Sentences with phrase «growth in conservative churches»

A combination of economic growth with the conservation of the dualistic worldview of Victorian America — especially attitudes related to sexuality — partially accounts for growth in conservative churches.

We see it in the Jesus movement, the charismatic revival with its speaking in tongues, the growth in conservative churches while others decline in numbers and influence, the turn toward Eastern meditative cults, the upsurge once more of belief in an imminent second coming of Christ to put an end to the distresses of our time.

Not exact matches

The graying of the churches in relation to conservative Protestants means two things, both of them unconducive to growth: more members are dying off and.

Despite the hopes I have had for the churches in Britain, I have to admit that the areas of church growth have in most cases been amongst the more conservative churches.

The question, however, is whether despite the growth of conservative churches both in Europe and North America and in other parts of the world, and the likelihood that they will remain strong, they offer the key to the future in a world that is changing very quickly.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

The first problem here is that, minus signs or not, the fluctuating growth rates for the oldline churches (quite healthy growth during the postwar revival; decline during the 1970s; some recovery in the first half of the «80s) tell us little if they are not compared, and compared over a number of decades, with the growth rates for the conservative churches.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

In this respect it is interesting to note how we — that is, those of us in mainstream traditions — tend to think about the loss of membership by mainstream churches and the growth of so - called conservative churcheIn this respect it is interesting to note how we — that is, those of us in mainstream traditions — tend to think about the loss of membership by mainstream churches and the growth of so - called conservative churchein mainstream traditions — tend to think about the loss of membership by mainstream churches and the growth of so - called conservative churches.

At the moment, there is in our population a sizable enough conservative subgroup, theologically and sociologically, to provide the basis for considerable growth by these churches.

The survey bears out that the caliber of leadership is a far more determinative factor in church growth than questions of liberal - versus - conservative positions, or social action versus personal - individual religious experience and expression.

Yet the dramatic growth in the 1970s of schools within «conservative» Protestant religious movements led to a narrower definition: a «Christian school» is one that's affiliated with one of the conservative Protestant denominations, such as Southern Baptist and Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, and, in general, with one of the dominant streams within conservative Protestantism — the evangelical, charismatic, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal religious movements.