I. Background of the Dialogue between Process Thinkers and Evangelicals The publication of Pinnock's Theological Crossfire (1990) signaled a significant change in the tenor
of evangelical responses to process thought.
An expert
in evangelical responses to homosexuality says Exodus» decision is likely to be criticized by some conservatives.
Here we raise the question of the precise relationship of evangelicalism and fundamentalism as historical phenomena, I do not mean here to give any credence to what I predict will be the
common evangelical response to Barr — that he fails to distinguish appropriately a modern enlightened evangelicalism from a more benighted fundamentalism.
Cf. David N. LIVINGSTONE, Darwin's forgotten defenders: the encounter between Evangelical theology and evolutionary thought, 1987, passim, and «
Situating Evangelical responses to evolution)-RRB-, in Evangelicals and science in historical perspective, ed.
Also, in my last post, I shared an article on «President Obama, Same - Sex Marriage, and the Future
of Evangelical Response.»
I remember well
the evangelical response.
I think
the evangelical response would be the same if grocery stores were both hiring homosexuals while also claiming to be a para-church ministry of some sort.
I bring up divorce only to highlight the inconsistency in
the evangelical response, not to judge anyone who's been divorced.)
To help people make the case for a sound conclusion that has been clouded by passionate obfuscation, I recommend Stanley Grenz's new book, Welcoming but not Affirming:
An Evangelical Response to Homosexuality (Westminster / John Knox, 210 pages,, $ 18
Last year I wrote a brief post on the future of
the evangelical response regarding homosexuality after Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz withdrew from speaking at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit.
The Summit produced the Christian Declaration on Caring for Refugees:
An Evangelical Response.
At the conclusion of that meeting we released an A Declaration of
Evangelical Response.
McKitrick's motivated by religion and ideology to thwart efforts to curb global warming, as he declared in «A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor:
An Evangelical Response to Global Warming `.