Evangelical theology views the Bible as the central authority for Christian doctrine and ethics.
Not exact matches
The lesson offered is for
evangelical theologians and pastors to be more deeply self - critical about the frames of classic liberalism which still often direct how the task of doing
theology and preaching is
viewed and undertaken.
This person had no idea how much hell I've taken from people in my
evangelical community for writing about my doubts, my questions related to heaven and hell, my
views on biblical interpretation and
theology, and my support for women in ministry and other marginalized people in the Church.
Fuller theologian Jack Rogers, for example, reports in Confessions of a Conservative
Evangelical (Westminster, 1974) the shattering of his inherited
view that his «orthodox
theology» stood in «unbroken continuity with the
theology of Warfield, the Westminster Confession, Calvin, Augustine, and Paul.»
The second
view is articulated in The Catholicity of the Reformation, a series of lectures delivered in 1995 under the auspices of the Center for Catholic and
Evangelical Theology in Northfield, Minnesota.
Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final year of training for ministry, described the process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a more
evangelical theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into college with a fairly open
view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.
If you take the books of moral
theology: in Latin, English, Italian, French there is no evaluation of colonization from a critical
evangelical point of
view.
But after publicly espousing a deeply
evangelical view of
theology on his popular radio show for decades, he converted to Eastern Orthodoxy.
But Brand unashamedly talks about her
view: «I'm proud to be a part of a community of
evangelical men and women who are committed to articulating a contemporary
theology of gender that is faithful to Christ, the apostles, the New Testament Church, and the Reformation.»
Many
evangelicals have accused Jakes of heretical
views of the Trinity and of preaching a prosperity gospel
theology.
«A traditional
evangelical theology does not advocate a progressive
view of human beings, that we're all getting better.
Because of this history, and much of the social justice emphasis (or «social gospel» depending on your
view),
evangelicals have historically shied away from missio dei
theology.