Sentences with phrase «conservative evangelical liberals»

Not exact matches

This is an interesting conservative variation on a theme often voiced by liberal observers of evangelical politics.

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There remain both «federal conservatives» and «federal liberals» (as the English Evangelical Graham Kings has put it), both groups of which, for all their doctrinal differences, share the belief that Anglicanism as a communion does not matter all that much.

To map that landscape, Roof and McKinney divide Americans into eight religious families: liberal Protestants (Presbyterians, Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ), roughly 9 per cent of the population; moderate Protestants (United Methodists, Lutherans, Disciples, American Baptists, Reformed), 24 per cent; conservative Protestants (including Southern Baptists, Churches of Christ, Nazarenes, Pentecostal and holiness groups, and evangelicals and fundamentalists), 16 per cent; black Protestants, 16 per cent; Catholics.

Too many Catholics, mostly liberals but also some conservatives, have failed to grasp this evangelical core, Weigel argues, and so have remained fixated on internal church reform.

«So at this point, traditional Mormons, evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics have more in common with one another politically than they do with the more liberal elements within their respective churches.»

Obama invited the conservative evangelical megapastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his 2009 inauguration, ruffling liberal feathers.

Rather, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and self - control - qualities that can be found in all types of communities be they conservative or liberal, evangelical or Mainline Protestant, big or small.

Where Wright is a liberal mainline Protestant, emphasizing liberation and social action, Obama's new circle of pastors includes theologically conservative evangelicals like Hunter and Jakes, who stress God's grace and personal transformation.

Today the word «evangelical» is typically paired with «conservative,» and it is characteristic of those who call themselves «conservative evangelicals» to be sharply critical of liberals.

Just as Wesley does not fit today's model of the conservative evangelical, so also his liberalism was quite different from that of many contemporary liberals.

But you'll often hear Friends apply the terms «liberal Quaker,» «conservative Quaker,» and «pastoral / evangelical Quaker» to themselves or others, so let me take a shot at explaining those terms.

Right after the Aurora Co shooting a local Evangelical conservative talk show host in southeast Michigan went into a tirade on how liberals wanted to take away our gun rights.

While it is difficult to draw exact parallels, this division between liberals and evangelicals affected Catholics and Jews as well, leading to a time when it was less important that you were Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish, and more important that you were conservative or liberal in your faith.

Consequently, evangelicals suspected the Revised Standard Version as a liberal Bible, and eventually countered with the New International Version, a translation produced by conservative scholars.

Conservative churches turn out to be indirectly ensuring the survival of liberal churches this way a proportion of their ordinands become more liberal and go on to pastor liberal congregations, or turn evangelical churches into liberal ones.

That Was the Church That Was (I think I can reveal without causing any grave difficulties to anyone) is dominated by factional differences between evangelical conservatives and liberal Catholics, by office politics, by money troubles, and by struggles over homosexuality and over the ordination of women.

According to the subtitle of A Generous Orthodoxy, he himself is a «missional + evangelical + post / protestant + liberal / conservative + mystical / poetic + biblical + charismatic / contemplative + fundamentalist / calvinist + anabaptist / anglican + methodist + catholic + green + incarnational + depressed - yet - hopeful + emergent + unfinished CHRISTIAN.»

The books that sell in quantity to lay people are on a spectrum of which conservative evangelicals are the liberal end.

What we have in evangelical social ethics is a rough analogue of the ideological differences between Ronald Reagan (conservative), Richard Nixon (moderate), Pat Brown (liberal / reformist), and Jerry Brown (radical).

As I have pointed out, conservative Evangelicals (but not liberals) are those who can be accused of «picking and choosing» in an irrational way.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post / protestant, liberal / conservative, mystical / poetic, biblical, charismatic / contemplative,... anabaptist / anglican, metho (emergentYS) by Brian McLaren — Brian McLaren has, obviously, been influential in my life through his work and writings.

Most Helpful: Kathy Escobar with «8 ways those from more liberal - progressive and conservative - evangelical persuasions can better love each other»

Romney has struggled to win over many social conservatives who felt that his past positions on social issues were too liberal and many evangelicals who raised theological concerns over Romney's membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

From largest to smallest, these groups are the somewhat conservative, moderates and liberals, conservative evangelicals, and economically very conservative secular voters.

