Sentences with phrase «gives evangelicalism»

Given evangelicalism's diverse history and its undefined future, it is both inaccurate and unhelpful to stereotype all «evangelicals» as the religious right.

Given evangelicalism's common loyalty to Jesus Christ as Lord and to Scripture as authoritative, such reevaluation is possible.

Given evangelicalism's common theological center with regard to Scripture, it is surprising to some when evangelical theology's diversity in approach and perspective is highlighted.

Not exact matches

New data released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Pew Research Center have given rise to a number of analyses of white Christianity in general and white evangelicalism in particular.

But in terms of priorities, focus, and direction, assumed evangelicalism begins to give gradually increasing energy to concerns other than the gospel and key evangelical distinctives, to gradually elevate secondary issues to a primary level, to be increasingly worried about how it is perceived by others and to allow itself to be increasingly influenced both in content and method by the prevailing culture of the day.

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.

It was evangelicalism that taught me to value the Bible, to give and receive testimony, to totally slay the motions for «Father Abraham,» to make deviled eggs.

Evangelicalism had given Morris a firm Christian rooting and a career.

I will forever be grateful for all the beautiful gifts evangelicalism gave me — a high esteem for and knowledge of Scripture, a heart for activism, and a deeply personal experience and expression of faith.

For some, immediacy is the defining characteristic of Evangelicalism, and any Protestant who gives too central a place to liturgy and sacraments is driven from the camp.

Second, they can join the evangelicalism stampede, providing heart - warming and entertaining experiences, which will provide very little connection to serious thinkers today, and gives scant attention, except for a few voices like Sojourners, to the truly catastrophic issues in the Social and the Cultural areas described above.

Sojourners (formerly called the Post American) gives voice to another opinion in evangelicalism concerning social ethics, one increasingly being felt by the wider community.

David Hubbard, «The Future of Evangelicalism,» given at a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary, Denver, Colorado, 1977 (manuscript of taped remarks).

Beegle's first book, The Inspiration of Scripture, proved to be the most controversial book within evangelicalism in the early sixties.25 Published in 1963, it was given ten pages of review in Christianity Today by editor Carl Henry and contributing editor Frank Gaebelein.

Here we raise the question of the precise relationship of evangelicalism and fundamentalism as historical phenomena, I do not mean here to give any credence to what I predict will be the common evangelical response to Barr — that he fails to distinguish appropriately a modern enlightened evangelicalism from a more benighted fundamentalism.

Roger Olson calls himself a post-conservative evangelical, and in this podcast interview with Homebrewed Christianity, he explains why he hasn't given up on evangelicalism.

Martin intimates that it was Graham, above all, who midwifed evangelicalism into existence in the 1950s, giving it a genial identity separate from the sulfuric fulminations of the fundamentalists.

To be sure, those involved usually have represented only themselves, since Pentecostal denominational leaders generally have not endorsed formal participation in ecumenical dialogue, given the movement's historic alliances with fundamentalism and conservative evangelicalism rather than mainline Protestantism.

Boersma is not yet willing to give up his quest re-Catholicize evangelicalism or the need for a contemporary version of the sacramental worldview, but he has set himself a difficult metaphysical task.

Let me give an example of» how this more complex analysis might work with respect to one historical case with which I am most familiar, the history of fundamentalism and post-fundamentalist evangelicalism in twentieth - century America.

But we can give a ballpark generic - package, lump - into - one - ball idea: evangelicalism affirms the necessity of personal faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior; it affirms the primacy of Scripture in forming beliefs and convictions; it affirms the centrality of Jesus» life, death, burial, resurrection and rule.

Even Billy Graham has been quoted as saying, «Evangelicalism is a great mosaic God is building, but if you asked me to, I'd have a hard time giving you a definition of what it is today.

We can try pruning away the patriarchal elements of American evangelicalism or we could try a scorched earth approach, she says, but the most effective thing we can do is participate in the life - giving and subversive act of planting new trees:

Brown agrees that Scripture is crucial to the Church as a source of transformation and that evangelicalism's emphasis upon transformed individuals gives it a valuable vitality Pinnock accepts the liberal effort to recognize the diversity in Scripture and the importance of Christians speaking to the contemporary situation.

We might not recognize any names, he warned; he deliberately had concentrated on ordinary evangelicals, hoping to give us a true sense of mainstream evangelicalism.

As a workplace for that quest, I could ask for no better environment than a graduate school committed to freedom and excellence (those twin virtues of the university) yet giving place to piety through the limited pluralism of a clear - voiced evangelicalism.

But I can't help but notice that the largest, more influential platforms within this so - called new evangelicalism typically give voice to people who have long had a voice.

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.»

While there is still a very vocal and active right wins, a broad centrist evangelicalism across the church gives a more unifying position than has previously been the case.

Given the overwhelming evangelical ambience of the Sunbelt, however, and the safe assumption that the RCA must reflect that attitude in order to succeed in the area, it is not difficult to predict that what has been the dominant theological position of the church may very well in the next ten years become a minority one as the conservative evangelicalism of the new Sunbelt churches joins forces with the existing strength of that position in the midwest.