Sentences with phrase «evangelicalism as»

Some see evangelicalism as a fiction, a grand public - relations ploy held together by powerful personalities for several decades but that has now run out of steam.

When I say that ecumenism is a central evangelical concern, I refer to the fact of evangelicalism as a global missionary movement intent on preaching the Gospel to every person in the world.

Part of the problem is a tendency in the media to equate the Religious Right not only with evangelicalism as a whole but with all religious conservatives.

unfortunately Grace has been redefined in modern evangelicalism as overlooking sin and this it is not.

These are books that have shaped evangelicalism as we see it today — not an evangelicalism we wish and hope for.

The Copelands are viewed mostly critically within evangelicalism as «health and wealth» televangelists.

Those conferences, which cost the BGEA tens of millions of dollars, galvanized evangelicalism as a worldwide phenomenon with a voice comparable to the Vatican and the left - leaning World Council of Churches.

Thus the new evangelization that marked the beginnings of Evangelicalism as a renewal movement within Christianity began on premises similar to those outlined by Weigel.

Noll blames the populist culture of Evangelicalism as antithetical to the life of the mind when it is this emphasis on folk culture that mounted a serious resistance to disenchantment.

It's this messiness that is still prevalent in the first and second great awakenings and remains with us in all of the revivals since that have formed the heart, not the periphery, of Evangelicalism as a renewal movement within Protestantism.

I think we are seeing the ending of Evangelicalism as it sounds the trumpet that attacks are indeed happening, raises its draw bridge, and retreats behind stone walls.

But perhaps as representative a procedure as any is to use as paradigms of current evangelical diversity four of evangelicalism's leading periodicals — Moody Monthly, Christianity Today, The Reformed Journal, and Sojourners These journals have been selected for they reflect not only a breadth of current evangelical thought, but a range of the traditions undergirding contemporary evangelicalism as well.

I can't think of any other nonevangelical commentator on American religion who knows as much about evangelicalism as Marty does.

I don't see this development as a sign that evangelicalism as a whole is on the decline (we seem to be holding strong with a decades - long 20 - to - 25 percent of the population), but I do believe it provides us with the opportunity to revise the way we think about political engagement and ready ourselves for a future of similar electoral choices.

With such major centers of the new evangelicalism as Fuller Seminary now showing a good deal more affinity to neo-orthodoxy than to fundamentalism (see Gerald T. Sheppard, «Biblical Hermeneutics: The Academic Language of Evangelical Identity,» Union Seminary Quarterly Review 32 [Winter 1977, pp. 81 - 94]-RRB-, surely we must be cautious both about assuming flatly a «decline» of classic liberalism and about implying a one - to - one relation between the liberal ideologies, whatever their current condition, and the oldline denominational structures.

Today, stereotyping evangelicalism as a whole only fortifies the influence of the political right on a movement that has a much more varied history.»

A review of a book about the rise of Evangelicalism as a separate movement within Protestantism.

Maybe evangelicalism as we understand it doesn't need our defense anymore: maybe we can open our fist, lay down our weapons for the movement or the ideology or the powerful, and simply walk away.

That's when I realize I have nothing to say and little to learn from somebody who thinks of evangelicalism as a church you can join, a megadenomination that comes in different flavors.

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

Gerald McDermott's description of evangelicalism as divided between «Traditionists» and «Meliorists» would be improved by recognition of the huge divide between so - called «Biblicist» and «paleo - orthodox» versions of «Traditionism.»

But a win for evangelicalism as a movement does not translate into a win for every constituency in the movement.

Either way, evangelicalism as a whole seems relatively stable, according to the PRRI, even if its demographics are shifting.

One could interpret these numbers as showing a shift in the racial diversity of evangelicalism as a whole, or as showing a decline in white evangelicalism, or both.

Evangelicalism as currently constructed should be dismantled, as there is little of theological substance that holds it together.

Not exact matches

So, is the Army not the responsibility of the federal government, and wouldn't their support for a faith specific event such as this (it doesn't even cater to all Christian groups, only the evangelicals) be seen as an endorsement of evangelicalism by the federal government?

But as I matured, youth group evangelicalism left me searching for more.

Typically, evangelicalism focuses on Biblicism and salvation as two of its major foundations and regards these as cutting across denominational boundaries, pointing to a deeper unity.

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

As I said before, I think this debate is healthy for Evangelicalism and I deeply appreciate the generous spirit with which you engaged my post.

Wells begins by positing two kinds of spirituality present within evangelicalism, distinguished in his view not so much by different doctrinal starting - points as differing priorities assigned to moral reasoning.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

As David Gibson said in a classic essay, Assumed Evangelicalism: Some Reflections en route to Denying the Gospel, movements begin by proclaiming the gospel, pass through a phase of assuming it but not making it central, and end by rejecting and denying it.

As with all reflection on evangelicalism, however, conclusions are necessarily fragmented.

In this way of conceiving evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.

While he maintains hope for its future as a reform movement within the church, he fails to observe that evangelicalism has taken on a life of its own outside the church.

More than ever, evangelical scholars should not abandon the identity as hopelessly marred by Trumpism, but, in the words of an evangelical theologian who did this well, revision evangelicalism and renew the center.

This form of evangelicalism is so distinct from classical Protestantism that the Germans, for example, would not describe it as evangelisch but would speak of Pietismus or the Christianity of the Erweckungsbewegung (the «awakening movement»).

Wesleyanism shares much with Reformation evangelicalism - so much so that many interpreters (William Cannon, Franz Hildebrandt, Philip Watson, George Croft Cell, and others) have emphasized the continuities and basically seen the movement as a recovery of the basic impulse of the Reformation.

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodationEvangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodationevangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

In fact, I would argue that church - as - performance is just one more thing driving us away from the church, and evangelicalism in particular.

The discussion about evangelicalism here at this blog for the last few days has been interesting, though I admit to skim - reading many of the posts as I succumbed to that Eyes Glazing Over feeling that I get whenever the essence of evangelicalism is discussed.

As the organization grew, Johnson felt a hunger to step out and share his story with people who are uncertain, or ex-Christ-followers, struggling with belief in an age where evangelicalism seems to have given up its core values in the name of bringing alleged child molester, Roy Moore, into the Senate.

Their hiring reversal hurt the GLBTQ community deeply as well as their allies, let alone the 10,000 vulnerable kids who lost sponsorships, so a lot of people were talking about how they were done, done, done with evangelicalism.

: As I survey evangelicalism I see....

While sexuality is indeed an important element of personhood, it is not he be-all and end - all of our existence, and as we've discussed in the past, connecting a person's worth to his or her virginity is a serious problem within evangelicalism.

Yet Falwell's support is hardly isolated, and I suspect if Trump is the nominee, he will continue to find even more of it from the Religious Right (which I designate as a subset of a broader and more diverse evangelicalism).

Molly Worthen's Apostles of Reason is an important contribution to the ongoing debate within evangelicalism about how to get along as a family of churches.

With its penchant to classify everything, contemporary Evangelicalism has labeled this debate as being between cessationists and....

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.