Sentences with phrase «evangelical thinking on»

I wrote openly this year about our struggles with much evangelical thought on these subjects and the catalyst for those conversations was this very book.

The literature on the recent phase (1970 onward) of evangelical thought on Scripture is abundant and increasing.

Not exact matches

And I think it's a wake - up call for Catholics and evangelicals to allocate all our resources on the next generation.»

It sounds rather evangelical, though Avakian is, as you may have guessed, a leftist, and in fact the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party» which seems, if we understand Revolution, the broadsheet on whose back page that quote appears, to think Mao too conservative.

Finally, while broader trends in American culture might seem closer to the ideals of liberal Protestants than their evangelical counterparts, I think both groups simply now find themselves on the margins of an American culture that seems out of synch with either brand of Protestant Christianity.

I also think that is why many Evangelicals feel they can treat non-Evangelicals badly and refuse to create Heaven here on earth.

The easiest way to pop Santorum's GOP bubble is to ask him on camera if he thinks Evangelicals are saved.

I think his observations are valid; I am not an evangelical Christian but I have, at one point or another, heard ALL of these terms and practices he describes from friends, acquaintances, and commentators on boards like this one who are «born again.»

The publisher thought the complaints were from people on the opposite ideological spectrum from Barton, a conservative political star who has long billed himself as an evangelical historian.

I thought about this recently, after reading columns by Ross Douthat and Alan Jacobs on evangelical intellectual life and the evangelical crisis in the age of Trump.

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....

(CNN)-- The Rev. Franklin Graham clarified his thoughts on President Barack Obama's Christian faith Wednesday, one day after the evangelical leader took heat over making comments about the president's ties to Islam.

They think God is comfortably seated on his heavenly throne judging us for not being evangelical enough.

CNN: Graham clarifies remarks on Obama's faith The Rev. Franklin Graham clarified his thoughts on President Barack Obama's Christian faith Wednesday, one day after the evangelical leader took heat over making comments about the president's ties to Islam.

Nevermind just the rhetoric of war, I think there is a common refrain amongst modern evangelicals that «God is on our side, so who can stand against us?»

Tell that to the most vocal Evangelical Supercross rider Trey Canard who broke his back last year... yet still thinks Jesus is protecting him out on the track.

One might even suggest that world - view thinking on the Evangelical side, especially its wedding of politics with divine law to create a city on a hill, reveals a hand tilted toward the creational mandate.

Most white evangelicals (63 %) and black Protestants (67 %) said churches should express views on social and political matters, but fewer (37 % white evangelicals, 45 % black Protestants) thought churches should endorse candidates.

Bill Taylor, Executive Director of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada, shares his thoughts on Christians and culture.

On only one issue do white evangelicals think Clinton would basically do just as good a job of addressing as Trump: dealing with race relations.

We have on other occasions been asked about the influence of Schaeffer on our thinking, and perhaps a word is owed especially our evangelical Protestant friends, for whom the impact of Schaeffer is indeed great.

I think that in this way, the emerging church is seeking to correct what has been a bit of an over-emphasis on apologetics and doctrine within the conservative evangelical community in recent years.

Earlier in our weekend symposium, an Evangelical Protestant with strong localist tendencies had expressed a certain sort of jealousy for those of us whose denominations operate on a parish model, for this, he thought, must make sinking roots into one's church community far easier to do.

Regardless of your view's on Santorum, the author offers us hope that Evangelicals are beginning to think beyond the narrow confines of strict Bible interpretations and understand the values that underlie the message of Jesus in the new Testament.

At first, some evangelical Christians might think it's good that Trump mentioned he wants to focus only on letting in Christians, but this is faulty thinking.

Evangelicals NEVER push their beliefs on anyone else, nor do the ever pass judgement on others simply because those others may not think the same and believe in the same things.

The contextualization of which this essay speaks is quite different from that in vogue in WCC circles and occasionally on the fringes of evangelical thought.

