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.
Not exact matches
The Protestant
evangelical primacy of justification by
faith, coupled with an overemphasis on discontinuity between the covenants, has more
often than not resulted in the confusion of soteriological and ethical categories, in the end breeding among
evangelicals a moral mindset devoid of both foundations and fiber.
Maybe it's just because I've lived in the Bible Belt my whole life, but when Smith writes that, among
evangelicals, Jesus
often gets «sidelined by the interest in defending every proposition and account as inerrant, universally applicable, contemporarily applicable, and so on in ways that try to make the
faith «relevant» for everyday concerns,» I totally get it.
Church
often serves as little more than a social club, and the strong
evangelical presence means that
faith and politics get far too intertwined at times.
Usually, my first reaction to these kinds of messages is to get defensive and frustrated by the fact that critical thinking, compassion, and honesty are so
often presented as liabilities to
faith within the conservative
evangelical community.
The literalist mentality does not manifest itself only in conservative churches, private - school enclaves, television programs of the
evangelical right, and a considerable amount of Christian bookstore material; one
often finds a literalist understanding of Bible and
faith being assumed by those who have no religious inclinations, or who are avowedly antireligious in sentiment.
''... young
evangelicals often feel they have to choose between their intellectual integrity and their
faith, between science and Christianity, between compassion and holiness...»
Longenecker, the Catholic, and Gustafson, the
evangelical Protestant, sometimes debate and sometimes puzzle together about the perduring and
often strange role of the Mother of God in Christian
faith and devotion.
From a national population sample, the poll found that those who watch religious television programs compared to those who don't watch religious television programs are more likely to have had a conversion experience, to believe that the bible is free of mistakes, to believe in a personal devil, to read the bible more
often, to talk to others about their
faith more
often, to attend church services more frequently, and to hold to or engage in beliefs and practices characteristic of
evangelicals as a whole.
She is an
evangelical Christian and says she
often talks at churches about her science and her
faith.