Sentences with phrase «evangelical fervor»
The phrase "evangelical fervor" refers to a strong and passionate enthusiasm or excitement for sharing one's religious beliefs and persuading others to adopt the same beliefs. Full definition
No doubt there is some justification for their belief that the lessening of knowledge and conviction about these doctrines has left a void that leads to lack of evangelical fervor in the church as a whole.
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Today's evangelicals rightly identify the loss of conviction about Biblical authority as a major source of the decline of evangelical fervor in the United Methodist Church.
He's far more interested in finding himself through spiritual questioning, a practice that he champions with almost evangelical fervor as an emotional counterpoint to the «dead end» of postmoderism.
I was invited to speak to faith communities that displayed a crazy blend of evangelical fervor and progressive inclusivism, that included a diverse group of people politically, theologically, and socially, and that loved one another like I've never seen before.
The authors usefully highlight the ways in which the evangelical fervor of the nineteenth century gave women considerably expanded space for social leadership, and they view people such as Matthews and Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, as reacting, at least in significant part, to this challenge to patriarchy.
The unspoken purpose is to gather together as many uninformed delegates as possible and persuade them with evangelical fervor that one's causes are just, one's explicit intentions are righteous and the strategy should be to create a unity of purpose out of a babel of competing interests.
Lake, Epstein and company bring an evangelical fervor to their argument, and there's no point looking for balance from the film's talking heads, who blame hospital maternity wards for everything from the rise in autism to the end of mother - child bonding.
She marries one of her former lovers, Randy (David Duchovny), who takes up Sharon's evangelical fervor to atone for his past as a hired killer, and they have a daughter.
If only teachers would free their hard - working hides from the ripping talons of the union bird - of - prey, Right - to - Work Heaven would be ensconced on earth, believes Finn with evangelical fervor.