucial elements are American forms, not American influence.

That's always been the problem with Modern American Evangelicalism — which isn't Christianity.

The breadth of his list serves as a reminder of the wide reach of American evangelicalism, from the institutional leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention to the prosperity gospel preachers made famous through Christian TV programming.

Thus «salvation» from the Latin salvos (healing), «atonement» (at - one - meet), an Anglo - Saxon word traditional in British and American evangelicalism, or «redemption,» expressing our release from the dominant causal efficacy of past sinful actions.

While the impact of Chick's career is difficult to estimate (fortunately, he appears to have had very few disciples), he was nonetheless a fascinating embodiment of both American evangelicalism's sins and its virtues.

His evangelical ties: Falwell Jr. carries one of the biggest family names in American evangelicalism, and has led the country's biggest evangelical university through unprecedented growth.

American evangelicalism, my own tradition, rightly emphasizes the biblical truth that the gospel is good news, that our sins are forgiven in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

I have not really been a part of American evangelicalism, and I must admit that looking at it from the outside is interesting....

The sin of racism has proved especially pernicious in American evangelicalism on both sides of the border, but there have also been evangelicals throughout history who have found themselves on the front lines of the fight against racism.

In recent years some of these Calvinist thinkers have achieved the status of being something like the theological brain trust of American evangelicalism, but that development is now in the process of being critically reexamined in the light of responses to «Evangelicals and Catholics Together.»

«The history of American evangelicalism is critical in understanding how many things Clinton stands for that contradict the deeply held values of politically engaged evangelicals since the 1960s,» said Kristin Du Mez, a historian at Calvin College and the author of a forthcoming book about Hillary Clinton's faith.

North American evangelicalism is less so, but the next generation appears to be moving away from cessationism.

While the reader may wonder how effectively the book will serve to dispel the stereotypical view of American evangelicalism, at the very least it illustrates the diversity of the movement and so should serve to calm those who worry that evangelicals stand poised to reconquer American culture.

Balmer, a teacher of American religious history at Columbia who in his own words «grew up fundamentalist,» has produced a description of popular American evangelicalism that is at once skeptical and yet full of keen perceptions.

But American Evangelicalism is more (and sometimes much less) than that.

Balmer makes a great many stops in his tour of American evangelicalism.

The recent revelation that Mars Hill Church in Seattle paid an outside company to boost sales of its pastor's books has raised questions not simply about personal integrity but also about the very culture of American Evangelicalism.

The episode ends with Frank laughing introspectively about American evangelicalism: «We are sorry bastards.

«The «biblicism» that pervades much of American evangelicalism is untenable and needs to be abandoned in favor of a better approach to Christian truth and authority,» he concludes.

She writes about coming of age in the apologetics / Moral Majority world of American evangelicalism (so fascinating!)

Modern American evangelicalism emerged in the late 19th century, built around biblical literalism and an emphasis on human sin and redemption.

From Enns: «As a biblical scholar who deals with the messy parts of the Bible (i.e., the Old Testament), I came away with one recurring impression, a confirmation of my experience in these matters: mainstream American evangelicalism, as codified in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, doesn't really know what to do with the Bible as a historical text.»

But I worry that those of us who are inclined to be boorish academics forget the very real, non-theoretical America (and American evangelicalism!)

The global vision of American evangelicalism began in an improbable place, 1950s South Korea, as Americans encountered people like Pun Hui Pak.

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.

(James 1:27) The global vision of American evangelicalism began in an improbable place, 1950s South Korea, as Americans encountered....

Likewise, the experience of Korea catalyzed a change taking place within American evangelicalism.

Although the subject matter of inspiration has been judged as of crucial importance, creative theological formulations have been made difficult within American evangelicalism for at least two reasons.

Over the last several decades, the SBC's public profile has increased significantly due to the actions of its leaders and as a result of the media scrutiny that has come from solidly positioning itself on the conservative wing of American evangelicalism.