The message offers the best
of evangelical faith and Biblical scholarship in a way that is accessible and convincing.
Most of my family practices either a mix of Native / Catholic faith or straight Native faith, although my extended family, from my grandmother down, adopted a
Christian evangelical faith.
After two weeks of interviews with St. Louis faith leaders and advocates, and several days on the ground moving between mobilizing efforts in Ferguson and dialogues
with evangelical faith leaders, I see the same dynamic at work here.
Losing Our Virtue extends Wells» critique of contemporary culture, with reflections on the meaning of cultural disorientation
for evangelical faith.
On October 3, 1949, thirty - eight denominations set out to win as many as possible of the 70 million unchurched people of this country to a
living evangelical faith.
Even the great Arminian revivalist John Wesley is suspected of
defective evangelical faith by Horton and some of his colleagues in two organizations, Christians United for Reformation (CURE) and the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE).
Persons or groups with strong commitments to social action or
evangelical faith often shun direct engagement with Wiltshire - like churches, dismissing them as lost to the cause, and instead issue more general pronouncements that avoid the nastiness of encounter with specific congregations whose values oppose their own.
But for Protestant partisans Margaret's witch and Luther's words serve to provide wonderful proof of the need for the Reformation, for progress along the drawn - out and thorny path from late medieval superstition to
enlightened evangelical faith — a path courageously paved by Luther, even though not followed by him to the end.
The message, rooted deep in this man of peace, offers the best of
evangelical faith in an accessible, inescapable way.
That's why we state at the beginning of the book, our commitment to a high view of Scripture and to a high view of Jesus, which has historically been key markers
for evangelical faith.
As in his earlier volumes, Wells shows himself to be conversant with various streams of social criticism as he wrestles with the present and future
of evangelical faith.
«It's a dangerous path,» said the Republican nominee for vice president during a public «tele - town hall» hosted by
the evangelical Faith and Freedom Coalition.
Without denying the place that Protestant reformers occupy in
evangelical faith, it should be said that classic Christian teaching, whether in the realm of doctrine or ethics, is best defined not against the backdrop of the sixteenth century, but rather in the light of the broader apostolic tradition.
What Sarah Bessey does is claim the voice of feminism for her own Christian faith —
an evangelical faith, no less!
I've never felt so betrayed, disappointed and angry with
my evangelical faith tradition.
Few before her had managed to survive with
their evangelical faith intact.
I remember having similar feelings of emancipation, of starting over, from scratch when I first began to realize
the evangelical faith I had inherited was not the only kind of faith there was.
The Prussian king, weary of the arguments about the Eucharist going on between Calvinists and Lutherans, decreed an ecumenical church that was to be open to diversity and based on a broad consensus of
evangelical faith that intended to protect liberty of conscience.
Evangelical faith is largely personal; evangelicals view themselves not as instruments of a church but as individuals freely expressing their faith.
I myself am inclined to agree with Barr about the poverty of this postfundamentalist theology and tradition for the future of evangelicalism — though I would want my evangelical colleagues to understand clearly that I reject this tradition not to reject biblical or
evangelical faith but to seek rather a more adequate conceptual framework through which to be more faithful to the Scriptures.
I'm talking about the Catholic crusades and inquisition, I'm talking about Calvin's Geneva and the protestant persecutions in Northern Europe, and I'm talking about today's
Evangelical faith - based support for the genocidal policies of the Israeli state:
Her innocence was despoiled, and
her evangelical faith tested.
However, Roberto deeply appreciated his mother's
Evangelical faith and love, and he reflected it as he matured, remaining strongly ecumenical throughout his life.
Both Christianity and Islam are
evangelical faiths.
The key, Hedges claims, is the certainty of
evangelical faith.
Small fundamentalist part of
the evangelical faith maybe.
For a further discussion ofthielicke's
The Evangelical Faith, see Robert K. Johnston, «Thielicke's Theology,» Christianity Today, 21 (June 3, 1977), 26 - 28.
We are invited by this narrative to relearn the healing process as it is given to us in
evangelical faith.
By contrast,
his evangelical faith makes salvation individual and by no means inevitable; it comes in a blazing moment of faith and decision, when a lost soul accepts Jesus as personal savior.
According to historian LeRoy Ashby, Bryan was sustained by «the combined heritages of
evangelical faith and the republicanism of the nation's revolutionary era.»
Phrases with «evangelical faith»