Not exact matches
Olson knows very well how difficult it is to maintain the coherence of the
movement when
evangelical pastors and scholars
so love a good debate.
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.
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.
Several projects are under way to try to involve
evangelical churches in the
movement, but
so far these efforts have not been very successful.
The Baptist tradition finds a place within this narrative as a distinctive reform
movement within the wider
evangelical renewal, a reform within the reform,
so to say.
God's terminal illness — which Harrington believes is not being stayed by the
so - called
evangelical movement or other manifestations of a renewed religiosity — has given rise to other liturgies which are not as well developed as that of what Hegel called revealed religion.
His broad brush often covers the whole
evangelical movement, but here and there he suggests that «in the ecumenical community of the church the
evangelical tradition is an honored member» and that «its views of conversion, of personal salvation and
so on constitute a source of riches.»
While the reader may wonder how effectively the book will serve to dispel the stereotypical view of American evangelicalism, at the very least it illustrates the diversity of the
movement and
so should serve to calm those who worry that
evangelicals stand poised to reconquer American culture.
Curiously
Evangelical Protestants were responsible for the abolishionist
movement, but
so what.
But the plain fact is that the growth in Protestantism since World War II has been mainly among these myriad
evangelical movements, while the
so - called «mainline» denominations are in free fall.
I respect Van Engen's conservative word of caution, not that of an alarmist, but of an informed authentic mission practitioner, «In the twenty - first century
Evangelical mission agencies are becoming increasingly committed and involved in humanitarian and compassion ministries, children - at - risk
movements, and
so on.
Compared with such a noble complexity, in which ascending and descending
movements seem in no way to jar upon stability, in which no single item, however humble, is insignificant, because
so many august institutions hold it in its place, how flat does
evangelical Protestantism appear, how bare the atmosphere of those isolated religious lives whose boast it is that «man in the bush with God may meet.»
By E. Calvin Beisner, Janice Shaw Crouse, and Austin Ruse The
evangelical «creation care»
movement professes to be pro-life and, for the most part, rightly
so.