For example, I disagree with complementarian positions that limit the role of women in church leadership, but I don't think this puts me in the category of «revisionists» who are «open to questioning key
evangelical doctrines on theology and culture,» as Belcher asserts on page 46.
Campolo says there's a world of podcasts, books, events and more aimed at young evangelicals who are re-thinking historic
evangelical doctrines on hell, sovereignty, biblical infallibility, sexuality etc..
Not exact matches
In a session
on Evangelicals and the Second Vatican Council at the ETS, one older man complained that «Catholics don't budge an inch
on any
doctrine» and that for Catholics «dialogue is just a way of gobbling up weaker churches, like an amoeba.»
Many
evangelicals, Catholics, and others sincerely believe that Christianity's
doctrines on marriage and sex are inextricably tied up with the foundations of the faith.
Among
evangelicals, so much emphasis has been placed
on the
doctrine of substiutionary atonement that the focus has shifted away from FOLLOWING the life and teachings of Jesus (in order to be saved from sin) to simply BELIEVING in the death and resurrection of Jesus (in order to be saved from judgment).
This then raises the ecumenical practical question: Why do
evangelicals see agreement
on soteriology, and not
on the
doctrine of God, as the necessary precondition for ecumenism?
And they must admit that
on paper and purely cognitively, so far as the content of fundamental
doctrines is concerned, most
evangelicals have these «right.»
I think that in this way, the emerging church is seeking to correct what has been a bit of an over-emphasis
on apologetics and
doctrine within the conservative
evangelical community in recent years.
Radio ministers not only kept
evangelical doctrine before the people; they made it clear that legions still built
on the firm foundation and walked
on the ancient pathways, and would teach their children to do the same.
One recent paper read at a meeting of the
Evangelical Theological Society (again, by a scholar from one of Lindsell's «safe» schools) vigorously defended the inerrancy
doctrine but then rushed
on to the hermeneutical level to distinguish between the timebound Weltbild of Scripture which may be discarded and the eternal Weltanschauung of Scripture which must be preserved.
While
Evangelicals find no biblical warrant for the
doctrine of Purgatory, we together affirm with Paul, «If the work which any man has built
on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
And though they eventually made up, their disagreement has lived
on in American
evangelicals» waxing and waning debates about God's sovereignty and the
doctrines of election and free will.
Perhaps conservative
evangelicals run the risk of being needlessly dogmatic
on some issues, thereby alienating the next generation, while progressives are in danger of giving up so much historic
doctrine that their faith is starting to look more like Campolo's humanism than historic Christianity.
There are a number of ways in which
evangelicals are whittling away at the
doctrine of separation, and in effect are «standing the founding fathers
on their heads.»
Tragically,
evangelical theology has largely ignored this
doctrine, and thus our theology has been unbiblical — indeed, even heretical —
on this important point.
Surveying the American past with
Evangelicals as their focus, Finke and Stark discover the same «law» of American church history that Kelley did two decades ago: «To the degree that denominations rejected traditional
doctrines and ceased to make serious demands
on their followers, they ceased to prosper.»
On the green side we have what I call the stewardship
doctrine, which is popular with some
Evangelicals.