Sentences with phrase «conservative evangelical thought»

«But in the past several years, a new current has arisen in conservative evangelical thought: A small but significant number of theologians, psychologists, and other conservative Christians are beginning to develop moral arguments that it's possible to affirm same - sex relationships not in spite of orthodox theology, but within it.

In the past, the Reformed paradigm reigned supreme in conservative evangelical thinking, with various versions of Augustinian - Calvinist thought dominating.

Not exact matches

It sounds rather evangelical, though Avakian is, as you may have guessed, a leftist, and in fact the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party» which seems, if we understand Revolution, the broadsheet on whose back page that quote appears, to think Mao too conservative.

ESV is for the none thinking conservative and evangelicals.

The publisher thought the complaints were from people on the opposite ideological spectrum from Barton, a conservative political star who has long billed himself as an evangelical historian.

JON: I think all these terms are helpful to a degree: evangelical, protestant, conservative.

The contraception mandate and cases such as Obergefell and Masterpiece Cakeshop could lead conservative Evangelicals to think that progressives have targeted them for payback; I suppose progressives would call it a justified comeuppance.

Contrary to what conservative evangelicals seem to think, Christians live quite comfortably here in America — whether we have a Democrat in office or a Republican.

Usually, my first reaction to these kinds of messages is to get defensive and frustrated by the fact that critical thinking, compassion, and honesty are so often presented as liabilities to faith within the conservative evangelical community.

I think that in this way, the emerging church is seeking to correct what has been a bit of an over-emphasis on apologetics and doctrine within the conservative evangelical community in recent years.

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.

I wonder what he would have thought of today's evangelical conservatives?

«After 30 years of the so - called conservative leaders who have been elected by evangelicals, none of them thought to advocate for the repeal of the Johnson amendment, giving evangelical leaders political free speech,» Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University president and early Trump endorser, toldTime magazine.

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

We know that some in the conservative evangelical community have used this convergence to discredit those who have been engaged in fresh thinking.

It is not without accident, I think, that some of the most creative social thought emerging today in the church is coming out of the conservative - evangelical tradition.

Conservative evangelicals may think that old - line Christians are too concerned about philosophical grounding and about shaping Christian beliefs in light of that grounding.

Old - line Christians may think that conservative evangelicals do not fully appreciate the importance of the philosophical tradition in undercutting belief in God's reality among thoughtful people in the modern world.

I think one of the biggest contributors to the «status quo» is the whole «God & country» mentality that is so prevalent in conservative / evangelical churches.

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

Zhoag said: «I think the neo Reformed guys (DeYoung, Mohler, et al) want us to think that there is going to be a massive crevasse in the evangelical landscape, leaving people to either side with «liberalism» or good, conservative, traditional, scriptural (Reformed) orthodoxy.

I thought about the variety of faith backgrounds represented on this blog — Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists, Presbyterians, conservative evangelicals, agnostics, Mennonites, Methodists, Pentecostals, doubters, skeptics, fundamentalists, disenfranchised fundamentalists, religious scholars, and religious misfits — and all I could think to say was, «My blog attracts people who are in transition... or who have recently transitioned... from one way of approaching their faith to another.»

I think that Jesus would see the current «evangelicals» and «conservatives» who claim some sort of «christian right» as being misguided.

I like that Tickle doesn't waster her time vainly criticizing postmodernism, evolution, deconstructionism, etc., (as some conservative evangelicals tend to do), but instead takes these things seriously enough to think Christians can learn something from them.