Sentences with phrase «in evangelical theology»

As the embodiment of sola gratia and sola fide, Mary should be highly extolled in evangelical theology and worship.

Here Enns highlights three issues that he believes have not been handled well in evangelical theology:

In the following chapters, I will chronicle this current impasse in evangelical theology.

He wrote in Evangelical Theology that, yes, the existing teachings deserve deference.

Not exact matches

While there has certainly been an increase in collaboration between evangelicals and Catholics in recent years, there has not been an attendant growth in understanding of the other tradition's actual theology.

«Jesus Christ's Church has universally rejected Mormonism's Anti-Trinitarian theology and its claim that mortals may become God,» David Shedlock, a contributor to the evangelical blog Caffeinated Thoughts, wrote in a post this month.

Further evidence for this hope is that Mormon participants in the Evangelical - Mormon dialogue which Mouw and Mormon theologian Robert Millet have led for fifteen years tell Mouw that the Snow couplet has no canonical status in Mormon theology.

Forms of exegesis or biblical interpretation that do not support the homiletic, evangelical, and educational missions of the Church may have their place in the academy, but they are subsets of religious studies, not theology.

LifeWay warns Miller's readers to exercise discernment because it believes his books to be inconsistent with historical evangelical theology in some way, yet instead of refusing to sell them, LifeWay chooses to profit from what it alleges to be heresy (ish).

Dr. Anthony McRoy, lecturer in Islamics at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology, told the «News Hour» why he doesn't believe the programme will have a significant impact on the issue and would like to see a new approach introducted, he said: «the last government tried something against radicalisation after 7/7, and look how ineffective it's been»

Because, well, is selective discernment in line with historical evangelical theology?

Wells describes the book as the continuation of an enterprise begun in 1989, which aimed to «explore the reasons for the decay of evangelical thinking, and not least in theology.»

Protestant evangelical failure to appreciate the Church's entire history, moreover, has resulted in the neglect of patristic and medieval writings laden with rich deposits for doing moral theology.

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.

His early religious outlook was colored by the evangelical Baptist faith of his parents and a Calvinist theology of predestination - the belief that the fate of all men and women had been predetermined by God, PBS.org said of Lincoln in its «God in America» series.

And it should not be so counterintuitive that young evangelicals such as myself prefer theology rooted in tradition to a spirituality waffling in relativism.

Over the years, I have observed the bulk of the Evangelical fleet drift — and then in desperation for some greater motivation, change fuels — from the open - arms gasoline of evangelism meetings, to the super-sparks of charismatic gifts, to the sluggish - diesel of homogenized Biblical theology, to the stuttering - and - sparkle fuel of Christian music, to the nitro - flamed - fuel of hating gays, and now to the turbo - charged hatred of illegal aliens at home and Muslims overseas.

I accept Christ 47 years ago and stayed in the Baptist — evangelical circle of influence until I went to a «community church» that had a heavy influence of Calvinest Reformed Theology.

, The Use of the Bible in Theology: Evangelical Options (John Knox 1984).

Having opined in public previously on the question of what makes evangelical theology evangelical, he reports a recent breakthrough in his own thinking: It's not so much a set of....

Because of this ambiguity we need to give some attention to the question of in what sense the Wesleyan way of using Scripture in theology represents an «evangelical option.»

Christianity Today's editor in chief considers what it means to be an evangelical Christian today, drawing on the movement's history, theology, and spirituality.

There are those of us who are evangelical perhaps in our theology still (I think I am but who can keep track these days of the master list we're supposed to be checking?)

22, Scholars Press, 1982); The Search for Salvation (InterVarsity Press, 1978); co-editor with Clark Pinnock, Toward a Theology for the Future (Creation House, 1977); co-editor with John D. Woodbridge, The Evangelicals: What They Believe, Who They Are, How They Are Changing (Abingdon, 1975); Revolution in Rome (InterVarsity Press, 1972).

Some evangelicals accept the ark legend as well, said Ralph Lee, an expert in Ge'ez and Ethiopic theology who has partnered extensively with the Orthodox.

What is called «bad theology» in evangelical America may not be the same bad theology of other parts of church America.

