Sentences with phrase «evangelical circles»

The debate continues within evangelical circles regarding acceptance of gay marriage.

As I see it, changes like this point to ongoing discussion (and in some places shifting views) on alcohol in conservative evangelical circles.

A progressive spirit burning for several years in American evangelical circles is prompting many in that religious community to take up activism on climate change.

Very few people (within Evangelical circles anyway) debate Point 1.

Sadly, this deception is on the rise again in Evangelical circles because of the teaching of a few influential men.

In many churches, especially in evangelical circles, this is one of the high days of the year.

Mr Driscoll has been a controversial figure in evangelical circles for several years but continues to attract around 14,000 people to his Mars Hill Church.

There's a permeating idea within many Evangelical circles that Hollywood is anti-Christian.

I've seen this commonly in contemporary Evangelical circles (as a response to the Fundamentalist - Modernist Controversy?).

Last year the well - known Christian rapper Lecrae, who had been popular in Reformed evangelical circles with supporters such as American pastor and author John Piper, criticised «white evangelicalism».

In 2004 Chalke's now infamous book The Lost Message of Jesus, co-authored with Alan Mann, caused huge controversy in evangelical circles when he compared God's punishment of Jesus on the cross for our sin to «cosmic child abuse».

In the chapters that follow, there will be detailed analysis of the current debate within evangelical circles over inspiration, women's role in the church and family, social ethics, and homosexuality.

I find all of this online chatter oddly reassuring because it tells me that religious nationalism does not pass as an unquestioned assumption within evangelical circles anymore.

It is much easier in evangelical circles today to insist on an orthodox Christology than on the biblical teaching that God is on the side of the poor.

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»).

If you've been in evangelical circles for a while, you will no doubt have come across the inevitable phrase: «Waiting on the Lord.»

«You see Asians gaining more visibility in American evangelical circles,» Chen said.

Jan 24, 2017 roy moore's alleged pursuit of a young girl is not uncommon in evangelical circles as the seat of.

The link between ministerial authority and teaching authority also relates to an extension of the visible church beyond denominational boundaries within evangelical circles.

The connection between religious passion and sexual passion is all too obvious — Jimmy Swaggart and Ted Haggard being examples in evangelical circles (other communities have their own object lessons), and Byassee's solution (if such it is meant to be) is perhaps too subtle.

In evangelical circles (of which I am a part), selective use of the bible is used to support positions already arrived at, and other passages ignored.

The move may be indicative of a much larger shift in evangelical circles (as you may have read) but the new rule is not a major leap.

Known by many in UK charismatic and evangelical circles for its contributions to the worship scene, Life Church's latest album, Dance Again, featured in the Top 40 secular charts.

In evangelical circles he is best known as the author of The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Westminster Press, 1984) and as one of the two founding fathers of postliberal thought, the other being Hans Frei.

A book by Michigan megachurch pastor Rob Bell, «Love Wins,» presenting a much less harsh picture of hell than is traditional, stirs discussion in evangelical circles.

If discussion of inspiration is to prove fruitful in evangelical circles it must move from dogmatic statement to matters of concrete theological judgment.

I would suggest that pushing back against patriarchal oppression would be to challenge the argument commonly made in evangelical circles that the bible advocates patriarchy with Adam ruling over Eve.

In evangelical circles, I think of Scot McKnight, Ben Witherington, Frank Viola, Gordon Fee, Jon Ortberg, Roger Olson, John Stackhouse, Brian McLaren, and many more, including my friend, Ed Cyzewski.

I think my project is especially relevant because «biblical womanhood» is such a hot topic in evangelical circles and such a real presence in the lives of many women of faith.

In the wake of the modernists - fundamentalists controversies, intellectual pursuits and the life of the mind — not to mention social ministry — were in serious decline in conservative evangelical circles.