Evangelical theology refers to a type of religious belief and study that emphasizes the authority of the Bible and the importance of sharing the Christian message, or "evangelizing," with others. It focuses on the teachings of Jesus Christ and seeks to apply these principles to everyday life.
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The nature
of evangelical theology is determined for it by the nature of that Word of which it is the exposition and application.
Being aware of the diversity present
within evangelical theology will help process theologians recognize that there is a basis for discussion even though many evangelicals reject process theology.
LifeWay warns Miller's readers to exercise discernment because it believes his books to be inconsistent with
historical evangelical theology in some way, yet instead of refusing to sell them, LifeWay chooses to profit from what it alleges to be heresy (ish).
It may conjure up memories of an earlier phase in
American evangelical theology in which theology was customarily spoken of as being a science or a still earlier phase in which theology used to be described as the «queen of the sciences.»
Matthew Lee Anderson writes that the document does violence to
evangelical theology by focusing narrowly on homosexual acts and transgender psychology, and overlooking unchastity within marriage.
In earlier
evangelical theologies content and form were identical; the content of biblical revelation was crystallized into doctrinal form and this doctrine, it was assumed, would be self - evident to reasonable people.
Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final year of training for ministry, described the process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a
more evangelical theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into college with a fairly open view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.
Pinnock's utilization of the doctrine of the Trinity in order to avoid God's dependence upon the world has been developed especially by the Open concept of God to differentiate
evangelical theology from process theology.
Sadly, this «
new evangelical theology» — the prosperity gospel — has left a legacy of spiritual wreckage in the lives of countless believers who simply desired to love and obey God.
Having opined in public previously on the question of what
makes evangelical theology evangelical, he reports a recent breakthrough in his own thinking: It's not so much a set of....
Although many of McCabe's arguments and conclusions appear idiosyncratic today, for he was committed to a literalistic, moralistic, and
perfectionistic evangelical theology, 2 his analysis of foreknowledge and contingency still raises valid issues.
Second, stores that once had substantial collections of
serious evangelical theology now carry mostly celebrity biographies and very simple books about Christian life.
He cites the Welsh chapel he grew up in as an example: «In common with many Welsh Presbyterian churches, it was rooted in the
conservative evangelical theology of the 18th century revivals.
One voice leading the way
into evangelical theology's postconservative, multicultural future is William Dyrness of Fuller Theological Seminary.
The same currents are to be found in
selfidentified evangelical theologies; from the political fundamentalism of the Christian right, through the personal and social ethical concerns of the evangelical center, to the more radical stance of «justice and peace evangelicals.
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.
-- He's doing away with those nasty evangelical theologies
Most black churches in America
espouse evangelical theology, as do Korean and Taiwanese Presbyterian Churches, Hispanic Bible churches, and Pentecostal churches of all races and ethnicities.
Prayer can work miracles because God makes «himself dependent on the requests of his children» (Essentials of Evangelical Theology [Harper & Row, 1978, vol.
Notwithstanding these reservations, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry is a promising sign of
evangelical theology seeking to root itself more deeply in the tradition of the Church.