Sentences with phrase «evangelical beliefs thinking»

Her grandmother disliked Peppy's evangelical beliefs thinking her son had traded in a drunk for a nitwit.

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Zealous evangelicals who retain the anti-Catholic instincts of former days sometimes think that when their fellow Protestants begin to take an interest in the Catholic Church or to make sympathetic noises about Catholic beliefs, practices, and institutions, the moth has begun to circle the flame.

I imagine that there are people who choose their beliefs arbitrarily or accept what has been handed down to them without question, but I know plenty of evangelicals who are thinking people.

More white evangelicals (27 %) than black Protestants (18 %) think of themselves in 2016 as a member of a minority because of their religious beliefs.

Evangelicals NEVER push their beliefs on anyone else, nor do the ever pass judgement on others simply because those others may not think the same and believe in the same things.

I thought the article was interesting and thought provoking — a challenge to evangelical Christians to embrace Jesus» words independently from the hypocritical political group - think of the religious right and raise their beliefs out of the political debate.

«65» In the paragraphs which follow, it becomes clear that behind Wallis's question is his belief that traditional evangelical thought has failed to deal with our fundamental human nature as social beings, choosing instead to center on the solitary individual vis - à - vis God.

It's right - wing evangelical protestant fundamentalists who have conflated their beliefs with what they think should be public policy.

I think most of the Evangelical Nutters are no more familiar with what it actually says than they are with the religious beliefs of Jefferson and Franklin.

Many people think not; and to account for this slackening impulse in the highest and most complete of human mystical beliefs they argue that the evangelical flowering is ill - adapted to the critical and materialist climate of the modern world.

I think the evangelical community has gotten to a point where it is so steeped in modernism's emphasis on rationalism that it is obsessed with apologetics, emphasizing orthodoxy (right belief) over orthopraxy (right action).

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 used to think that way, until the evangelical crowd decided that they wanted to force their beliefs into the laws of this nation.

I think a lot of young evangelicals are getting frustrated with the apologetics - driven culture of modern fundamentalism, which often emphasizes «right belief» to the neglect of «right action.»

The reformation for which David calls is thus not one which requires a mere shift in doctrinal belief, something with which Evangelical leaders seem too often too easily satisfied; it also involves the transformation of a whole form of church life, one which he sees as starting in what happens in gathered worship on a Sunday and leads to a reorientation of thinking and living throughout the week.

Evangelical state legislators and school board members mounted similar efforts this year in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Alabama, and the Texas Republican Party platform opposes «the teaching of... critical thinking skills and similar programs that... have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.»

(Collins, an evangelical Christian, also explained how he reconciles his support for hESC research with his beliefs: Although he thinks the human embryo «deserves moral respect,» he balances that with the ethical benefits of using frozen embryos from fertility treatments that would otherwise be discarded to help develop treatments for patients.