Sentences with phrase «define evangelical beliefs»

The new report identifies four key statements that define evangelical beliefs, creating what may be the first research - driven creed.

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I know this is, in blogosphere time, old news, but this blog is new and currently on the subject of evangelical definitions, so fuh - giva - ness please.Bell defines evangelical for a Boston Globe interviewer thusly: I embrace the term evangelical, if by that we mean a belief that we together can....
The idea is to define evangelicals by belief rather than self - identified religious affiliation, said McConnell.
Among evangelicals, for example, belief in biblical literalism, church attendance, and identification with fundamentalism or other sectarian religious movements defined these groups, while among Catholics, we used traditional Catholic beliefs, church attendance and confession, and identification with «traditional» or «progressive» movements in the Church.
«We're not saying these are the only evangelicals, but we are saying this will define someone as having evangelical belief,» said Scott McConnell, vice president of LifeWay Research.
«Evangelicals are people of faith and should be defined by their beliefs, not by their politics or race,» said NAE president Leith Anderson.
CNN: My Take: Counting the Bible's words doesn't yield a Republican Jesus Stephen Prothero, Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» responds to angry emails he received after writing a Belief Blog post in which he takes issue with evangelicals using Jesus as a political tool to benefit the Republican Party.
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