Sentences with phrase «evangelicalism out»

The earlier evolution of evangelicalism out of fundamentalism and its current atavistic tendencies back toward fundamentalism represent a striking illustration of Ernst Troeltsch's notions of sect - to - church - to - sect development (The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches [Macmillan, 1931]-RRB-.

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

Not exact matches

The point here is basically that each way of conceiving of evangelicalism produces a different population when each net is used to pull out of both church history and contemporary experience a coherently related and defined subset.

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.

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.

Check out Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times or The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity)

For a more scholarly look at the tern «evangelical,» check out this interesting piece from the Centre for Research on Candadian Evangelicalism, shared by Scot McKnight on his Jesus Creed blog.

Similarly, when it comes to biblical interpretation within evangelicalism, I've experienced a sort of «flattening - out» of Scripture in which the words of David carry the same weight as the words of Paul, which carry the same weight as the words of Christ.

Women play complicated roles in Evangelicalism, all worked out within the framework of Protestantism's emphasis on maximizing lay participation.

It has become something of a sport for folks in the evangelical, neo-Reformed tradition to take to the internet to draw out the «boundaries of evangelicalism,» boundaries which inevitably fall around their own particular theological distinctions and which seem to grow narrower and narrower with every blog post on the topic.

I certainly hope we create a community here where everyone - those leaving evangelicalism, those staying, and those just trying to figure it out - is welcome to the table, so long as it is approached with peace.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

These are large and ambitious forms of construction and there are many lesser examples of it in and out of evangelicalism.

The longing for a tradition that will make sense out of our evangelical tower of Babel, the recoil from self - serving exegesis, and the dissatisfaction with the miserable and stultifying parochialism of much evangelicalism are entirely understandable.

One of the dominant eschatological views within evangelicalism is premillenial dispensationalism, a system that carves out a significant role for an earthly Jewish state in the events at the end of days.

Reflecting still a third perspective within evangelicalism, David Moberg in the second part of his book Inasmuch: Christian Social Responsibility in Twentieth Century America spells out the Scriptural basis for Christian social concern.

His fundamental point is the need to recover the Great Tradition within Evangelicalism and thus to read scripture in and through the lens of the church spread out through time.

So, Carl Henry stood up in the 50s and 60s and said something had to be done, and out of his famous book «Uneasy Conscience» arose a new movement: «evangelicalism.»

Even after I got out of fundamentalist evangelicalism and got in what could have been a very good Episcopal Church, I found that one ringing out.

I'm wondering if there are more Christians like me out there, who are tired of being associated with evangelicalism, and who are looking for a new term to describe their religious affiliation.

Niebuhr singled out Billy Graham as a personable and honorable exponent of pietistic evangelicalism.

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:

H. Berkof points out that German theologians had played a leading part in the concentration of forces of evangelicalism by a combination of confessional Lutheranism and pietism.

A heyschast shift in evangelicalism, into the depths of spiritual silence instead of out into imagined political glory, would be less a retreat back into Fundamentalism than a maturation of the movement in an hour of exceptional need.

Yet, and I think most of us feel it: evangelism has fallen out of style in much of evangelicalism in America the last decade or so.

As you know, we tried to start a church that was a blend of evangelicalism and progressivism here in Dayton and it didn't exactly pan out.

As Scot McKnight points out, some conversions from evangelicalism to Rome may not simply be the result of a failure to instil theology.

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.

Although understandable, «the longing for a tradition that will make sense out of our evangelical tower of Babel, the recoil from self serving exegesis, and the dissatisfaction with the miserable and stultifying parochialism of much evangelicalism» should not cause us to opt for an authoritative creed (and an authoritative church resting behind the creed).

Frankly, this blog strikes me as one of those deals where the former pastor figures out that all the other religious people are wrong, and he doesn't want to be one of those «fundie douchebags» (to quote one of your fans), and so he starts spewing cynical knee - jerk vitriol against anything that smacks of conservativism or evangelicalism or whatever.

It is increasingly difficult to provide an inclusive definition of evangelicalism (Donald Dayton's article is helpful in pointing out the variety).

My own experience, like many of those who grew up in evangelicalism, was marked by conversions and reconversions and re-reconversions, between which I wandered aimlessly until finding my way into sin and then out again through walking down for the altar call.

Says Hoover, «By appearing on and being part of television (secular modernism at its most profane), the 700 Club transcends the lower - class origins of the evangelicalism and fundamentalism out of which it springs.»

Once I had to spell out, literally, the difference between «evangelicalism» and «evangelism.»

Indeed, the headline «Author Describes Journey In and Out of Church Through the Imagery of Seven Sacraments» is far less interesting than «Author Gives the Middle Finger to Evangelicalism For the High of Smells and Bells.»

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.

As noted above, when pietistic sentiments and revivalistic techniques swept to the crest of evangelicalism in America, the conversion of souls tended to crowd out other aspects of the minister's work.