Sentences with phrase «early evangelical women»

Early evangelical women contributed to one of the greatest expansions of Christian faith in all of history.

As I have celebrated the leadership of early evangelical women, while speaking at evangelical colleges, not everyone has been terribly pleased.

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His early religious outlook was colored by the evangelical Baptist faith of his parents and a Calvinist theology of predestination - the belief that the fate of all men and women had been predetermined by God, PBS.org said of Lincoln in its «God in America» series.

The early evangelicals, like Katharine Bushnell, understood that for too long the church associated women with Eve's sin and men with Christ's victories over sin — a view that wreaks havoc on the Christian view of sanctification.

Embroiled in the struggle for abolition and suffrage, the early evangelicals opposed the idea that Eve, and therefore all women, are the source of sin and that God punishes women because of Eve.

One early position, which still continues to be important in the evangelical community, is to affirm that the Bible, when correctly interpreted, affirms women's full humanity.