Sentences with phrase «evangelical fervor in»

The best we can do is acknowledge, with Kuntz, that there is a sense in which this unbridled and rebellious extremism in Russell's nature stemmed from a secularized Calvinist evangelical fervor in behalf of the quest for Truth, which constituted a venerable tradition in the Russell family (BR, p. 2).

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.

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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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.

If evangelicals would direct their criticism chiefly to the absence of conviction and fervor, so widespread, in the church, they could play a very positive, and authentically Wesleyan, role in promoting serious doctrinal study in the church.

It strikes me that an incarnational humanism of the kind posited by Crosby (and a position articulated by many thinkers of the Reformed persuasion) need not threaten in the least the evangelistic fervor of those of us who count ourselves among American evangelicals.

But we need to ask ourselves, given the current hyper - religious fervor in this country, if we can take the chance of having evangelicals in positions of power — particularly the presidency.

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.

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.