Sentences with phrase «evangelicalism does»

Evangelicalism doesn't get our loyalty: that fidelity is for our Jesus.

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So, is the Army not the responsibility of the federal government, and wouldn't their support for a faith specific event such as this (it doesn't even cater to all Christian groups, only the evangelicals) be seen as an endorsement of evangelicalism by the federal government?

Justin, Sam and Claire also discuss the front cover feature on Christians fighting the knife crime epidemic in London, whether evangelicalism can survive the era of Trump and what to do when God doesn't heal.

WCC leaders and staff do seem eager to capture the energy of Pentecostalism, the assurance and growth of evangelicalism, the authority of Catholicism, and the satisfying and mysterious depths of Orthodoxy for themselves.

But what does seem clear to me is that confessional Protestants need to think long and hard about their connections to evangelicalism, broadly conceived.

But a win for evangelicalism as a movement does not translate into a win for every constituency in the movement.

But sometimes you get a long way into what you think is a clear discussion of evangelicalism, and suddenly realize that the person doing the talking is getting increasingly shrill about how the hallway needs to have more room for seats in it, and wants to know where we're going to put the worship band or the choir, and where the weddings take place.

More than ever, evangelical scholars should not abandon the identity as hopelessly marred by Trumpism, but, in the words of an evangelical theologian who did this well, revision evangelicalism and renew the center.

Their hiring reversal hurt the GLBTQ community deeply as well as their allies, let alone the 10,000 vulnerable kids who lost sponsorships, so a lot of people were talking about how they were done, done, done with evangelicalism.

These sorts of tactics get a lot of press, but behind them is a deeper problem — a problem that gets close to the heart of evangelicalism itself and hampers any true dialogue... It has to do with what evangelicals expect from the Bible.»

Maybe evangelicalism as we understand it doesn't need our defense anymore: maybe we can open our fist, lay down our weapons for the movement or the ideology or the powerful, and simply walk away.

Balmer's attempt at originality has to do with the influence of Continental (Reformed, Lutheran, Dutch, German, etc.) «Pietism» on the evangelicalism that usually gets traced mainly to Puritanism.

He doesn't want to push the «wisdom» within evangelicalism out of the way.

Mainline churches looking to retain and attract young people, particularly «homeless» evangelicals like myself, would do well to look to Missiongathering as a model, for, at least from my perspective, they have managed to combine all that is great about the mainline with all that is great about evangelicalism into one faith community.

And what has happened, I think, to many evangelicals is they've lifted up Donald Trump above Jesus... don't think that Donald Trump has changed evangelicalism, but I do think he's revealed it.

... Santorum is measuring all Catholics again't every other religion... He deosn't like Omama's Rev Wright and the Baptist religion - He doesn't like the following; Lutherism, Anglicans, Fundamentatlism Christiamity, Pietism, Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Holiness movement, Greek Eastern Orthodox, Protestantism, Arryrism Church, and many move.

Because a phrase like «totalitarian evangelicalism» has a frightening ring to it, I will distinguish it from those «goods» and «partial goods» — which have some justification in the facts of life and human nature — by explaining what I do not mean by it.

I don't see this development as a sign that evangelicalism as a whole is on the decline (we seem to be holding strong with a decades - long 20 - to - 25 percent of the population), but I do believe it provides us with the opportunity to revise the way we think about political engagement and ready ourselves for a future of similar electoral choices.

I can't think of any other nonevangelical commentator on American religion who knows as much about evangelicalism as Marty does.

Such a judgment carries with it its own problems concerning definition, and it will be unacceptable on first reading to many within evangelicalism, for their traditions do not easily stretch to include such a notion as being that of «justice.»

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.»

It was a classic example of evangelicalism's continued obsession with homosexuality, an obsession I believe has done irreparable damage to the relationship between the Church and the gay community.

So, Carl Henry stood up in the 50s and 60s and said something had to be done, and out of his famous book «Uneasy Conscience» arose a new movement: «evangelicalism.»

Evangelicalism isn't a church but a movement, so why does it need a doctrine of the church?

I mention that as your list of Qs really struck at the core of why I find all this so toxic — it's repackaged US evangelicalism that's selling people a new way to «be» or «do» church assuming one can pay in order to play — and the price ain't cheap.

