Sentences with phrase «christian evangelical movement»

I love US Media, attacking the corrupted Catholic church for the gain of the other corrupted religion christian evangelical movement,

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Complicating matters further is Osteen's association with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life as well as the next.

It is a thinly disguised attempt by the Evangelical Christian movement to present their religious beliefs as such.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

And white evangelical Protestants, the base of the Christian Right, are roughly five times more likely to agree with the Tea Party movement than to disagree with it, according to a Pew survey analysis released earlier this year.

Christianity Today's editor in chief considers what it means to be an evangelical Christian today, drawing on the movement's history, theology, and spirituality.

As Richard Rohr said, «the evangelical support of Trump will be an indictment against its validity as a Christian movement for generations to come.»

For all of its diversity and debate, as a renewal movement, Evangelicalism can facilitate conversions that lead persons back to the Great Tradition if Evangelicals themselves remain committed to the cultivation of a broad Christian culture.

This evangelical attitude came as a shock, for initially I had thought that the movement was simply a «Jews for Jesus» extension of previous Hebrew Christian evangelistic organizations that also had been opposed by both Christians and Jews.

In his mid-20s, he became an evangelical Christian, and a few years after that, he was recruited into the abolition movement in England.

It is fascinating that the movement would arise in the American branch of the Hebrew Christian Alliance (HCAA), an organization that has consistently assuaged the fears of fundamentalist Christians by emphasizing that it is not a separate denomination but only an evangelistic arm of the evangelical church.

Actually it is a movement within a movement, a splinter group in the uneasy alliance of charismatics, fundamentalists and miscellaneous evangelicals who make up the Christian right.

She later converted to become an evangelical Christian and joined the pro-life movement saying her part in the legalisation of abortion «was the biggest mistake of my life».

From Karl: As someone who submitted as an adult to an ancient branch of the Christian faith, what do you make of the «emerging church» movement within (primarily) American evangelical and post-evangelical protestantism?

On the other hand, pentecostally oriented evangelical churches, such as the Johannesburg - based Rhema Church movement, as well as the African indigenous churches, such as the Zion Christian Church (whose worldview is an amalgam of Christian teaching and traditional African religious expression), have experienced an explosion of membership.

And this, I see, is the dangerous allure of «evangelical celebrity»: How easy it is for Christians to convince ourselves that our causes / our ministries / our «tribes» need us, that we are too important to the movement to bother with things like silence, accountability, rest, patience, and respect for those with whom we disagree.

If anything, Trump's candidacy is revealing the inner secularization of the evangelical movement, where evangelical no longer means something many would recognize as properly Christian, Westminster Seminary — California professor Michael Horton wrote for CT..

The evangelical movement's strength has always been its centripetal force — the power of its central theological and missional premises to unite those from drastically different Christian traditions.

While 17 percent of American Christians openly identify with the movement, the «health and wealth» gospel gets dismissed and critiqued by most mainstream evangelical leaders.

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These jokers try to convince people that our Founding Fathers were evangelical Christians even though the evangelical «born again» movement didn't gain momentum until the 20th century.

The biggest accomplishment of the Evangelical movement has been convincing millions of people that selfishness, greed, hate, and war are Christian virtues.

Thank you for pointing out how deviant the evangelical Christian movement has become in the US.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

He sees the evangelical christian movement for what it is.

Social scientists have repeatedly surveyed views of various religions and movements, and Americans consistently hold evangelical Christians in reasonably high regard.

• Even if one agrees with Mark Noll, who is perhaps the most distinguished Evangelical historian we have, Dale at least offers a helpful insight into the history and thought of a movement most other Christians in America tend to dismiss as rubes, fundamentalists, reactionaries, crazies (snake handling?

Almost 1 in 4 evangelicals (23 %) say they do not support the BLM movement, more than practicing Christians (13 %) or those who attended church in the past week (14 %).

When 16,000 college students gathered at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's latest Urbana conference to talk about missions, one of the main debates became how evangelicals should engage with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

Rhonda Kelley, co-editor of the New Evangelical Women's Commentary, said this of young Christian women today: «Not only do they not have a framework, but in many situations our women students have been raised by mothers who were a product of the feminist movement.

As I mentioned in the last post, those of us raised in the conservative evangelical subculture during the apologetics movement of the 80s and 90s grew up with the charge to «always be ready to give an answer» in defense of the Christian faith.

Even after I invited several black and gay Christians to the blog to explain just how hurtful the «I Stand With Phil» movement was to them, many evangelical readers brushed it off as no big deal.

Billed as a «grassroots Christian disarmament movement,» 2FP's goal is to educate the broader evangelical community about the possibility of a future world without nuclear weapons and to provide ideas and avenues for advocacy.

These were largely voluntary movements made up of individual participants rather than churches, movements such as the Evangelical Alliance, the Student Volunteer Movement for missions, and the World Student Christian Federation.

And Americans are among the most glum of all, with more than eight out of 10 evangelical Christian leaders there saying that the movement is losing influence in the United States today.

The convenient and specious separation of form and content in worship often lies at the heart of the broader Evangelical movement as a means of facilitating inter-church alliances and building consensus has, I suspect, spilled over into other Christian traditions too.

He encouraged evangelical protestants to engage current events and be part of social movements, leading a charge for Christians to retake a mantle of influence in global affairs.

The Armor of Light Directed by Abigail Disney (USA)-- World Premiere, Documentary This inspiring documentary digs into the deep affinity between the evangelical Christian movement and our country's gun culture — and how one top minister and anti-abortion activist undergoes a change of consciousness to challenge prevailing attitudes toward firearms among his fellow Christians.

This inspiring documentary digs into the deep affinity between the evangelical Christian movement and America's gun culture — and how one top minister and anti-abortion activist undergoes a change of consciousness to challenge prevailing attitudes toward firearms among his fellow Christians.

The first consists of Christian schools affiliated with the evangelical movement.

Yet the dramatic growth in the 1970s of schools within «conservative» Protestant religious movements led to a narrower definition: a «Christian school» is one that's affiliated with one of the conservative Protestant denominations, such as Southern Baptist and Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, and, in general, with one of the dominant streams within conservative Protestantism — the evangelical, charismatic, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal religious movements.

This organizational difference often marks a deeper fault line within the Christian school movement: While the more fundamentalist schools generally require covenants, the evangelical schools are split on this issue.

He told analysts, in a conference call discussing HC's third quarter results, that the continuing strength and expertise of HarperCollins Christian Publishing «should lead to increased business in Latin America, where the Evangelical movement is particularly influential.»

The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church.