In evangelical circles he is best known as the author of The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Westminster Press, 1984) and as one of the two founding fathers of postliberal thought, the other being Hans FreIn evangelical circles he is best known as the author of The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Westminster Press, 1984) and as one of the two founding fathers of postliberal thought, the other being Hans Frein a Postliberal Age (Westminster Press, 1984) and as one of the two founding fathers of postliberal thought, the other being Hans Frei.

This person had no idea how much hell I've taken from people in my evangelical community for writing about my doubts, my questions related to heaven and hell, my views on biblical interpretation and theology, and my support for women in ministry and other marginalized people in the Church.

Evangelicals are nothing if not conversionist in their theology.

Perhaps in reaction to the «scandal of the evangelical mind,» evangelicalism of late has developed a general distrust of emotion when it comes to theology.

Perhaps the greatest difference in this form of evangelical theology and that of Wesley is a matter of emphasis.

The main contribution of the Emergent movement was to articulate progressive theology in a manner and to an audience that wouldn't otherwise hear it, primarily Evangelicals and youth.

And with this point, we are back once again to Packer's place in the Evangelical movement as a whole: How did such a committed Anglican, a Puritan in spirituality, and a Calvinist in theology, come to inspire the veneration of a kind of Evangelical popedom?

«But in the past several years, a new current has arisen in conservative evangelical thought: A small but significant number of theologians, psychologists, and other conservative Christians are beginning to develop moral arguments that it's possible to affirm same - sex relationships not in spite of orthodox theology, but within it.

It is clear then why the question of biblical authority is so important to evangelicals: belief in the infallibility of the Scriptures is the pillar which supports our theology - without it the edifice would surely crumble.

In earlier evangelical theologies content and form were identical; the content of biblical revelation was crystallized into doctrinal form and this doctrine, it was assumed, would be self - evident to reasonable people.

The latter, of course, is provided by the concrete situation which is being addressed, while the former is the biblical norm in accordance with which an evangelical theology shapes itself and before the God of which it stands accountable.

Once again: Considering the flaws and errors in the theology and history of all religions, all priests, rabbis, imams, preachers and evangelicals should be given «pink slips».

Donald W. Dayton is associate professor of historical theology at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Illinois, and chair of the steering committee of the evangelical theology section of the American Academy of Religion.

The rest of American Christianity, continuing its movement of convergence, would then become increasingly open to learn from the evangelicals: first, to re-examine the spiritual dynamics of individual rebirth in Christ, and later to strive for a more complete submission of theology to the mind of Christ expressed in Scripture.

To interpret the statement as a straightforward affirmation of Reformed commitments, as de Chirico does, smacks of the way Pentecostal and holiness churches were initially invited to join the National Association of Evangelicals for their numbers, not their theology, a history Molly Worthen has chronicled in her Apostles of Reason.

The shift in theology from mainline to Evangelical does not constitute a movement into heresy, even by Douthat's standards of orthodoxy.

When I use the word «Christian» in the article, I'm not talking about the young woman's theology, which is Bible - based and may be closer to the American evangelical than, say, the liberal Episcopalian pastor down the street!

In fact one of the most serious studies undertaken by all schools of theology in the churches whether evangelical or catholic is the relation between the one gospel and many cultureIn fact one of the most serious studies undertaken by all schools of theology in the churches whether evangelical or catholic is the relation between the one gospel and many culturein the churches whether evangelical or catholic is the relation between the one gospel and many cultures.

Fuller theologian Jack Rogers, for example, reports in Confessions of a Conservative Evangelical (Westminster, 1974) the shattering of his inherited view that his «orthodox theology» stood in «unbroken continuity with the theology of Warfield, the Westminster Confession, Calvin, Augustine, and Paul.»

I wondered why an indigenous Korean understanding of the impact of the gospel on the lives of ordinary people, i.e., a Korean evangelical theology, had been jettisoned in favour of a second - hand Western evangelical theology.

Young evangelicals have been overwhelmed to discover the extent of biblical material related to themes of social justice — material largely ignored in the theology and writings of their elders.

Similarly, Lindsell's historical analysis has some validity for the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, which took theological shape in a confessional reaction to the 19th century emergence of the «Evangelical United Front» — a reaction grounded in Lutheran scholasticism just as the Princeton theology was grounded in Reformed scholasticism.

The second view is articulated in The Catholicity of the Reformation, a series of lectures delivered in 1995 under the auspices of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology in Northfield, Minnesota.

Tidball notes that evangelicals are in the ascendancy even in the theology departments of secular universities.