Sentences with phrase «evangelical movement in»

The modern evangelical movement in America burst onto the public stage in the national election year of 1976.

That one presidential gesture in 1981 validated Falwell's claim to authority, even though he was just one of many figures vying to lead the evangelical movement in the early 1980s.

Exactly, the evangelical movement in this country is on the rise, mostly younger, and a VERY powerful lobby.

Those in the mainstream media who ignore these trends, or who simply place conservatives like Huckabee and Santorum in the traditional Religious Right frame, are missing a big story about the Republican Party, the evangelical movement in America, and my generation's response to both.

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Complicating matters further is Osteen's association with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life as well as the next.

Evangelicals lack this clear tradition because, in part, they lack much of a tradition overall, being mostly a modern American movement that emerged out of several Protestant traditions.

Twenge and Campbell correctly lay much of the blame for the epidemic at the feet of the self - esteem movement, which has been enormously influential, not only in the spheres of popular psychology and education, but also as a central tenet of the «gospel of success» message heard in many evangelical megachurches.

In light of the last few weeks, the American conservative evangelical movement as a whole has been exposed as theologically thin in its doctrine and historically eccentric in its prioritieIn light of the last few weeks, the American conservative evangelical movement as a whole has been exposed as theologically thin in its doctrine and historically eccentric in its prioritiein its doctrine and historically eccentric in its prioritiein its priorities.

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.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

But in 1974 at the second national workshop of Evangelicals for Social Action, one proposal that was endorsed as a valid way to implement the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern called for a movement of evangelical, nonviolent dirEvangelical Social Concern called for a movement of evangelical, nonviolent direvangelical, nonviolent direct action.

Whatever else may be held in common throughout this increasingly diverse movement, the unity of evangelicals is their common goal of evangelizing the world for Christ.

A movement of evangelical nonviolence would immerse its direct action in prayer.

At 51, I remember the hippie Jesus freaks of the 70s when the Evangelical movement took off, which has a whole lot more in common with millenials» views than the current crop of Evangelical Pharisees.

The rallying cry became the «inerrancy of the Scriptures» (the doctrine that defined for its advocates the limits of the post-fundamentalist, «neo-evangelical» coalition which found expression in the National Association of Evangelicals, the Evangelical Theological Society, Christianity Today, and other institutions of the movement).

Do you think that, in criticizing certain expressions of the modern evangelical movement for being political / anti-intellectual, some of us have simply become (as Mike said in a comment at the end of my post) «total snobs»?

Christianity Today's editor in chief considers what it means to be an evangelical Christian today, drawing on the movement's history, theology, and spirituality.

Evangelicals who are receptive to and seek to appropriate the work of such writers as Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and others also direct theological reflection in the same tidal movements as postliberalism.

This helps us, for one, to set postliberalism in contrast to the recent post-conservative movement which has emerged among evangelicals.

In the case of the Emergent movement, I wonder if some of the additional cognitive dissonance comes from it moving away from Young Leaders, which (in my understanding) was primarily a group that was evangelical and relatively conservative theologically, and moving toward progressive EmergentisIn the case of the Emergent movement, I wonder if some of the additional cognitive dissonance comes from it moving away from Young Leaders, which (in my understanding) was primarily a group that was evangelical and relatively conservative theologically, and moving toward progressive Emergentisin my understanding) was primarily a group that was evangelical and relatively conservative theologically, and moving toward progressive Emergentism.

In terms of both constituency and leadership, evangelicals are in the forefront of the movement for more protective attitudes and laws regarding abortioIn terms of both constituency and leadership, evangelicals are in the forefront of the movement for more protective attitudes and laws regarding abortioin the forefront of the movement for more protective attitudes and laws regarding abortion.

IMO, what makes this particular situation so brilliant for examination is that there is destruction in both forks of the emergent movement, which was itself a response to destructiveness inside the Evangelical community.

In 1846 the Evangelical Alliance, a world - wide movement of evangelical churchmen, wEvangelical Alliance, a world - wide movement of evangelical churchmen, wevangelical churchmen, was founded.

He was rabidly anti-institutional in a manner similar to the anti-institutionalism one finds in Evangelical revivalism, Pentecostalism, and even someone like H. Richard Niebuhr who insisted that the true church was an organic movement, not an institution.

