Sentences with phrase «us evangelicalism»

More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the United States.

The Great Uniter: Billy Graham's passing marks the end of an era for evangelicalism.

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?

But as I matured, youth group evangelicalism left me searching for more.

While any fair - minded high - church reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.

What Steve and I, and other converts to Lutheranism (the original «evangelicalism») share, is a time in life where our life became «free» because of proper Christian doctrine and we are imbued with this.

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.

My journey with evangelicalism began around the age of 16.

NathanL: «I suggest you go read it, because all I'm seeing at the moment is classic liberal vitriol aimed against a fictional» shallow» evangelicalism.»

The departure of Union University from the CCCU highlights a problem at the heart of American evangelicalism.

Since at least the 1950s, conservative evangelicalism's overarching sexual ethic has put a substantive emphasis on «modesty» — that is, how [Christian] women dress, specifically in terms of highlighting their sensuality.

Culturally, while American evangelicalism may be numerically healthy, the Union / CCCU debacle indicates a fundamental flaw in the movement which will only become more acute over time.

I suggest you go read it, because all I'm seeing at the moment is classic liberal vitriol aimed against a fictional «shallow» evangelicalism.

Evangelicalism may have the numbers but it needs confessional coherence to maintain its identity in face of the coming challenges.

This points to a wider problem which evangelicalism looks set to face in the very near future.

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.

IMO this is what happens when the sacraments take a back stage to the celebrity minded, opinion based approach to the bible that is endemic in evangelicalism, especially Calvinists.

New data released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Pew Research Center have given rise to a number of analyses of white Christianity in general and white evangelicalism in particular.

Typically, evangelicalism focuses on Biblicism and salvation as two of its major foundations and regards these as cutting across denominational boundaries, pointing to a deeper unity.

Evangelicalism as currently constructed should be dismantled, as there is little of theological substance that holds it together.

One could interpret these numbers as showing a shift in the racial diversity of evangelicalism as a whole, or as showing a decline in white evangelicalism, or both.

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

A related problem for Missouri is its susceptibility to the sentimental evangelicalism and preoccupation with church growth that pervades contemporary conservative Protestantism.

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

He's right that the growth of evangelicalism has likely hit a plateau and hasn't compensated for the decline of the mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic churches.

Don, please note that your opinion reflects only one interpretation of Christianity which appears to be rooted in both the Protestant Reformation and more recently, American - style Evangelicalism.

The ever turbulent waters of evangelicalism continue to be roiled by the declaration «Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium.»

Here is something that is well written about Peter as the Rock... Dave Armstrong — a convert to Catholicism from Evangelicalism wrote the following....

For there to be a scandal of the evangelical mind, there must not be just a mind, but also a readily identifiable thing called «evangelical» and a movement called «evangelicalism» — and the existence of such is increasingly in doubt.

It's the flagship publication of its sort in the Evangelical world and the major magazine in which Evangelicalism's peculiar genius is applied to cultural matters.

As I said before, I think this debate is healthy for Evangelicalism and I deeply appreciate the generous spirit with which you engaged my post.

Even though the contemporary debate within Evangelicalism concerns charismatic gifts, it corresponds to the patristic and medieval understanding of miracles and miracle workers through whom these «graces» flowed.

He casts a rather long shadow in Evangelicalism within the U.S., especially in its Reformed and Baptist wings where this debate has been the most vigorous.

The Wall Street Journal has called him «vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate» while The Gospel Coalition has referred to him «one of the most astute ethicists in contemporary evangelicalism.»

Wells begins by positing two kinds of spirituality present within evangelicalism, distinguished in his view not so much by different doctrinal starting - points as differing priorities assigned to moral reasoning.

Roughly 95 percent of the 1984 text remains, but the other 5 percent reveals an evangelicalism married to modernity, and this is a problem for the translation itself.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

Put differently, it will push Rome into union with a large chunk of Evangelicalism.

The evangelicalism of my youth was heavy on anti-intellectualism.

A healthier body of Christ will find relief in its excretion of evangelicalism while ingesting a historic Trinitarian - based ecclesiology, taking shape in a visible organism that gathers to worship and serves the other, since its God so loved the world.

The more I have tried to comprehend the nature of the Wesleyan tradition and to develop a theological method informed by its distinctive vision of Christianity, the more I have had difficulty understanding my own tradition and myself within the outlines of what most people seem to mean by evangelicalism.

Evangelicalism's inherent flaw itself» its focus upon a book, the Bible, instead of Christ» leads to a weak Christology which results in deficient (or absent) ecclesiology.

I have come to agree with those who would argue that evangelicalism is, to borrow a phrase from the British analytical tradition of philosophy, an «essentially contested concept.»

There are usually multiple crises within evangelicalism.

Understanding these differences is key to reconciling the core meaningof evangelicalism with the Wesleyan tradition.

As David Gibson said in a classic essay, Assumed Evangelicalism: Some Reflections en route to Denying the Gospel, movements begin by proclaiming the gospel, pass through a phase of assuming it but not making it central, and end by rejecting and denying it.

As with all reflection on evangelicalism, however, conclusions are necessarily fragmented.

For now, I'll simply note that evangelicalism will move forward because it is constantly breaking apart and reforming itself in new or renewed coalitions and organizations.

And, again, this form of evangelicalism so differs from the others that the Germans have had to invent a new word, Evangelikal, to describe the growing evangelical self consciousness in Europe after the Lausanne Congress on Evangelization that represented the neo-evangelical coalition.

The Lausanne combination of evangelicalism and social responsibility is probably closer to the spirit of Third World Christianity generally than is mainline American Christianity.