Sentences with phrase «between evangelicalism»

Expect controversy over his minimizing of ties between Evangelicalism and the American Revolution and similar connections being made by many in our time.

It really inspires me to think that maybe my generation will be the one to sever the marriage between evangelicalism and politics, end the culture wars, and redirect our efforts toward feeding the hungry, helping the homeless, advocating for the helpless, pursuing racial reconciliation, supporting single moms, rejecting the seductive pull of power and violence, and earning a repuation as peacemakers.

Not exact matches

Evangelicalism possesses no ecclesiology and that absence is the real issue, not the conflicts between its subdivisions.

Gerald McDermott's description of evangelicalism as divided between «Traditionists» and «Meliorists» would be improved by recognition of the huge divide between so - called «Biblicist» and «paleo - orthodox» versions of «Traditionism.»

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodationEvangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodationevangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

Wilkinson's published dissertation, Between God and Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change (Oxford University Press), outlines the history of the climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.»

But it highlights a point I have made before: that the relationship between American Evangelicalism, especially its leadership, and the Reformation, which is being commemorated this year, is a complicated one.

With its penchant to classify everything, contemporary Evangelicalism has labeled this debate as being between cessationists and....

So, while it may be problematic to make too much of the distinction between Scripture and Christ, I think that evangelicalism will benefit from a reminder that our faith centers around the living person of Jesus Christ — the World Made Flesh — not on the sacred texts that point to him.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

In comparing Rauschenbusch to Adams, the differences between a religious liberalism (Adams left the Baptists to become a Unitarian Universalist) and a progressive evangelicalism become clear; indeed, we can see how conservative Rauschenbusch really was.

Some of the differences become theologically technical, with distinctions drawn not only between mainline and conservative churches, but also between different varieties of evangelicalism, fundamentalism, and pentecostalism.

It overlooks the fact that the original or classical evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation of concerns which in the modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation of manners, and social reform.

Second, we should become more historically and theologically sensitive to the differences between parts of global evangelicalism.

With such major centers of the new evangelicalism as Fuller Seminary now showing a good deal more affinity to neo-orthodoxy than to fundamentalism (see Gerald T. Sheppard, «Biblical Hermeneutics: The Academic Language of Evangelical Identity,» Union Seminary Quarterly Review 32 [Winter 1977, pp. 81 - 94]-RRB-, surely we must be cautious both about assuming flatly a «decline» of classic liberalism and about implying a one - to - one relation between the liberal ideologies, whatever their current condition, and the oldline denominational structures.

But there is an important difference between these two viewpoints in evangelicalism which now must be explored.

The current impasse in evangelicalism over social ethics provides us a model for exploring how a dialogue between conflicting theological traditions can aid theological formation as evangelicals seek to apply concretely their theoretical commitment to Biblical authority.

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.

Ultimately, however, the difference between the new evangelicalism and the older liberal churches goes beyond differences in content, to differences in perception rooted in their parent technologies.

ES: So I get you navigate the distinction between Catholicism and Evangelicalism and that you are firmly rooted in the Catholic Church but you have a foot — a friendly foot — in Evangelicalism.

... the fear often is expressed that the «rather amorphous middle position termed «evangelicalism, living between a left wing capitulation to ethnology - sociology and a right wing reaction to the same disciplines, «seems more ready to expend their time and energy in defense of older formulations of Christian truths than to grapple with the matter of reformulating these truths in terms of new conceptual frameworks.»

My own experience, like many of those who grew up in evangelicalism, was marked by conversions and reconversions and re-reconversions, between which I wandered aimlessly until finding my way into sin and then out again through walking down for the altar call.

Once I had to spell out, literally, the difference between «evangelicalism» and «evangelism.»

There appears to be an inherent incompatibility between Christian evangelicalism and the idea of a university, for only an «open» style of Christian commitment can affirm a university's commitment to free inquiry.

The possibility I want to propose is that there is an inherent incompatibility between Christian evangelicalism and the idea of a university; that evangelical commitments may, indeed, foreclose the very terms which have traditionally defined a university; and that only what might be called an «open» style of Christian commitment can assume university form.

Throughout the history of evangelicalism, there has been a paradoxical tension between the Church as a sectarian enclave on the one hand, and the Church as the body and bride of the undivided Christ on the other» just as there has been a tension between being an alienated outsider and a quintessential American, and a tension between global mission and national revival on the one hand and a turned - in - on - itself piety and exclusivism on the other.