Sentences with phrase «if evangelicalism»

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Either way, evangelicalism as a whole seems relatively stable, according to the PRRI, even if its demographics are shifting.

Yet Falwell's support is hardly isolated, and I suspect if Trump is the nominee, he will continue to find even more of it from the Religious Right (which I designate as a subset of a broader and more diverse evangelicalism).

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.

If this faction mutes the premillennial debate, it has not yielded so readily on another movement that like evangelicalism and fundamentalism could easily be called «the religious phenomenon of the twentieth century» — Pentecostalism.

What if the dominant tribe within evangelicalism became subdominant in order to push the process of reconciliation forward?

If robust evangelicalism guaranteed continuing fidelity, the younger Schaeffer would not be writing odd books about his mother's sex life and describing his own spiritual life as an atheist who believes in God.

If such deviation goes on in the green tree of Evangelicalism, one expects to find devotion to magic and the supernatural even more focused in the larger culture.

This was very important in Gaebelein's case: he might not have been accepted as a leader within fundamentalist evangelicalism, nor become a famous Bible and prophecy conference speaker, if he had not changed his view.

While such historical ignorance is inexcusable (if not uncommon among Americans), it has had the salutatory effect of keeping evangelicalism free, by and large, from the taint of anti-Semitism.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

Rather than search among theologians such as these, we must look to the mediating categories within evangelicalism - to the irenic inerrantists and to those holding to complete infallibility — if helpful insight is to be gained.

Perhaps evangelicalism's most common argument concerning Biblical authority runs as follows: If one will grant the general reliability of the New Testament documents as verified historically, then, as the Holy Spirit uses this witness to create faith in Christ as Lord and Savior, the Christian comes to accept Jesus Christ as authoritative.

If historic Christianity is again to compete as a vital world ideology, evangelicalism must project a solution for the most pressing world problems.

That flow has slowed if not stopped, as evangelicalism has come to provide its own status system for risers in the ranks.

I'm wondering if there are more Christians like me out there, who are tired of being associated with evangelicalism, and who are looking for a new term to describe their religious affiliation.

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?

If I announced the death of evangelicalism and Christian faith, I'd sell a lot more books, I assure you.

In the first installment of RATT (Rachel And Tripp Talking)-- or, if you prefer, TART (Tripp And Rachel Talking)-- my friend Tripp Fuller and I discuss the three «s» s and the future of evangelicalism.

My personal platform and book sales would take off if I wrote a book that evangelicalism is dying.

Many pietistically conservative folks stayed with the RCA — if their piety allowed for public schools and lodge membership, as well as for embracing the «American» character of evangelicalism, which the psalm - singers in Grand Rapids found unattractive.

If the traits he picks out from American evangelicalism make it a manifestation of fascism, then the entire classical tradition of Christianity is fascist, too.

Together they will discuss whether there is a future for evangelicalism and, if so, what the future might entail.

Even Billy Graham has been quoted as saying, «Evangelicalism is a great mosaic God is building, but if you asked me to, I'd have a hard time giving you a definition of what it is today.

But if anyone qualifies as pastor to the megachurch pastors, it is Rick Warren, whose influence upon global evangelicalism is hard to measure.

I try and actually get us back on topic (evangelicalism — or, if you prefer, giant fish:)-RRB-, fishon's position is something else churches are trying to «sell» us.

Though even if that's true, the satire of hip Evangelicalism is still funny.

But evangelicalism asks us to believe that God (from whom we get the concept of being courteous, gentle and forgiving) can not get past those offences and will ultimately get payback by consigning the person to final damnation for eternity (regardless if hell is full of flames or just empty loneliness).

(If you're not familiar with them, they have a fascinating history from theological error to evangelicalism.)

If you want to see how American evangelicalism has lost its way, you need look no farther than Billy Graham and his son Franklin.

If, in Paul Tillich's terms, Protestant principle has swallowed up Catholic substance in much of contemporary evangelicalism, this is because evangelicals have paid too little attention to the sum total of the Christian heritage handed down from previous ages.