Sentences with phrase «made by the evangelical»

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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has backed a complaint made by the Evangelical Alliance (EA) and others about an image of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.

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He and his five siblings took turns waking at 5 a.m. to make breakfast before Bible readings and prayers led by their Evangelical Christian parents.

In 2010 Catholics made up 65 % of the population, as the numbers of evangelical Protestants and religiously unaffiliated Brazilians grew by large margins.

The quote attributed to Pope Gregory IX was made up by an evangelical protestant called Wayne Griffin.

I'll bet I can make Obama look like an evangelical by cherry - picking some of his quotes, particularly from the 2008 election.

It can only be met by a robustly evangelical Catholicism that proposes the gospel in a compelling and courageous way, and that insists that public authorities permit the Church the free space to be itself, make its gospel proposal, and offer the service of charity to others.

The ironic part of the «Christians being persecuted by evil» argument is that the Evangelical's that often make this claim are some of the most wicked and vile people that walk the face of the earth.

Rowe, a Duke Divinity School professor of New Testament who is not a Catholic, thus makes an important contribution to the evangelical Catholicism of the future by reinforcing the biblical foundations of the new evangelization.

First, our recent dive into parenthood has made me exceedingly glad we ditched the strict gender roles promoted by conservative evangelical culture in favor of a relationship characterized by mutuality and flexibility.

The Catholic destabilization following the Council was advanced by liberal and progressive forces in the Church, but it had the unexpected consequence of making Catholicism, in the view of evangelicals, less the monolithic threat that they feared.

Fueled by a professoriate that embraces the same leftist agenda as that of their colleagues in the secular academy, these Christian professors are making great strides in reorienting the political leanings of the coming generation of evangelical leaders.

• Hanging on the wall of an office here is a flyer, made up in the very earliest days of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, for Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Movie, a production distributed by Miramaximaculpa and rated PG - 65.

Probably a higher percentage of evangelicals than of Methodists generally consciously and intentionally make their personal decisions, day by day, on the basis of their faith.

«The assumptions often made are that Scripture should have no tensions and that any such tensions are not real but introduced from the outside, namely, by scholarship hostile to Christianity... It is a great irony that both the critical and evangelical options (as distinct from the Jewish model) take part in the same assumption: God's word and diversity at the level of factual content and theological messages are incompatible.»

Maybe it's just because I've lived in the Bible Belt my whole life, but when Smith writes that, among evangelicals, Jesus often gets «sidelined by the interest in defending every proposition and account as inerrant, universally applicable, contemporarily applicable, and so on in ways that try to make the faith «relevant» for everyday concerns,» I totally get it.

Unless, it appears, that includes a university - related club that represents the beliefs of evangelicals, who make up (measuring by belief) more than a third of the U.S. population.

Just as being an evangelical does not make Wesley entirely supportive of all contemporary evangelicals; so being a liberal certainly does not mean that Wesley would support everything that is said and done by contemporary religious liberals.

It is his opinion that we can best state the evangelical message and the evangelical demand in the idiom of contemporary existentialism, more particularly by use of the analysis of the human situation made in the writings of the German existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger.

To the collective gasps of their congregations, pastors are misrepresenting the study's findings by making claims like, «most Americans are universalists» or «a majority of evangelical Christians no longer believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life» or «most Christians think all paths lead to God.»

Most Likely to Make a Good Point About Tribalism: Fred Clark (Slactivist) with «What I mean by evangelical tribalism»

Kathleen Heasman says of evangelicals in the latter half of the 19th century: «By the mid-century it had become an accepted fact... that those who had experienced some spiritual renewal should straightway take part in the various efforts which were being made to help the less fortunate in the community.»

A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society by Rodney Clapages InterVarsity, 251 pages, $ 14.99 paper A prolific evangelical Protestant writer, Clapp proposes an understanding of «church as way of life» along lines made familiar by the work of Stanley Hauerwas.

Similar statements have been made by the Catholic gay group, Dignity; the Episcopal group, Integrity; the Methodist group, Affirmation; the Metropolitan Community Church; Evangelicals Concerned and others.

Grace is a powerful thing but to live a life of non-repentance only to use the «get out of jail free card» in one's dying breath is a twisted concept that has been theologically exploited by Evangelicals in order to «get the numbers up» and provide family members of those who have died with a warm feeling that their loved one made the right choice at the end.

They spoke of «the miseries which had entailed on them by the slave trade» and» the duty of making some recompense for the injuries and wrongs, which by our participation in that nefarious traffic, we had inflicted on Africa...» This position led evangelicals to argue that Britain's role in Africa should be that of guardian and protector of the people.

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.

