Not exact matches
Steve, your response is typical conservative
evangelical rhetoric... which is really just personal prejudice backed
by shallow
evangelical theology.
And what historical
evangelical theology is communicated
by paintings of cottages printed on mousepads, and T - shirts that print Scripture pulled from context across an American flag or keychains, or romance novels minus the sex?
His early religious outlook was colored
by the
evangelical Baptist faith of his parents and a Calvinist
theology of predestination - the belief that the fate of all men and women had been predetermined
by God, PBS.org said of Lincoln in its «God in America» series.
Worship and the Reality of God: An
Evangelical Theology of Real Presence
by John Jefferson Davis Intervarsity Press, 231 pages, $ 22
The Christian Zionist distortions of historic
evangelical and orthodox
theology must be debated and confronted primarily
by evangelicals but also
by mainline Protestants, whose churches sometimes absorb these doctrines.
What Meacham observes instead is dwindling fervor for the notion that the U.S. should be governed
by certain interpretations of the Bible or
by Christian
theology, an approach common among
evangelicals.
The latter, of course, is provided
by the concrete situation which is being addressed, while the former is the biblical norm in accordance with which an
evangelical theology shapes itself and before the God of which it stands accountable.
The shift in
theology from mainline to
Evangelical does not constitute a movement into heresy, even
by Douthat's standards of orthodoxy.
In fact one of the most serious studies undertaken
by all schools of
theology in the churches whether
evangelical or catholic is the relation between the one gospel and many cultures.
I read this article, «Wonder and the Revitalization of
Evangelical Theology» written
by Glen Scorgie in Crux Magazine back in December of 1990.
A third danger to
evangelical theology brought on
by inadequate reflection at the point of methodology is
theology's tendency to reflect current opinion rather than Biblical truth.
Since Christian
theology is
by definition
evangelical, it is both naïve and arrogant to suggest that
theology is
evangelical only when it fits into a particular position.
Since Christian
theology is
by definition
evangelical, it is both natural and arrogant to suggest that
theology is
evangelical only when it fits into a particular position.
Inspiration and Incarnation:
Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament
by Peter Enns:: I'm just cracking this open as part of the amazing Reading in Transit book club for
theology nerds.
About this Thomas wrote later, «In a speech on evangelism given
by the British
evangelical, John Stott, he criticized me for seeing too much convergence in the
theologies of evangelism of the Lausanne Conference 1974, the Roman Catholic Bishops» Synod 1974, and the WCC Bangkok Consultation 1973.
The return is deeper, looking to the treasures of the medieval and patristic
theologies and to practices that have long been ignored
by evangelicals.
Her
theology may be a hodgepodge and her driving a hazard, but she has had an experience, so she's accepted
by other
evangelicals.
In this respect Enns, an
evangelical, is close to Catholic
theology, expressed
by Pius XII in Divino Afflante Spiritu: «Just as the substantial Word of God became like men in every respect except sin, so too the words of God, expressed in human languages, became like human language in every respect except error.»
This article is adapted from a chapter in the forthcoming book Perspectives on
Evangelical Theology: Papers from the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the
Evangelical Society, edited
by Kenneth Kantzer and Stanley Gundry (Baker Book House).
By largely ignoring the central biblical teaching that God is on the side of the poor,
evangelical theology has been profoundly unorthodox.
... the alternative fear... [is] that the growing interest in what some have labelled ethno -
theology or «contextual
theology» (as opposed to systematic
theology) may be done without sufficient attention to a biblically critical analysis of the systems of anthropology and sociology and appropriated
by the
evangelical..
However, it is even more frightening when the definition of cult,
by an
evangelical, is that group doesn't have it own Law School or college attempting merge its own brand of
theology under the guise of «higher education.»
The awareness of differences results in concerns about process
theology that are similar to some of the concerns expressed
by evangelicals in Searching / or an Adequate God.
No
evangelical theologian, however, has made his or her way among the titans — though, titans in
theology have been hard to come
by in any tradition recently.
Whatever the religion of those in the «middle ground» the place where we find most Catholics, mainline Protestants, Jews and even many
evangelicals — they can not get
by forever
by arguing the
theology of «choice» and «rights,» while refusing to sharpen their understandings of «values» about «life.»
And «the priority of the relational» in
theology has become so central that Richard Quebedeaux has credited it with having a major impact in loosening up
evangelical theology, this trend being spearheaded
by Keith Miller, Lloyd Ogilvie, Lyman Coleman and Bruce Larson (cf.. The Worldly
Evangelicals, Harper & Row, 1978).
Daniel Westberg, an Episcopal priest and professor at Nashotah House who learned his trade from Oliver O'Donovan and Herbert McCabe, has given us a lively and learned introduction to moral
theology, one that seeks to renew a venerable Catholic and Thomist tradition
by rooting it more deeply in its biblical,
evangelical, and Christ - centered origins.
Steve Behr, a pastor ordained
by the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, became a plaintiff in the case challenging the Cleveland voucher program because he believed it was «bad
theology» for religious schools to take vouchers.