Sentences with phrase «evangelical scholars»

"Evangelical scholars" refers to academics or experts who study and interpret religious teachings, particularly those of the evangelical Christian faith. They employ their knowledge and expertise to analyze scripture, theology, and other aspects of evangelical beliefs and practices. Full definition
Just as the nature of Christ as God and man challenged the full faculties of the faith and reason of Augustine and the Church Fathers, so the nature of Scripture as the Word of God and the word of human authors challenges the full faculties of the faith and reason of evangelical scholars and missionaries today.
• Richard J. Mouw has written a wonderful book, Called to the Life of the Mind: Some Advice for Evangelical Scholars (Eerdmans, 2014).
To that end we invited contributions from fifteen leading evangelical scholars across the country — primarily, but not solely, missiologists.
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.
Recently joining the fray was evangelical scholar Ben Witherington III of Asbury Theological Seminary a prolific author of New Testament studies.
Maybe Evangelical scholars should stop treating folk culture as though it's commensurate with mass culture.
Some well - respected evangelical scholars think this means Paul did not permit a woman of that particular community to teach and dominate a man for selfish gain resulting in licentiousness (see recommended reading).
Some 26 evangelical scholars said they could not commend the new translation to churches.
On the one hand, evangelical scholars like Craig Keener have amassed considerable evidence for modern miracles that parallel those in the Bible.
Evangelical scholar Donald G. Bloesch makes a modest concession to views of the Spirit as feminine in his recently published book Is the Bible Sexist?
With an introduction by the distinguished evangelical scholar Mark Noll, Best Christian Writing 2006 is the fifth in John Wilson's series of annual collections.
Some American evangelical scholars and pastors popularized this view in the mid-20th century, and it continues to be widely held among many Baptist and non-denominational churches.
For evangelical scholars, the best explanation is the one given in all four Gospels — that Jesus had indeed risen from the dead.
We worked alongside leading evangelical scholars and theologians including Thomas C. Oden, Harold O. J. Brown, Cheryl Bridges Johns, and Kevin Vanhoozer, among others.
More than ever, evangelical scholars should not abandon the identity as hopelessly marred by Trumpism, but, in the words of an evangelical theologian who did this well, revision evangelicalism and renew the center.
Those of us who call ourselves «evangelical scholars» are accustomed to suspicion from the church and incredulity from the academy.
To summarize: the Years of the Evangelicals have been good to evangelical scholars, partly because those scholars have helped.
Sir John Houghton, an evangelical scholar and scientist who played a key role in the international panels studying climate change, sealed the deal with a speech to a prayerful meeting that gathered quietly more than a year ago in a Maryland conference center.
In the early 1980s, a new generation of Evangelical scholars, George Marsden eminent among them, challenged the stereotype of Fundamentalism as intellectually vacuous and out of sync with dominant trends in American culture.
Evangelical scholars have begun to write books about Mary, with two volumes, Tim Perry's Mary for Evangelicals and Scot McKnight's The Real Mary, appearing just this past year.
In 1994 five evangelical scholars, led by Canadian Baptist theologian Clark....
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