Sentences with word «evangelicalism»

The resurgence of evangelicalism in American religious life can be gauged by various measures, one of which is the attention lavished on it by the secular media.

When there were still around seventeen Republican presidential candidates, Roger Olson was announcing the death of American evangelicalism as a coherent movement.

We've already discussed how this mass defunding reveals a pervasive problem within evangelicalism of singling out and stigmatizing gay and lesbian people, but today I want to address a common refrain I've been hearing from people who have chosen to cut off funding to their sponsored children:

If separated from theological moorings and sound doctrine, Henry views the future of evangelicalism as being indeed bleak.

I'm through with evangelicalism for good!»

Here is something that is well written about Peter as the Rock... Dave Armstrong — a convert to Catholicism from Evangelicalism wrote the following....

He concluded: «I heard the gospel at various discrete moments in my travels... That the evangelical gospel can still be heard at all above the din of what passes for evangelicalism in America today is miracle enough perhaps, to capture the attention of even the most jaded observers.

Given the overwhelming evangelical ambience of the Sunbelt, however, and the safe assumption that the RCA must reflect that attitude in order to succeed in the area, it is not difficult to predict that what has been the dominant theological position of the church may very well in the next ten years become a minority one as the conservative evangelicalism of the new Sunbelt churches joins forces with the existing strength of that position in the midwest.

And I blame the current situation in Washington on Evangelicalism which pervades the Tea Party.

One reason is because many of us migrated into Evangelicalism by paying the admission fee of exhausting our indigenous social capital.

Mainline churches looking to retain and attract young people, particularly «homeless» evangelicals like myself, would do well to look to Missiongathering as a model, for, at least from my perspective, they have managed to combine all that is great about the mainline with all that is great about evangelicalism into one faith community.

In an era of evangelicalism where there are church ministries built around the idea of «family,» marriage has become the focus of countless books and sermons and «family friendly» entertainment...

New data released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Pew Research Center have given rise to a number of analyses of white Christianity in general and white evangelicalism in particular.

McDermott gives evangelicalism another twenty years before it becomes unrecognizable as such.

(James 1:27) The global vision of American evangelicalism began in an improbable place, 1950s South Korea, as Americans encountered....

If the traits he picks out from American evangelicalism make it a manifestation of fascism, then the entire classical tradition of Christianity is fascist, too.

If evangelicalism is to have long term theological stability, it needs to learn from churches with properly elaborate confessions and catechisms.

The problem for them is that those who now most frequently define evangelicalism are more Calvinistic than Wesleyan.

Evangelicalism doesn't get our loyalty: that fidelity is for our Jesus.

Because Evangelicalism intentionally severs itself from the constraints of tradition and authority in favor of whatever produces authentic encounter, every generation must reinvent faith on its own terms.

We will be discussing The Next Evangelicalism in the next few weeks — hopefully with an interview with Professor Rah — so I recommend picking up this challenging and insightful book.

It was during this time, and then at Princeton Theological Seminary, that she began to experience a shift from traditional evangelicalism to a more inclusive faith focused on God's Good News in the here and now.

And remember when I averred that parts of Protestant evangelicalism seemed to be run by the Mob?

Do you agree with Scot McKnight that that this is perhaps the biggest issue facing evangelicalism today?

To speak of a fringe implies a mainstream, but in terms of numbers, perhaps the largest component of the religious spectrum in contemporary America remains what it has been since colonial times: a fundamentalist evangelicalism with powerful millenarian strands.

Since a society's desire to produce a standard, approved human product through a rigid control of thought and action is basically totalitarian, its existence within a closed evangelical context can properly be called totalitarian evangelicalism.

By contrast, conservative American evangelicalism seems to have replaced it with ecumenism by stealth or default — fronted by celebrities, driven by branding, and governed not by honest and open theological discussion but by back - room deals and the needs of maintaining market share.

It is this coalition that is dying a slow death, not evangelicalism or religious conservatism.

I broke out of my reverie to hear Balmer make a few comments about how evangelicalism will probably continue to meet at least some people's needs in the future.

It really inspires me to think that maybe my generation will be the one to sever the marriage between evangelicalism and politics, end the culture wars, and redirect our efforts toward feeding the hungry, helping the homeless, advocating for the helpless, pursuing racial reconciliation, supporting single moms, rejecting the seductive pull of power and violence, and earning a repuation as peacemakers.

The authors» response sounds like evangelicalism of 1947 - 1981: «While we appreciate the concern of the extreme Fundamentalists over keeping the Church on the right track, we must not allow them to categorize and label everyone to death.

But slowly in the 1950s, and then more vigorously in the next several decades, younger evangelicals insisted that biblical faith demands a strong commitment to both evangelism and social action, thus returning to the balanced position of much of 19th century evangelicalism.

Finally, there was Harold O. J. Brown, commenting in Christianity Today:» [Francis] Shaeffer asks whether Evangelicalism can tolerate in its fellowship those who are unwilling to condemn abortion on demand; [likewise] the inerrancy group is asking whether it can tolerate within its leadership those who will not affirm inerrancy» («Assessing the Church of the 1970s: A Decade of Flux?

CT rankedLeft Behind among the landmark titles that have shaped evangelicalism.

He doesn't want to push the «wisdom» within evangelicalism out of the way.

The public face of evangelicalism became most evident in the Billy Graham campaigns, by which the converts made at the mass rallies were redirected back into the denomination of their choice.

The EC is perhaps best understood as a postmodern current within non-denominational US Evangelicalism, although it is gaining a foothold in the UK too.