Sentences with phrase «by evangelical denominations»
Though produced by evangelical denominations, the programs reflected characteristics similar to other sustaining - time programming: they were low - key in their approach, they were moderate in their doctrine, and they often employed a dramatic format.
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Because the assemblies and committees of the World Council are peopled by denominational power elites, there is a minimum of the kind of influence from grass - roots evangelicals which tends to moderate the positions and actions of the denominations themselves.
The efforts of the denomination to prevent this, led and goaded by its evangelicals, are creating tensions that may lead to schism.
It is fascinating that the movement would arise in the American branch of the Hebrew Christian Alliance (HCAA), an organization that has consistently assuaged the fears of fundamentalist Christians by emphasizing that it is not a separate denomination but only an evangelistic arm of the evangelical church.
Disrupted by factions for some years, it split in 1974; a new denomination, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, was formed in 1976.
The task is being carried out by four working groups, representing the Protestant mainline denominations, evangelicals, Roman Catholics and the university - related divinity schools.
Elmhurst was a small, then - unaccredited school run by his denomination, the Evangelical Synod of North America, now part of the United Church of Christ.
Rather than stay at Yale and work toward his doctorate, Niebuhr accepted the appointment by his denomination as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, Michigan, in 1915.
And according to a recent report by a special task force of pastors, the baptism drought in America's largest evangelical denomination — which counts 15.7 million members and 5.8 million Sunday worshipers — is worst among millennials.
(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)
Conducted by the Minneapolis - based Search Institute and funded by the Lilly Endowment, the study surveyed 11,122 people in 561 congregations in six denominations: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); Southern Baptist Convention; United Church of Christ; and United Methodist Church.
His evangelical ties: Floyd was nominated for the SBC presidency by Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and one of the most prominent voices in the denomination.
On the other hand, self - identified evangelicals are linked among themselves by a set of elective affinities, while belonging to a potpourri of Protestant denominations that display only a limited and variable concern about their own existence in institutional separation from one another, let alone from the Roman Catholic Church.
About 3,000 chaplains currently serve in the military, endorsed by a multitude of faiths, including Christian, evangelical Protestant, Jewish and Muslim denominations.
The groups that compose conservative Christendom are marked by distinctive theological stances and sociological dynamics as significant as those that distinguish other church traditions or those that separate evangelical groups from mainline denominations.
The leaders of America's top evangelical aid groups and denominations urged Congress today to reject proposed cuts to foreign aid in a letter signed by more than 100 prominent Christians, including 2 of the 6 clergy who prayed at President Donald Trump's inauguration.
In time new denominations influenced by Azusa Street blended the distinctive Apostolic Faith focus on the experience of the Holy Spirit with traditional evangelical tenets.
National Association of Evangelicals President Leif Anderson and Nancy Wilson, head of the and Metropolitan Community Church - the nation's largest denomination expressly serving LGBT Americans - are among the appointees to the panel, which was launched by President Barack Obama in 2009.
«76 The evangelicals generally would agree with Thomas Smyth to «include under the term presbyterian, all denominations which are governed by ministers who are recognized as of one order, and who, as well as their other officers, are chosen, are removable, and are supported by the people.»
But evangelicals thought of their «churches» as «denominations» where «the word «denomination» implies that the group referred to is but one member of a larger group, called or denominated by a particular name.
Christian fiction might be novels published by members of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, but that excludes self - published authors and non-evangelical publishers targeting a specific denomination, such as Roman Catholic.
A few private or parochial schools run by Protestant and Evangelical denominations also exist.
The group, which represents 45,000 churches and more than 60 evangelical denominations, took no action on a letter sent by 25 conservative Christian leaders demanding that the organization restrain its Washington policy director, the Rev. Richard Cizik, from putting forward his views on global warming.