Finally, it is very very evangelical movement, so it requires a large school of apologetics many of which, like any religion in with new converts are highly zealous and incredibly hostile towards anything outside of the boarders of their particular brand of faith.

Like the American Negroes who adopted the word «black» from the enemy and flung it back, or the feminists who accept «witch» and «bitch» as badges of honor, Dobson and Hindson are in a mood and movement that take fundamentalism back as a banner for pride and boasting and wave it in the faces of the, in their view, waning evangelicals.

Like a lot of twenty - somethings who grew up in the conservative evangelical subculture, I've been increasingly drawn to the emerging church movement.

This is seen in the growing strength of Evangelical churches and of the house church movement.

I actually do a presentation when I seek to explain the modern evangelical movement, particularly to movement leaders here in the United States or to missionaries who have been out of the country for a long time.

Chuck Smith, the evangelical pastor whose outreach to hippies in the 1960s helped transform worship styles in American Christianity and fueled the rise of the Calvary Chapel movement, died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, after a battle with lung cancer.

I once attended a lecture in which a right - wing evangelical speaker used isolated examples of eco-terrorism to paint the entire green movement as having a «violent, anti-Christian agenda.»

The main contribution of the Emergent movement was to articulate progressive theology in a manner and to an audience that wouldn't otherwise hear it, primarily Evangelicals and youth.

There is a small but growing movement among evangelicals against unique friendship for Israel, embodied by the recent «Impact Holy Land» conference hosted by Evangelicals for Social Action in Pevangelicals against unique friendship for Israel, embodied by the recent «Impact Holy Land» conference hosted by Evangelicals for Social Action in PEvangelicals for Social Action in Philadelphia.

I believe in my soul that the evangelical church missed an opportunity over at least two decades to be the Black Lives Matter movement.

And with this point, we are back once again to Packer's place in the Evangelical movement as a whole: How did such a committed Anglican, a Puritan in spirituality, and a Calvinist in theology, come to inspire the veneration of a kind of Evangelical popedom?

I wanted Governor Perry to explain his relationship with David Barton, the founder of the WallBuilders evangelical movement, who preaches that America should have a government «firmly rooted in biblical principles» and that the Bible offers explicit guidance on public policy — for example, tax policy.

But if you look at what God is doing in the evangelical orphan care movement, you will quickly discover that large churches are not the only churches that God is awakening to the orphan care mandate.

The video of her talk went viral and sparked a fierce debate among evangelicals about their role in the movement.

It is clear that there is an immense buildup of political muscle in today's evangelical movement.

Thus, in 1975 when Dr. Robb (then president of the «Good News» movement) leveled a blast at all the United Methodist seminaries, claiming that in none of them could an evangelical student hope for a decent exposure to the Wesleyan heritage, there were not many of us in an other - cheek - turning mood.

These actions produced a dissenting movement which ultimately became the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, formed in 1976 from five synods within the Missouri Synod tradition.

In his mid-20s, he became an evangelical Christian, and a few years after that, he was recruited into the abolition movement in EnglanIn his mid-20s, he became an evangelical Christian, and a few years after that, he was recruited into the abolition movement in Englanin England.

It is fascinating that the movement would arise in the American branch of the Hebrew Christian Alliance (HCAA), an organization that has consistently assuaged the fears of fundamentalist Christians by emphasizing that it is not a separate denomination but only an evangelistic arm of the evangelical church.

The bad reasoning behind this thesis, which combines guilt by association with the logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc (the ecumenical movement became «liberal» because it was concerned for church union and social demonstration of the gospel), is part of the theological DDT in evangelical soil which inhibits the growth and maturing of the present awakening.

The friendship and cooperation between the Arminian John Wesley and the Calvinist George Whitefield during the First Great Awakening had shown that the two groups could work together in evangelism and make common cause for the evangelical movement.

The rest of American Christianity, continuing its movement of convergence, would then become increasingly open to learn from the evangelicals: first, to re-examine the spiritual dynamics of individual rebirth in Christ, and later to strive for a more complete submission of theology to the mind of Christ expressed in Scripture.

The shift in theology from mainline to Evangelical does not constitute a movement into heresy, even by Douthat's standards of orthodoxy.

Several projects are under way to try to involve evangelical churches in the movement, but so far these efforts have not been very successful.

In the Evangelicals and Catholics Together movement, both sides are equally committed to an ecumenism of conviction, not an ecumenism of accommodation.