Sentences with phrase «emergent evangelical movement»

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As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

In the case of the Emergent movement, I wonder if some of the additional cognitive dissonance comes from it moving away from Young Leaders, which (in my understanding) was primarily a group that was evangelical and relatively conservative theologically, and moving toward progressive Emergentism.

IMO, what makes this particular situation so brilliant for examination is that there is destruction in both forks of the emergent movement, which was itself a response to destructiveness inside the Evangelical community.

The Emergent movement always struck me as a way to introduce mainstream Protestant theology into the Evangelical church, without all the baggage of a larger church structure and oversight.

The main contribution of the Emergent movement was to articulate progressive theology in a manner and to an audience that wouldn't otherwise hear it, primarily Evangelicals and youth.