Sentences with phrase «evangelical zeal»

We await the publication of his novels with almost evangelical zeal, eager to be entertained and edified by him as by no other contemporary American writer.

Wesley's evangelical zeal stemmed from his conviction that God is a reality for all people, that grace works in all, and that all are called to love God and neighbor and can be empowered to do so by grace.

The suspicion grows that the clergy's ambivalence, if not indifference, to what we do for a living stems less from evangelical zeal than from the unacknowledged sway of aristocratic values, canonized by the classical philosophers.

But in a society perceived as amiable to the Protestant conventions, there was little evangelical zeal or countercultural determination in these colleges.

It seems that only those who defend the truth of one traditional affirmation against all the others are likely to maintain evangelical zeal!

Then there was the suggestion that John Paul II was just an actor, a flamboyant speaker, even a show - off - and then revelations emerged of his personal penances and austerities, the private spiritual life which inspired his extraordinary evangelical zeal.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

We await the publication of his novels with almost evangelical zeal, eager to be entertained and edified by him as...

Among the most effective priestly and episcopal leaders in U.S. Catholicism today, there is no antinomy between pastoral compassion and evangelical zeal, on the one hand, and robust Catholic identity, on the other.

Mission which is an alliance between financial strength and evangelical zeal can easily pervert the very gospel to which it attempts to bear witness.

The center of Evangelical zeal was to be found in New England, where a phenomenon known as the New Divinity flourished.

His passion stems for an evangelical zeal for reading, in particular the teaching of synthetic phonics, in which children are taught to sound out words.

This will give you the confidence and conviction to go out and market it with the evangelical zeal of a missionary.

In the end, my initial reluctance evaporated and I've embraced index investing with an evangelical zeal.

I believe that conservation of resources and controlling or reducing pollution are important goals regardless of possible climate change but that the evangelical zeal with which this process is being tackled is extremely dangerous, not to mention costly.

As an author and national educator, Aydt harnesses an almost evangelical zeal to espouse the practical and ethical benefits of the Code for the individual salesperson.