Sentences with phrase «evangelical mind»

He's trying to open the American evangelical mind.

Or, (3) McLaren is a half - baked moral and theological blowhard who gives lie to the common notion that the infamous «scandal of the evangelical mind» is the exclusive province of the religious right.

For there to be a scandal of the evangelical mind, there must not be just a mind, but also a readily identifiable thing called «evangelical» and a movement called «evangelicalism» — and the existence of such is increasingly in doubt.

Usually it is the evangelical mind that invokes the language of crisis or scandal to begin with.

And it is the evangelical mind that drives much of this renewal.

Best Point: Peter Enns with «The Deeper Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: We Are Not Allowed to Use It»

Perhaps in reaction to the «scandal of the evangelical mind,» evangelicalism of late has developed a general distrust of emotion when it comes to theology.

• Much has been written about «the scandal of the evangelical mind,» or lack thereof.

It is a symptom of what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» that our country's most developed system for selling Christian books doesn't want to sell intellectually serious books.

In its most basic form, the evangelical mind is an anomalous type of the Hebraic mind.

The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» worries that intellectually serious people have passed evangelicals by while we were allured by the sensations of revivalism, seduced by a materialistic market - driven culture, overtaken by the «disaster of fundamentalism» in the face of challenges from modern science and technology, and robbed of our universities through negligence and the inertia of secularized education.

Mark Noll intended his Scandal of the Evangelical Mind in part to stimulate moves across the evangelical spectrum toward a research - driven model that would enable evangelicals to advance knowledge at the highest levels within a distinctly evangelical worldview.

To begin with, I might call his attention to Naomi Schaefer Riley's God on the Quad and Alan Wolfe's The Opening of the Evangelical Mind, not to mention the thoughtful criticism and self - criticism of distinguished scholars like George Marsden and David Lyle Jeffrey.

But, apart from a touch of hyperbole in both articles, they give reason to believe that the time is in sight when it will not be accurate to say that «there is not much of an evangelical mind.»

James Turner on the evangelical mind, Commonweal, January 15, 1999 and Christianity Today on «The New Theologians,» February 8, 1999.

The first thing to be said about the evangelical mind, wrote Mark Noll in his much discussed The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, «is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.»

One of the problems I have with Mark Noll's analysis of the Evangelical Mind is an uncritical embrace of Richard Hofstadter's ideas about populist movements.

In Noll, the Evangelical Mind, and the Elephants in the Room, Dale writes against two of the claims he thinks Noll got wrong:

In an interesting new e-book by Carl Trueman called The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trueman revisits the question originally posed by Mark Noll, but with an emphasis not on the mind of the evangelical, but with the term evangelical itself.

He «utilized Hoftstadter to foist blame for the scandal of the evangelical mind upon those belonging to the Holiness - Pentecostal movement.»

It makes you sound like the idea of helping the poor is so foreign to you, your evangelical mind just can't comprehend it.

Mark Noll once observed that the scandal of the evangelical mind is that there isn't any, and it is my conviction, as one who grew up in the evangelical world, that such a scandal exists primarily because evangelicals have defined learning and the arts by the same utilitarian purposes outlined by Prof. Leithart.

Until recently Quiros's statements would have been considered heretical in many evangelical communities, where the faithful tended to subscribe to a creed that Christian historian Mark Noll in his book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, says meant «that we, and only we, have the truth, while nonbelievers or Christian believers who are not evangelicals practice only error.»

The writers are members of Evangelical churches in the Reformed tradition, profoundly dissatisfied with the «scandal of the evangelical mind,» but informed enough historically not to fall for the various «high church» reactions.