Sentences with phrase «evangelical social agenda»
The evangelical social agenda dominated the GOP since the 1980s.
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The problem, however, is that after World War 11 a Party of fundamentalists again adopted the evangelical label to express a «neo-evangeliical» agenda that included an intellectual apologetic for the theological articulation of classical Protestantism, a repudiation of fundamentalist separatism in favor of a more inclusive ecclesiology, and a renewed social agenda.
Judging from the agenda then apparent in the minds of young evangelicals and charismatics, I viewed the completed shape of the awakening as including new levels of theological and spiritual depth, a reinvigoration of the ecumenical impulse, and a return to the balance of nurture, evangelism and social transformation present in the original evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The not - so - hidden agenda was to make evangelical Christianity the spearhead for social reform — at least partly, one suspects, to gain credibility for it as a theological alternative.
«His efforts were the most explicit attempt by any Orthodox hierarch to join with evangelicals and other conservatives in a common social agenda,» North Park University professor Brad Nassif said of Jonah's nearly four - year tenure as primate.