This message of the new birth through Christ has been the hallmark of
the evangelical movement since at least the time of Whitefield.
In light of the last few weeks, the American conservative
evangelical movement as a whole has been exposed as theologically thin in its doctrine and historically eccentric in its priorities.
F. F. Bruce a hero of
the evangelical movement, a non biased author if ever there was one (sarcasm).
Christianity has suffered from
the Evangelical movement.
At 51, I remember the hippie Jesus freaks of the 70s when
the Evangelical movement took off, which has a whole lot more in common with millenials» views than the current crop of Evangelical Pharisees.
Do you think that, in criticizing certain expressions of the modern
evangelical movement for being political / anti-intellectual, some of us have simply become (as Mike said in a comment at the end of my post) «total snobs»?
More broadly we may ask how Wesley would view the contemporary
evangelical movement as a whole.
Finally, it is very very
evangelical movement, so it requires a large school of apologetics many of which, like any religion in with new converts are highly zealous and incredibly hostile towards anything outside of the boarders of their particular brand of faith.
I actually do a presentation when I seek to explain the modern
evangelical movement, particularly to movement leaders here in the United States or to missionaries who have been out of the country for a long time.
Then there is J. I. Packer — less widely known than either Stott or Graham and yet one of
the Evangelical movement's most venerated and beloved leaders.
Those in the mainstream media who ignore these trends, or who simply place conservatives like Huckabee and Santorum in the traditional Religious Right frame, are missing a big story about the Republican Party,
the evangelical movement in America, and my generation's response to both.
And with this point, we are back once again to Packer's place in
the Evangelical movement as a whole: How did such a committed Anglican, a Puritan in spirituality, and a Calvinist in theology, come to inspire the veneration of a kind of Evangelical popedom?
I wanted Governor Perry to explain his relationship with David Barton, the founder of the WallBuilders
evangelical movement, who preaches that America should have a government «firmly rooted in biblical principles» and that the Bible offers explicit guidance on public policy — for example, tax policy.
It is clear that there is an immense buildup of political muscle in today's
evangelical movement.
Evangelicals for Social Action, a group that has struggled for traction and identity since it framed the Thanksgiving Declaration of 1973, has regathered its strength around a new board of directors representing many sectors of
the evangelical movement.
Is there a need for new theological and spiritual awakening among the multiplied tribes of
the evangelical movement?
The friendship and cooperation between the Arminian John Wesley and the Calvinist George Whitefield during the First Great Awakening had shown that the two groups could work together in evangelism and make common cause for
the evangelical movement.
What is commonly called the «modern missionary movement» among the Protestants is the product of pietistic and
evangelical movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Creationism has not been the dominant belief in American Christianity for many years until the rise of
the Evangelical movement.
The horrors of the Holocaust — which were occurring during the same years the modern
evangelical movement was being born — also seared our conscience and deepened our sympathy for «God's chosen people.»
I love US Media, attacking the corrupted Catholic church for the gain of the other corrupted religion christian
evangelical movement,
Like the rest of
the evangelical movement the last 30 + years, this is all fake Christianity.
Given the mounting tensions and internal disunity in the orthodox camp,
the evangelical movement has become for Henry «a lion on the loose that no one today seriously fears.
The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, which struck down the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools, turned
the evangelical movement into a national laughingstock and provoked an evangelical retreat from politics.
Other church groups, both within
the evangelical movement and outside it (the African indigenous churches come to mind), are simply apolitical.
Exactly,
the evangelical movement in this country is on the rise, mostly younger, and a VERY powerful lobby.
God's terminal illness — which Harrington believes is not being stayed by the so - called
evangelical movement or other manifestations of a renewed religiosity — has given rise to other liturgies which are not as well developed as that of what Hegel called revealed religion.
Jerry Farwell was instrumental in
the evangelical movement.
In the townships, black evangelicals are under enormous pressure to dissociate themselves from the independent
evangelical movement.
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.»
I still love the beauty of ritual, especially because I have been deprived of such beauty, being part of
the evangelical movement...
Not everyone on the board endorsed Trump — but they agreed to consult with him as he reached out to
an evangelical movement solidly split between the already on - board, the hesitant, and the decidedly #NeverTrump.
It's all an outcome of
the evangelical movement that has created a kind of sub-culture, and view main - line Protestants and Catholics as non-Christian.
According to the article's subtitle, Steubenville was «a base for the teen
evangelical movement, where I saw fundamentalist Christianity's power, and its danger.»
If anything, Trump's candidacy is revealing the inner secularization of
the evangelical movement, where evangelical no longer means something many would recognize as properly Christian, Westminster Seminary — California professor Michael Horton wrote for CT..
Maybe those are the remnant you are speaking of, which makes the Beast the rising populist
evangelical movement, I suppose.
The movement toward the independence of the church may lead to the development of a new missionary or
evangelical movement, to the rise of an effective international Christianity, to the union of the divided parts of the church of Christ, and to the realization in civilization of the unity and peace of the saved children of one God.
The evangelical movement's strength has always been its centripetal force — the power of its central theological and missional premises to unite those from drastically different Christian traditions.
The modern missionary movement of the 18th and 19th centuries flowed in a direct powerful way out of
this evangelical movement.
A large part of the problem here, as I pointed out in a recent CTS booklet entitled Protestantism from a Catholic Perspective, is that those members of the intelligentsia who dominate in the media despise
the evangelical movements.
While our theological and philosophical roots are in
the evangelical movement, we have not used the term with those outside the church since 2004.
Not everyone on the board endorses Trump — but they've agreed to consult with him as he continues to reach out to
an evangelical movement solidly split between the already on - board, the hesitant, and the decidedly #NeverTrump.
In The American Evangelical Story, Douglas A. Sweeney writes, «Most black Christians, though evangelical by many definitions, resist identifying closely with
the evangelical movement.
«In a sense,» Billy Graham said in an address launching Christianity Today 50 years ago, «we are almost leaderless» in
the evangelical movement.
He has arguably been the most influential leader in the relatively leaderless
evangelical movement, CT noted in 2005.
But the plain fact is that the growth in Protestantism since World War II has been mainly among these myriad
evangelical movements, while the so - called «mainline» denominations are in free fall.
I was part of
the evangelical movement for over 12 years, and after hearing the continuous bombardment of hate preached against anyone not submitted to their leaders, stepped away to become a believer in Christ, who came to save not condemn.
First, the Religious Right has always been a sub-culture of leaders and organizations, committed to a particular political agenda, within
the evangelical movement.
And not just in the fundamentalist parts of
the evangelical movement.
I do where much of Christianity has gone in
the Evangelical movement.