Sentences with phrase «anabaptist social»
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The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).
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Some social historians identify similar developments in the militant Anabaptist movements of the late medieval and early Reformation periods.
According to Waldstein, the alternative in contemporary Protestant social thought would be either radical pacifism and anarchism in the Anabaptist tradition or the institutional gradualism of the Reformed tradition.
Charles Scriven in The Transformation of Culture: Christian Social Ethics After H. Richard Niebuhr, argues that the Anabaptist position provides the most adequate means to transform culture.
In a Memorandum of 1536, he and Melancthon advised Philip of Hesse that Anabaptists by their rejection of government, private property and other social structures were in effect guilty of deliberate sedition, and this in spite of the hesitations of Philip of Hesse himself.
Yet evangelicalism transcends its core beliefs and has a history of its people and that means there's some sociology or social description in this term so that it refers to America's Calvinist and revivalist and holiness and Anabaptist impulses.
Other exemptions: Also exempt are members of Indian tribes, persons with only brief gaps in coverage, and members of certain religious groups currently exempt from Social Security taxes (which as we've previously reported are chiefly Anabaptist — that is, Mennonite, Amish or Hutterite).