Sentences with phrase «evangelical women think»

Gratitude means a lot, and it seems that evangelical women think they get more of it.

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His argument in past articles that it is a good thing that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ordains women flies in the face of church unity, orthodoxy, and good theological thinking.

That Was the Church That Was (I think I can reveal without causing any grave difficulties to anyone) is dominated by factional differences between evangelical conservatives and liberal Catholics, by office politics, by money troubles, and by struggles over homosexuality and over the ordination of women.

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.

Eichenwald is careful to compare opposition to homosexual practice only to biblical offenses that he thinks evangelicals will have a difficult time opposing consistently: drunkenness, greed, pride, and the injunction in 1 Tim 2:9 — 15 for women to keep silent and not have authority over men.

Do you think the enthusiasm for Sarah Palin sends mixed messages to young evangelical women?

I think my project is especially relevant because «biblical womanhood» is such a hot topic in evangelical circles and such a real presence in the lives of many women of faith.

Some well - respected evangelical scholars think this means Paul did not permit a woman of that particular community to teach and dominate a man for selfish gain resulting in licentiousness (see recommended reading).

For example, I disagree with complementarian positions that limit the role of women in church leadership, but I don't think this puts me in the category of «revisionists» who are «open to questioning key evangelical doctrines on theology and culture,» as Belcher asserts on page 46.

And Dorothy Patterson, an editor of the new Evangelical Women's Commentary, notes, «Most people don't think about submission as being a topic in the book of Esther, but it is clearly in the text.

In the past, evangelicals have been uncomfortable with women joining this conversation, but I think it's time for us to speak up.

And — the million dollar question — why do you think that many evangelical churches today forbid women from taking on the very same roles assumed by Deborah and Huldah and Priscilla and Phoebe?

The vote followed opposition from teacher organizations, civil rights groups, women's rights activists, students, centrist think tanks, reform leaders, evangelical Christians, special education advocates.