"Conservative evangelicals" refers to a group of people who have both a conservative political ideology and belong to a specific type of Christianity called evangelicalism. They usually hold traditional values and beliefs and are passionate about sharing their religious beliefs with others.
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As I see it, changes like this point to ongoing discussion (and in some places shifting views) on alcohol
in conservative evangelical circles.
Most conservative evangelicals have been taught that personal opinions and cultural views are worthless unless they can make direct appeal to a biblical warrant of some sort.
Since many
conservative evangelicals seem to carry angst about the possibility that people might go to hell because they didn't do enough to prevent it.
Many conservative evangelicals, like me, believe that a straight forward reading of the biblical text indicates that new «kinds» of life were specially created, not evolved.
First, our recent dive into parenthood has made me exceedingly glad we ditched the strict gender roles promoted
by conservative evangelical culture in favor of a relationship characterized by mutuality and flexibility.
For those (like me) who grew up in
conservative evangelical culture, Chick Tracts are instantly recognizable: the dark, apocalyptic artwork; the obscure human caricatures that somehow resemble everybody and nobody.
I've been encouraged to receive positive reviews from biblical scholars like Ben Witherington, Peter Enns, Roger Olson, Daniel Kirk, and Brian LePort, as well as
from conservative evangelical women who weren't necessarily expecting to like the book or who may differ from me regarding some gender issues.
In her book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, author Jen Hatmaker mentions this tweet from @xianity: «Today is Earth Day, or
as conservative evangelicals call it, Thursday.»
They welcome the support for the Jewish state, many Jews say, but some are uncomfortable over recent Beck pronouncements on Judaism and the rally's close association with
conservative evangelical Christians from the United States.
In light of the last few weeks, the American
conservative evangelical movement as a whole has been exposed as theologically thin in its doctrine and historically eccentric in its priorities.
Lindbeck's emphasis prepares the way for better understandings across the great divisions among the world religions, but it also helps liberal Christians work
with conservative evangelicals, or, if those conservatives aren't themselves ready for ecumenical cooperation, to live alongside them more fair - mindedly.
There have been times when I have allowed my intellectual objections to some of the tenants of
conservative evangelical Christianity turn me into a bitter, argumentative person, eager to play the devil's advocate at every opportunity.
Taylor's post was quickly tweeted by several prominent pastors, including John Piper and Mark Driscoll, connected to the Gospel Coalition, a coalition of
theologically conservative evangelical churches, and a full - blown theological controversy was on.
«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.
Huckabee can make money by selling books to his base; the Republican establishment can afford to lose the vote of most
conservative evangelical voters as long as those voters don't ally with another large segment of the electorate.
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.
A candidate isn't going to get anywhere with most
conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of church and state, and maybe even opposition to teaching Creationism is going to lose their vote.
From Benjamin: I grew up in pretty
conservative evangelical circles, where liberation theology was generally ignored (or, if mentioned, might have been described as just another version of the «social gospel»).
A bright young student raised in a tradition of
conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»
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.
And I think those two issues really freaked a lot of
conservative evangelicals out because they were afraid: «Oh, are you going to remove our federal funding if we don't have gay employees?
I've never liked the neo
conservative evangelicals doing it and I'm no fan of liberals trying to end separation of church and state neither like trying to make gay marriage a political debate when it should be up to the clergies, not your politicans.