«The fact that some pastors don't see the pope as their «brother in Christ» seems strange to many outside Protestantism and evangelicalism, I imagine,» Stetzer said.

So here's the question: Do you think that «evangelicalism» is beginning to take on the same negative connotation as «fundamentalism»?

Here we raise the question of the precise relationship of evangelicalism and fundamentalism as historical phenomena, I do not mean here to give any credence to what I predict will be the common evangelical response to Barr — that he fails to distinguish appropriately a modern enlightened evangelicalism from a more benighted fundamentalism.

Her favorite brother, Henry, was a clergyman of evangelical stripe, and several letters show that Jane herself knew something of evangelicalism (she did not like it much, though her attitudes apparently shifted during her lifetime).

If the right to critique Darwinism is at stake, how does that advance a biblical theology of a good creation and the sacredness of all life — a more positive approach than a reactionary Evangelicalism evolved from a world - denying fundamentalism?

That's not to say that evangelicalism is doing well — it peaked a couple of decades ago in the United States — but one of the big shifts inside Christianity is toward Evangelicalism,evangelicalism is doing well — it peaked a couple of decades ago in the United States — but one of the big shifts inside Christianity is toward Evangelicalism,Evangelicalism, oddly enough.

Best critique: Carson Clark with «A Cordial Response to Rachel Held Evans» Post «The Future of Evangelicalism» While I don't agree with every part of Carson's analysis, I really learned a lot from this insightful critique and would love your thoughts on it.

As Paul Markhan wrote in an excellent essay about the phenomenon, young people who identify with this movement have grown weary of evangelicalism's allegiance to Republican politics, are interested in pursuing social reform and social justice, believe that the gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communities.

Simply put, I don't want to live in an evangelicalism where we can not tell men to «act like men» using a verse that says, well, «Act like men.»

But use integrity when engaging evangelicalism, and don't take advantage of such a horrific situation to do so.

We don't like labels to begin with, and evangelicalism already carries a lot of political and theological baggage.

As you know, we tried to start a church that was a blend of evangelicalism and progressivism here in Dayton and it didn't exactly pan out.

9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. Ministry in Contemporary Culture Series «Does Evangelicalism Have a Future?»

Kevin Offner's typology of Evangelicalism referred to in The Public Square (November 1993) did indeed bring momentary cries of protest from this disenfranchised Evangelical.

Frankly, this blog strikes me as one of those deals where the former pastor figures out that all the other religious people are wrong, and he doesn't want to be one of those «fundie douchebags» (to quote one of your fans), and so he starts spewing cynical knee - jerk vitriol against anything that smacks of conservativism or evangelicalism or whatever.

It took me a long time to realize that not only did these assumptions misrepresented the teachings of the Catholic Church, but they contributed to that common narrative that plagues much of evangelicalism — that people are damned for having the «wrong» doctrine (and by «wrong,» I mean «not evangelical.»)

Best List: CNN Religion Blog with «15 Faith - Based Predictions for 2012» [I thought it was interesting how many of these had to do with the «generational divide» within evangelicalism.]

There does not seem to exist a vocabulary within evangelicalism with which to talk about men and women who are sexually active, but not promiscuous.

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:

Most Unhelpful: Anthony Bradley with «Evangelicalism's Bitter 20 - Somethings» Dear Mr. Bradley, calling us lazy and spoiled because we don't toe the party line is not the best way to win us back.

Balmer's ambivalence about evangelicalism and his deep sympathy for those in its orbit who did not fully fit into it was evident in the next room, about a holiness camp meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Moody's shift does line up with northern evangelicalism, which tends to be much more moderationist than southern evangelicalism.

I like that he urges the media to do more work in representing the diversity within evangelicalism, rather than resorting to stereotypes.

As much as I wish I didn't care, I still dream of an evangelicalism where both my friend Jen Hatmaker (who wrote this) and my friend Ben Moberg (who wrote this) are welcome at the same table.

The missional approach is different than modern evangelicalism, particularly in this region, because «the work of salvation, in its full sense, is 1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; 2) about the present, not simply the future; and 3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.»