The battle of the bumper stickers between conservatives and liberals in the late «60s and early «70s predictably was fought from such Sunday school formations; evangelicals, fundamentalists and charismatics fired volleys of «Christ is the Answer!

Liberal theologians, evangelical revivalists, and Princeton conservatives were all fundamentally dualistic in their thinking about human nature.

A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post / protestant, liberal / conservative, mystical / poetic, biblical, charismatic / contemplative, fundamentalist / calvinist, anabaptist / anglican, methodist, catholic, green, incarnational, depressed - yet - hopeful, emergent, unfinished Christian.

Both were thoughtful, relatively charitable articles, but I was disheartened to see my Facebook and Twitter feeds light up with gleeful jeers from conservative evangelicals essentially saying, «let the liberals die!»

Christians — conservative and liberal, evangelical and otherwise — offered to help.

Old - time liberals dismissed him along with Barth as being biblicistic and pessimistic, and fundamentalists rejected his alleged neo-orthodoxy as a «new modernism» (so Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Seminary) Even so, self - confessed liberal Wilhelm Pauck and leading conservative evangelical theologian Carl F. H. Henry found much that was challenging and admirable in Brunner's theology.

Third, in view of scattered signs among some evangelicals of an awakening concern about national and world problems, can all of us in churches — liberal as well as conservative, laity as well as clergy — have the grace to seize every opportunity for dialogue, to the end that we may begin to realize that behind our pluralism lies a God - inspired hunger for a better, more just world?

On the other hand leaders of the Bible school movement have been developing a theory of liberal arts education with the Bible at its center, and through an accrediting association have moved toward standardization and steady improvement of a program which seeks to synthesize conservative evangelical Christianity with a valid educational ideal.

Among them are liberal and conservative Roman Catholics, some Southern Baptists, some evangelicals, some Presbyterians, some Mennonites, some Calvinists, some Episcopalians, some Lutherans (not many), some from the Church of the Servant King (Gardenia, California), some liberal Protestants, some feminists and some liberationists.

In fact (and somewhat ironically), the missionary enthusiasm present in The Christian Message for the World — an enthusiasm engendered by liberal Christian expectations of the rapidly evolving «Kingdom of God» — is today represented more consistently by conservative and so - called «evangelical» Christians, who look to the twenty - first century in rather the same way the Liberals looked to the twentieth: as «The Christian Century.»

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

Churches of this model can be liberal or conservative, evangelical or mainline.

Raised in a secular / liberal home, Roose struggles to keep up with the Bible classes at Liberty and to make sense of some of the idiosyncrasies of the conservative evangelical subculture.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

The evangelical way has given rise to the broad stream of the modern protestant ethic in all its forms — conservative, liberal and radical, idealistic and pragmatic, individualistic and collectivistic.

Best Headline: Bruce Reyes Chow with «10 Things This Liberal, Social Justice Christian, Progressive Democrat Has in Common with Conservative, Evangelical Christian, Tea Party Republicans» ``... At the core of our discourse should not be an obsession with winning the future, but our common yearning to discover where God is leading us.

This approach, which one finds both in liberal mainline churches and in conservative evangelical ones, owes a great deal to the liberal Protestant theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher.

«It's a way for New York liberals to strike back against conservative evangelicals.»

Rivera, one of the most liberal members of the State Legislature, has reprised his attacks from two years ago: namely that Cabrera — an evangelical pastor — used to be a registered Republican, maintains ties to conservative groups like the Family Research Council and has praised the government of Uganda, which subjects homosexuals to imprisonment.

Indeed, despite initial deftness in character texturing, Meek's Cutoff reduces all three of its protagonistic couples to broad clichés — rash evangelicals, po - faced conservatives, compassionate liberals — leaving the film's fading enigma in the bound hands of their Cayuse captive.

Chosen Family brings together works made between 1993 and 2018 to explore these various positionings within three worlds: his liberal father's gritty New England life, his conservative mother's evangelical world in southwest Florida, and the queer families he has created throughout the country, but primarily in his own homes in Massachusetts and Maine.

Many conservatives, not just evangelicals, regard science with suspicion insofar as they regard it not so much as a politically neutral means of knowledge production, but rather as a mean for justifying liberal policies.