Ted Haggard, the megachurch pastor and former National Association of Evangelicals chief whose career was undone by a 2006 gay prostitution and drugs scandal, is making a major announcement from his Colorado Springs home tomorrow.

Instead, they determined that they had made a theological error, having bought into the Primitive Baptist Movement, and that all they needed to do was to return to a more evangelical and evangelistic way of being Baptist, which they did by affiliating with the Southern Baptist Convention.

That makes evangelical Iowans unusually influential even by the standards of the national Republican Party, in which evangelical Christians have constituted the base since Ronald Reagan was elected president.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller — The book that is likely on the short list for 90 % of evangelicals my age, Donald Miller made me feel a little less crazy.

Pope Benedict made an apostolic visit to Great Britain that was cordial, positive, and well - received by the English press and people, during which he beatified John Henry Cardinal Newman, recognising him as one of the great Christian witnesses of our time, first as an Evangelical Anglican and then as a Catholic.

To help people make the case for a sound conclusion that has been clouded by passionate obfuscation, I recommend Stanley Grenz's new book, Welcoming but not Affirming: An Evangelical Response to Homosexuality (Westminster / John Knox, 210 pages,, $ 18

The reality of God, as understood by Evangelicals, is made plausible by particularly strong social support.

And I'm sure the evangelical Republicans love the fact that the party ticket is made up of a Morman and a Catholic and is being financed by a Jew (billionaire Adelson).

The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith Brazos, 234 pages, $ 22.99 How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety - Five Difficult Steps by Christian Smith Cascade, 205 pages, $ 24 Most of the time, Christian....

Best Analysis: Karl Giberson at The Huffington Post with «Why Evangelicals Are Fooled Into Accepting Pseudoscience» «The relentless assaults on the integrity of science by groups like the Discovery Institute have made it impossible for many people to understand the significance of a «scientific consensus.»

On the other hand, evangelicals who promote a warped view of American history in an effort to undo the court rulings on church - state affairs ignore a fundamental point made by Roger Williams more than 300 years ago: «No civil state or country can be truly called Christian, although the Christians be in it.»

Yet I often am made to feel condemned by others from more evangelical backgrounds, (although some of it is societal attitudes towards the condition, I have non-religious things who still see medication - free life as an aim), because I don't tend to assume... or necessarily even aspire to, ever be completely well in this lifetime.

He wants to see them do five things: «Initiate a focused approach to the claims of Islam; make a political and cultural analysis of the unique impact of the Islamic evangelization of black males; approach Islam on theological and evangelical levels; assess the geopolitical and strategic implications of Islam in Africa and South Asia, since the fortunes of black people in the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisons.

The «Evangelicals» in Indonesia begin to adopt practical comprehensive approaches, to make oral witness clearer, by visual demonstration of good services.

A similar enterprise at the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll, near Stuttgart, Germany, has made a significant start toward bridging the gap between the Church and the industrial worker by inviting representatives of the Trade Unions and Workers» Councils, including sometimes communists, to discuss the implications of Christianity, while on other occasions employers and Workers» Council leaders have met together for mutual discussion of the applications of the gospel to industry.

It's this kind of thinking and lack of a «gag - reflex» by a lot of you evangelical fundamentalists that make some of us want to tear our hair out with this utter non-sense.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

In the last two chapters, the authors make their concluding assessment: first in social and political terms by analyzing the positions of evangelicals and Catholics with regard to main themes in American history; second in more biblical and theological terms as they seek to answer the question they set themselves in their title.

There was no exit poll for Buchanan's strong showing in the 1996 Iowa caucuses, but by eyeballing his numbers in New Hampshire and making adjustments for the more evangelical and conservative turnout model for the caucuses, we can guess that Buchanan's Iowa support came largely from religious conservatives and pro-lifers.

Such evangelical slogans as «I made my decision for Christ» or «I have decided to follow Jesus» imply that it is my decision, my heroic act of will that is at the heart of my relationship to Christ, rather than my formation by the Body of Christ.

By contrast, his evangelical faith makes salvation individual and by no means inevitable; it comes in a blazing moment of faith and decision, when a lost soul accepts Jesus as personal savioBy contrast, his evangelical faith makes salvation individual and by no means inevitable; it comes in a blazing moment of faith and decision, when a lost soul accepts Jesus as personal savioby no means inevitable; it comes in a blazing moment of faith and decision, when a lost soul accepts Jesus as personal savior.

Evangelicals have borrowed tools for heuristic purposes and made the beginnings of a theological synthesis from storehouses other than the ones used by scholastic evangelicalism — Baconianism, Ramism, Scottish common sense realism.