Sentences with phrase «evangelical scholars said»

Some 26 evangelical scholars said they could not commend the new translation to churches.

Not exact matches

The scholar I have found most associated with the claim in more recent Evangelical literature is Anthony Hoekema, an irenic Reformed scholar to be sure, but one who nevertheless has said that «it has been the almost unanimous conviction of the mainline Protestant churches that these miraculous gifts ceased at the close of the Apostolic Age.»

Someone has quipped that an evangelical can be defined as someone who says to a liberal, «I'll call you a Christian if you'll call me a scholar.»

I thought about the variety of faith backgrounds represented on this blog — Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists, Presbyterians, conservative evangelicals, agnostics, Mennonites, Methodists, Pentecostals, doubters, skeptics, fundamentalists, disenfranchised fundamentalists, religious scholars, and religious misfits — and all I could think to say was, «My blog attracts people who are in transition... or who have recently transitioned... from one way of approaching their faith to another.»