Sentences with phrase «evangelical view of the church»

Here is a comment that reflects very well the historic Evangelical view of the Church Fathers.

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Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

Should we throw Augustine out because he held a different view of Creation then some in the contemporary evangelical church?

The Catholic destabilization following the Council was advanced by liberal and progressive forces in the Church, but it had the unexpected consequence of making Catholicism, in the view of evangelicals, less the monolithic threat that they feared.

The first line says it all: «Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church.»

Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath: Those in the evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath: Those in the evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in the church.

The early evangelicals, like Katharine Bushnell, understood that for too long the church associated women with Eve's sin and men with Christ's victories over sin — a view that wreaks havoc on the Christian view of sanctification.

Evangelical leaders constantly warn that young people are deserting churches; pastors struggle to address changing views on homosexuality; and others wonder how evangelicals can remain relevant when a growing number of Americans refuse to identify with any religion.

Google «Tea Party Jesus» and click «images» for a quick view of this on target parody of the «Jesus» far too often presented, even in evangelical churches, to tell the truth.

The emerging Church movement he represented was increasingly viewed with suspicion by elder statesmen of the established evangelical churches.

Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world, where a «high» view of the Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening services on a Sunday.

When liberal Christians or socially conscious evangelicals challenge the failure of this view's adherents to articulate social and cultural concerns, the reply is that such concerns are not part of the church's proclamation, but that individual evangelicals have always been motivated to reform and renew society, almost automatically.

The support of graduate theological study for Methodists in first - rate universities, with a view to the enlargement of the talent pool of well - trained «evangelicals» for service in both academy and church.

Nor is the absence of white evangelicals and fundamentalists due to the political views of the members of these churches on the issues that organizing addresses.

It is also what drives the evangelicals out, because of the intellectual sterility such a view takes on in most main line churches.

I hope that the Synod boldly lifts up the biblical and Christian view of marriage and the family as the Church's evangelical answer to the contemporary crisis of marriage and the family.

Moreover, even an evangelical consensus should not be viewed as an end in itself, but rather as a tool for the church to use in the strengthening of its faith and life.

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.»

A new survey reports that «most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by... the councils of the early church.»

Evangelical faith is largely personal; evangelicals view themselves not as instruments of a church but as individuals freely expressing their faith.

His broad brush often covers the whole evangelical movement, but here and there he suggests that «in the ecumenical community of the church the evangelical tradition is an honored member» and that «its views of conversion, of personal salvation and so on constitute a source of riches.»

In return, the evangelical community, whose focus of commitment is less scattered and whose financial contributions are more generous than members of mainline churches, 7 has faithfully supported such perceived evangelistic efforts with its time (viewing) and money.

On the other hand, evangelicals who promote a warped view of American history in an effort to undo the court rulings on church - state affairs ignore a fundamental point made by Roger Williams more than 300 years ago: «No civil state or country can be truly called Christian, although the Christians be in it.»

Evangelicals who promote a warped view of American history in an effort to undo the court rulings on church - state affairs ignore the fundamental point that no country can be called Christian, even though Christians are in it.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

The national survey used an index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor, including contributing to or attending church, participation in community activities, income, age or sex.

The national survey used the «literalist / charismatic» index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor — including attending church, contributing to a church, participating in community activities, income, age, or sex.

Third, in view of scattered signs among some evangelicals of an awakening concern about national and world problems, can all of us in churches — liberal as well as conservative, laity as well as clergy — have the grace to seize every opportunity for dialogue, to the end that we may begin to realize that behind our pluralism lies a God - inspired hunger for a better, more just world?

Bruce Marshall held a similar vision of evangelical and catholic Lutheranism that he caught while studying with Lindbeck at Yale, a vision in which the Reformation is viewed as an attempt to restore genuine catholicity to the church.

However, it was Chalke himself who provided some of the headlines in the last ten years, as his views on penal atonement and homosexuality led to calls from some church leaders to have him removed from the Evangelical Alliance.

The Catholic Church, evangelical Christians, and concerned civic action groups who view embryo research as immoral are not likely to turn to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the American Society for Human Genetics, the Hinxton Group, the Nuffield Council on Bioetics, or other scientific and medical organizations for their primary counsel.