A few months ago, I worked with LifeWay Research and the National Association of Evangelicals to help create a tool that looked
at evangelical beliefs.
Not exact matches
But too often they direct their attack not
at this great weakness of the church but
at those who do have fervent
beliefs leading to commitment and action, when these
beliefs differ from the one's held by
evangelicals.
Just under half (44 percent) of
evangelicals told LifeWay Research recently that student groups
at public schools should not be allowed to require their leaders to hold specific
beliefs.
However, it appears, increasingly, that
Evangelical (and Catholic and Mormon)
beliefs are the new «racism» to be excluded from the free exchange of ideas
at institutions of higher learning.
I guess
evangelicals also aim to take control of the gubment and force us all to convert
at gun - point (or as many also believe,
at welfare - check revocation point)-- their unabashed fervor to take over the military academies and promote their
belief system there is shockingly bold.
Another study sampled students
at nine
evangelical colleges in an attempt to determine how effective these institutions were in providing plausibility structures for
evangelical beliefs.
Can not it
at least be said that the soteriological
beliefs of process thinkers in this category are much closer to the
beliefs held by
evangelicals than many realize?
As part of the survey, researchers looked
at how people with
evangelical beliefs and churchgoers see the issues
at play in the 2016 election.
So, as we look
at evangelicals by
belief, not just «white
evangelicals» (who are overwhelmingly for Donald Trump), we find a very different story.
As Jonathan Dudley observes in a recent
Belief Blog post, U.S. Catholic leaders began to take on abortion right after Roe v. Wade legalized it in 1973, but American
evangelical leaders continued to teach that life begins
at birth until the late 1970s and early 1980s.
In recent years,
evangelicals have pushed for greater «conscience protections» for Christians, hoping to keep believers from being forced to go against their
beliefs on marriage and sexuality
at their workplaces.
«We believe we represent a convergence of
evangelical belief that care for [refugees] is a central part of our Christian faith,» said Jenny Yang, vice president of advocacy and policy
at World Relief.
At the same time, Carter also respects the way that this Calvinism, along with other supposedly reactionary
beliefs (Catholic,
evangelical Protestant, and Jewish), fostered the deep sense of personal moral responsibility without which republicanism would never have been possible.
In
at least some
evangelical churches lots of people are talking about Mormon
beliefs, and aren't comfortable about them.
And on campus many Christians have found that we really need Muslims to help us withstand the assaults of pagans in the department of religion and
at the local shopping mall, I've watched conservative
evangelical, Bible - thumping Christian students link up with conservative, Qur» an - thumping Muslim students — they are brought together by the realization that in many subtle and disturbing ways the modern university is aligned against
belief in and fidelity to any God.
The
evangelical tradition holds
at its best the
belief that faithful Christian witness involves caring deeply about one's neighbor» and hence about truth, justice, and love extending beyond the bounds of the meeting house.
What matters here is that the
evangelical leadership
at Wheaton takes their statement of faith seriously and, well, they are unsure that Dr. Hawkins» statements align with their
beliefs.
Greenberg's
belief in flatness was
at the heart of an
evangelical praise for American abstract painting in the middle of the 20th century.
For example, a core tenant of
Evangelical Christianity is a
belief in Jesus Christ as a person redeemer — the failure to believe in this is fundamentally contrary to
Evangelical Christianity — yet students are not required to sign on to this course of conduct or to follow any of the outward behaviours that mark Christian worship to be a student
at TWU.