Sentences with phrase «held by evangelicals»

Can not it at least be said that the soteriological beliefs of process thinkers in this category are much closer to the beliefs held by evangelicals than many realize?

But too often they direct their attack not at this great weakness of the church but at those who do have fervent beliefs leading to commitment and action, when these beliefs differ from the one's held by evangelicals.

Not exact matches

Oklahoma City - based Hobby Lobby is a closely held chain of craft stores, owned by an evangelical Christian family.

Roy S. Moore, who won a special Republican primary runoff for an Alabama Senate seat on Tuesday, is a staunch evangelical Christian, and his often - inflammatory political beliefs are informed by his strongly held religious views.

Formed by those who'd left the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, a mainline body, and who weren't quite so conservative as to join the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the NALC recently held its third annual convention, and a good time was had by all.

The first line says it all: «Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church.»

It is hardly the strongest bond between them, but evangelicals and Catholics are also drawn together by recognizing who holds them both in contempt.

I have discovered that the conservative evangelical church's viewpoint in the 1950's did not necessarily represent the viewpoint of other churches, nor the viewpoint held by the church over the previous two millennia.

Most Evangelicals also held back from ecumenical efforts represented by the World Council of Churches.

A new survey reports that «most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by... the councils of the early church.»

Gregg Singer reports that evangelical Christianity was held in much higher respect by the majority at the convention of 1787 than it had been in 1776, since so few of the 1776 «radicals» were there.

As a loose coalition of conservative Protestants, evangelicalism has always been a fragmented movement held together by a common mission, and by organizations such as the National Association of Evangelicals.

These efforts appear designed to break into the monopoly held by the independent evangelical organizations, and hold possibilities for restoring some representativeness to religious programming on television.

«I fear that evangelicals who wish lovingly, creatively, and entrepreneurially to establish relationships of positive witness with Muslims and others will be overly inhibited and held back by fear of fellow Christians and how they might react,» he wrote.

The other reason for schism was McIntyre's insistence on dispensationalist premillennialism, a distinctive form of prophetic teaching widely but not universally held by conservative evangelicals.

The Church is not held together by today's labels of «Evangelical» or «Christian» but is a priesthood of believers bound together by the presence of the Holy Spirit.

In keeping with the sentiment of the time, Schmucker held that the «fundamentals» were those enunciated by the Evangelical Alliance in 1846; see Evangelical Alliance.