Here again, evangelical media could have a crucial role in focusing the thinking and concern of their adherents on issues like world hunger and the plight of our urban minorities — issues that correspond to the problems of slavery and child labor which 19th century evangelicals successfully attacked.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

I guess if you aren't an evangelical Christian, you aren't a Christian... reminds me of the Pharisees who didn't believe the words of Jesus, who wanted to have him crucified... what do you think HIS take would be on this issue of who is a Christian and who isn't??

Posting a website doesn't make your diatribe anymore truthful... you are an evangelical atheist troll who hangs out on the religion blog and attacks all people of faith... I'm not saying this as an insult but just a statement of fact... it's what you do but it doesn't have to be this way... I think you know enough to know that your way ends in an eternity of anguish... attack me now to save face but please open your hardened heart and take your own journey to find God... ignore the radical wingnuts because this is your own journey.

Because of what's going on with Donald Trump and how some evangelicals are supporting him, do you think more people who have previously used the term «evangelical» have a rethink?

I would much rather see us continue to focus on the major issues of Reformed thought in an admittedly pluralistic denomination than get into the debates that seem inevitably to arise when evangelicals have established their own «pure» denominations.

This is why the NRA and Republicans need evangelicals on their side — they need people who have been conditioned to not think too much about things, who think science books are bad.

Unlike some evangelical atheists on here (coughs Jeani) there is no reason not to think that Jesus existed historically just like Socrates.

Whether through an arbitrary selectivity concerning which texts are treated, or through a selectivity regarding which aspects of a text are thought relevant, or through a selectivity according to the literary genre and method of presentation, evangelicals on both sides of the controversy concerning woman's rightful role have too often truncated the Scriptural message.

«65» In the paragraphs which follow, it becomes clear that behind Wallis's question is his belief that traditional evangelical thought has failed to deal with our fundamental human nature as social beings, choosing instead to center on the solitary individual vis - à - vis God.

It's thought they were on their way to a Global Leadership Forum, which was organised by evangelical preacher.

Barr, an Englishman, far removed from American evangelicalism both geographically and theologically, illustrates his contention by discussing the perennial issues of Calvinism / Arminianism, Millennialism, and Pentecostalism have centered my thinking in this book on some of the more immediate theological controversies that are causing ferment in the evangelical world.

When one thinks of evangelical higher education, it is clear that historically evangelicals have landed on the side of forming students» lives as a whole.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller — The book that is likely on the short list for 90 % of evangelicals my age, Donald Miller made me feel a little less crazy.

CT has previously reported on efforts to overturn Russia's 2016 anti-evangelism law, what Russian evangelicals think of Donald Trump, and Putin's popularity among them.

Scot McKnight posted some interesting thoughts on his blog last week about what evangelicals do well.

Some Evangelicals wondered whether Catholics were really Christians, thinking that the Catholic emphasis on the Mass, Mary and the saints tended toward superstitious idolatry rather than biblical Christianity.

As a former evangelical christian, I think this type of careful reasoning (without too much name calling etc) is helpful to those who are trying to work through the logic of their religion and perhaps even considering a step away from their faith (a terrifying thing to do for most raised in an evangelical / fundamentalist home on several levels).

She also seems to go out of her way to pick on evangelical leaders, which is too bad because I really think evangelicals need to hear what she has to say, especially on page 10: «I'm tired of watching those who are supposed to care about the Bible reduce its stories and its teachings to slogans.

Finally, it sometimes appears that Wheeler's primary goal is not to demonstrate that Whiteheadian and evangelical thought are actually similar on soteriological issues but rather to demonstrate that it is possible to produce a coherent synthesis of the two, a synthesis which incorporates what is most illuminating in each.

In thinking about the public order, notes Turner, Calvin College has drawn heavily on the legacy of the Dutch politician Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920), but he agrees with Mark Noll's observation that recent evangelical political thinkers have also borrowed «from the Anabaptist heritage, from the mainline Protestantism of Reinhold Niebuhr, or from the neoconservative Catholicism of Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Weigel.»

I keep hoping that evangelicals will not think my work compromises their emphases on the love of Jesus and on biblical authority, and that liberals will not suppose it is inconsistent with intellectual openness or commitment to peace and justice.

On such issues, let me repeat again, I believe that the differences between Whiteheadian and evangelical thought are far more basic and profound than the differing terminology they employ might indicate.