Sentences with phrase «evangelicalism seems»

North American evangelicalism seems, at the end of the twentieth century, to be living in such an era.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

WCC leaders and staff do seem eager to capture the energy of Pentecostalism, the assurance and growth of evangelicalism, the authority of Catholicism, and the satisfying and mysterious depths of Orthodoxy for themselves.

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

But what does seem clear to me is that confessional Protestants need to think long and hard about their connections to evangelicalism, broadly conceived.

The more I have tried to comprehend the nature of the Wesleyan tradition and to develop a theological method informed by its distinctive vision of Christianity, the more I have had difficulty understanding my own tradition and myself within the outlines of what most people seem to mean by evangelicalism.

This seems to be something of an assumption within certain corners of evangelicalism, and one that needs challenging, I think.

The leaders Trump or Clinton refer to seem to be the vocal and politically minded subset of evangelicalism, which of course is a subset of Christianity whether it's the Religious Right or otherwise.

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.

As evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addressed.

«It seems to me,» he responded, «that for you, evangelicalism is like the ex you broke up with a while ago but still stalk a little bit on Facebook.»

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.

When evangelicalism is construed so broadly, even to include medieval monasticism, the prospects for its staying power seem considerably improved.

«The fact that some pastors don't see the pope as their «brother in Christ» seems strange to many outside Protestantism and evangelicalism, I imagine,» Stetzer said.

Turner shares a widespread skepticism about whether the evangelical thinkers will make much of an impact on the large and multifarious worlds of evangelicalism, but of this he is more certain: «That [they have] made, and will continue to make, a substantial mark on American academic life seems indisputable, especially in history, philosophy, and, more recently, sociology.

«1) The Religious Right, which seems to think all evangelicals have the same political views; 2) The Neo-Reformed, who think Calvinism is the only faithful form of evangelicalism; and 3) The Political Progressives, who like the Religious Right think the faithful form of evangelicalism will be politically progressive.»

There were frequent comparisons of the best in «evangelicalism» with what seems to them the worst in «ecumenism»... The most frequent charges against us were theological liberalism, loss of evangelical conviction, universalism in theology, substitution of social action for evangelism, and the search for unity at the expense of biblical truth.

Much as Pietism and the Moravians seem to be the mother of revivalist evangelicalism (with the Enlightenment being it's father) I think Evangelicalism and maybe Pentecostalism is birthing a new «revival» of faith (with Post-Modernity as dadevangelicalism (with the Enlightenment being it's father) I think Evangelicalism and maybe Pentecostalism is birthing a new «revival» of faith (with Post-Modernity as dadEvangelicalism and maybe Pentecostalism is birthing a new «revival» of faith (with Post-Modernity as daddy this time).

... the fear often is expressed that the «rather amorphous middle position termed «evangelicalism, living between a left wing capitulation to ethnology - sociology and a right wing reaction to the same disciplines, «seems more ready to expend their time and energy in defense of older formulations of Christian truths than to grapple with the matter of reformulating these truths in terms of new conceptual frameworks.»

There does not seem to exist a vocabulary within evangelicalism with which to talk about men and women who are sexually active, but not promiscuous.

We all know a secular person or three who converted, a Jew for Jesus, a Catholic who switched, a mainstream Protestant's child who was Campus Crusaded and is born again, but there seems to have been no move of a cohort, no mass migration into evangelicalism and conservative Protestantism.

Or at least in this author's mind, it seems he wants to redefine or redraw the lines of evangelicalism to exclude liberals.

What is more, the research by James Hunter and others has shown that the «strength» of evangelicalism is not as durable as it seems, as younger and more educated members of those churches are subjected to the powerful influences of the wider culture.

It seems to me, that the very good books about honor are the following: The Sacred Mirror: Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South and Honor, Shame, and Guilt: Social - Scientific Approaches to the Book of Ezekiel.