Sentences with phrase «evangelical life of the mind»

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But in recent years I have come to appreciate the fact that many promising younger evangelical scholars got their start in a serious commitment to the life of the mind by responding positively to the LaHaye - type call to intellectual warfare.

Both of these forms of Counter-Reformation Catholicism think of the moral life as primarily engaging the will, whereas Evangelical Catholicism understands the moral life to be a matter of training minds and hearts, the reason and the will, to make those choices that truly contribute to goodness, human flourishing, and the beatitude that enables the friends of Jesus to live forever within the light and love of the Most Holy Trinity.

By continuing to slight «the life of the mind,» warns Hatch, evangelicals, for all their success at reaching people at large, «must sooner or later face the specter of Pyrrhic victory.»

The teachings of Jesus are not followed by evangelicals because they are in a war like state of mind because of their END TIME CULT persona to wipe out all muslims from Israel when jews and muslims lived in peace among themselves before the creation of the NEOCONS at the signing of the Balfour agreement.

It's probably the prairie kid thing, combined with the evangelical - mutt thing, but when acedia slinks into my soul, spreading into every corner of my life with an ooze, when my mind is fuzzy and apathetic, when I'm listless and worn out, burned out, on religion and parenting and marriage and family and everything about my life, I get to the daily, methodical, healing goodness of real work.

And he lifts up the singular role of Calvin College in gestating and nurturing an intellectual renascence in an evangelical world that has typically oscillated between cool and hostile toward the life of the mind.

But maybe we're not called to fathom the mind of God and instead to double down on what it means to be an evangelical Christian: to confess the faith and pray together, to proclaim Jesus in word and deed as we each feel called, and to live together in the forgiveness of sins.

That is how, in the 24th year of my life, in the 7th month, on the 7th day of the month, I set out on a journey to visit Ark Encounter with one question in mind: What are we, evangelical Christians, to make of this?

The question over whether evangelicals with counter-cultural stances fit in broader movements similarly came up as some social justice — minded evangelicals endorsed the main thrust of the Black Lives Matter cause in recent years without getting behind the organization's LGBT position.

Evangelicals who take an interest in the life of the mind inevitably encounter two types of fundamentalists.

My whole life I have seen this rabid behavior coming from the evangelical groups and my first impression of them is that they are narrow minded and hateful.

He is at his best in highlighting the various ways and places that evangelicals are attempting to cultivate the life of the mind, and contends (rightly, I think) that the «intellectualist» posturing of younger evangelicals is «merely be a way station on the path to rigorous thought.»