Sentences with phrase «from evangelical institutions»

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Evangelicals insist I MUST believe in the Trinity and JW's don't want to touch me with a barge pole, so I'm stuck in the middle; but you are like a breath of fresh air as you prize away people from orthodoxy of «religion» and a dependence on institutions to the true Church, the Body of Christ.

But evangelicals tend to believe that to rest interpretive authority in a human institution is to shift authority from the Bible to that human institution.

What I am hearing from you is describing Wheaton College as a «beacon» and «one of the best evangelical and protestant institutions in the world» and you implication is that David is a «fellow Christian» that is slandering the institution.

However, it appears, increasingly, that Evangelical (and Catholic and Mormon) beliefs are the new «racism» to be excluded from the free exchange of ideas at institutions of higher learning.

from both Britain and the Continent have often failed to become involved in the discussion, even misconstruing its significance because of their radically altered historical context.5 In a recent article on evangelical identity, Gerald Sheppard goes so far as to claim that «inerrancy» is for American evangelicals «the official language of social identification, over against other so - called «nonevangelical» institutions.»

LaSalle Street Church in the Near North neighborhood looks like a venerable downtown First Church, but it actually began in the 1960s when evangelicals from institutions like Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute sought to create a grittier, more streetwise form of church life.

Yet some evangelical institutions are now growing wary of what they consider the aggressively anti-intellectual leadership of their denominations, and are moving to dissociate themselves from church - controlled governance.

Advocates of the Fairness for All approach argue that evangelicals and other faith groups end up with greater protections when actively involved in crafting legislation; if left up to the courts to weigh the rights of either side, Christian - run institutions and businesses — from churches to bakers — risk more severe restrictions.

Because its inclination to claim absolute and exclusive theological truth so regularly, moves evangelical doctrine into dogmatism, it may be unable to establish the intellectual foundation which distinguishes a university from all other social institutions.