Sentences with phrase «from evangelical traditions»

Another church that comes to mind is Missiongathering in San Diego, which is associated with the progressive denomination The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), but which has a very evangelical «feel» to its worship because it attracts a lot of folks who come from evangelical traditions and enjoy evangelical worship but are looking for a church that welcomes LGBT people.

My own experience teaching students from evangelical traditions offers graphic and sober confirmation of the imperative to draw from the wider consensus of historic orthodoxy, especially in the domain of moral theology.

I don't think I'm by any means unique, when I say that as a gay person taught from an evangelical tradition, you have little choice but to seriously evaluate your position as «Christian».

Not exact matches

Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because of the fundamentally different assumptions that undergird both.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

As a result, evangelical liturgical practices tend to be far more fluid than the practices of more high church traditions, as the practices flow from a belief that spiritual regeneration precedes liturgical practice — and regeneration can not be reduced down to easily identified physical characteristics.

In one of Ross's most effective chapters, she argues that low - church evangelical liturgy has taken many of its cues from the Gospel of John, while more high - church traditions have tended to look toward the synoptics.

I have spent time worshipping within both the evangelical and Episcopalian traditions, and would argue that evangelicals have much to learn from more embodied - oriented traditions.

This forged passage above is, by the way, where the evangelical tradition of «speaking in tongues,» the Appalachian tradition of snake handling and the Christian Science tradition of healing through «laying of hands» all come from — and it's a complete forgery.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

To suggest that evangelical Protestantism points the way to «classical spirituality» is to blithely disregard fifteen centuries of authentic «classical Christian spirituality» and obscure the desperately needed benefits of this rich tradition from evangelical view.

Therefore in this column we will also report on such developments and events from within the Evangelical tradition and beyond for example discussions funded by the Templeton Foundation, as described in our Cutting Edge column in this issue.

Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath: Those in the evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath: Those in the evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in the church.

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.

These actions produced a dissenting movement which ultimately became the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, formed in 1976 from five synods within the Missouri Synod tradition.

The cooperation between Southern Baptists and evangelicals signals a new day, but it may also come with a price, namely, the diminution of Baptist identity and a sense of uprootedness from a particular tradition.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

If this is not to happen, or more accurately, perhaps, if this is not to continue, evangelicals need to recognize the problem and willingly engage in a therapeutic process of dialogue and joint formulation with fellow evangelicals from conflicting traditions.

Evidence from the conflicting theological heritages of evangelicals reveals polarities Evangelism and social justice, political power and the power of servanthood, the individual and the community, love and justice]-- all show a need for dialogue between the competing traditions.

for five days 22,000 christians from very different traditions all rub shoulders with each other, from russian orthodox to emergents, from evangelicals to franciscan monks.

Evangelicals must take with increased seriousness the variety of traditions from which they spring, for here is one major source of conflict in their present theological formulations.

The best we can do is acknowledge, with Kuntz, that there is a sense in which this unbridled and rebellious extremism in Russell's nature stemmed from a secularized Calvinist evangelical fervor in behalf of the quest for Truth, which constituted a venerable tradition in the Russell family (BR, p. 2).

The event featured leaders from evangelical and mainline Protestant traditions, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam and Sikhism.

But the Republicans benefitted greatly from changes within another religious tradition, as Evangelical Protestants simultaneously moved away from Democratic partisanship and toward both greater political involvement and Republican partisanship.

For example, at a breakfast conversation sponsored by the Emerging Women Leaders Initiative, women from main - line churches shared powerful words of hope and encouragement with evangelical women who struggle to have a voice in their traditions.

The evangelical movement's strength has always been its centripetal force — the power of its central theological and missional premises to unite those from drastically different Christian traditions.

Like any culture, the evangelical culture in the U.S. has its own linguistic affectations and quirks, blending together lines from Scripture, hymns, and tradition with everyday colloquialisms and figures of speech.

Young Evangelicals distance themselves from all that — from religious traditions, including Christian traditions, which distract believers from what's really important.

Many young Evangelicals apparently wish to signal their distance from religious tradition, even their own.

The groups that compose conservative Christendom are marked by distinctive theological stances and sociological dynamics as significant as those that distinguish other church traditions or those that separate evangelical groups from mainline denominations.

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).

The evangelical and fundamentalist traditions of Christianity, which have benefitted most from this situation, justify their in - equable communicative power in terms which, in the light of this analysis, can be seen to be false and self - deluding.

As a consequence of the displacement of these other types of religious programs, the growth of paid - time religious programming in the 1960s and 1970s has resulted in a marked movement in religious television away from representating a range of U.S. cultures and traditions toward representing mainly the Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist traditions, particularly the independent broadcast organizations.

The diversity among the evangelicals in these three phases of the new dialogue leads to an important conclusion regarding the continuation of the discussion While the evangelical participants can generally be described as moderate, they come from a variety of traditions.

In «Evangelicals and the Great Tradition» (Aug / Sept 2007), George discusses Beckwith's return to the Catholic faith of his childhood from evangelicalism.

At lunch I confessed to one of the monks, Brother Brenden, «I know it doesn't work this way, but I wish I could take the pieces I love from each tradition — Catholic, Orthodox, Mennonite, Methodist, Evangelical, Anglican — and cobble them together into a home church.»

Daniel Westberg, an Episcopal priest and professor at Nashotah House who learned his trade from Oliver O'Donovan and Herbert McCabe, has given us a lively and learned introduction to moral theology, one that seeks to renew a venerable Catholic and Thomist tradition by rooting it more deeply in its biblical, evangelical, and Christ - centered origins.

Its worth remembering that John Houghton is from a strong Welsh evangelical Christian tradition and makes no secret of his view that god will punish humanity for their sins.