Sentences with phrase «many evangelical writers»

The reader is left puzzled as to why this sad, dishonest, and frequently vicious book is recommended by evangelical writers Lewis Smedes and Phil Yancey.

Among other things, it makes that evangelical writer, that Catholic bishop, and that Gettysburg professor think that, as believers, they are fighting a rear guard action.

Given the fundamentalist personal background of many young evangelical writers, this unconscious hangover of biblicism is not too surprising.

In another book by the same title, evangelical writer Rus Walton arrived at the conclusion that even the U.S. Constitution had been «divinely inspired.»

Although Biblical authority is asserted as a hallmark of the movement, it is daily called into question by the independent and contradictory theological opinions which are being given dogmatic status by evangelical writers.

A number of evangelical writers have followed Lewis in his vision of a Purgatory of purification.

Now, I completely agree that among evangelical writers, pastors, and speakers, the «emerging church» as a cohesive movement is clearly a thing of the past.

Most Insightful: Jeff Cook (at Jesus Creed) with «Rob Bell and C.S. Lewis» «There's not one controversial idea in Love Wins that is not clearly voiced as a real possibility by the most popular evangelical writer of the last century, CS Lewis.»

As the Evangelical writer Peter Ould has noted, the priority ought not to be changing one's «sexual orientation», something which has been shown to be of somewhat limited use, but changing the orientation of oneself towards prayer, holiness and godliness.

«Instead of cowering in fear over the imagined threat of an Islamic immigration invasion, the church can play the critical role in loving Muslim immigrants and helping them integrate into a very strange culture,» suggested evangelical writer Alan Noble.

Evangelical writer Phillip Yancey elucidates this problem with a case he encountered while serving as a telephone counselor at PTL; at the time, he was doing research on the organization for an article.

Wide Open Spaces Jim Palmer With Divine Nobodies, emerging church leader Palmer touched a nerve with readers who gravitate toward cutting - edge evangelical writers like Brian McLaren and Donald Miller.

Description: Charles Bridges, one of the outstanding evangelical writers in the Church of England in the last century, issued his Exposition of Psalm 119 in 1827 when he was thirty - three years of age.

Not exact matches

degenerates to: «pervert alert» or»...» and many other names, but of course I prefer to refer to this pathetic h0mophobe as the disgruntled ex Evangelical Fortune Cookie Co. «writer».

Editor's note: Robert Knight is a senior writer for the evangelical Coral Ridge Ministries and a senior fellow for the conservative American Civil Rights Union.

As an atheist, I prefer Catholicism to evangelical / fundamentalism, the Catholic church while having some rough spots with science, arts, and literature in the past has made strong efforts to co-exist with the science / educated community (they were some of the best scientists, writers, artists, etc).

Brannon Howse, a conservative writer and founder of Worldview Weekend, which organizes Christian conferences, criticized evangelical participation in that event in a column this week.

• In a somewhat hostile article on Pope Benedict in the influential German weekly Der Spiegel» roughly the German equivalent of Time, if Time were written about four grades higher» the writer speaks of the Evangelical Christians in Latin America «multiplying there like the loaves and fishes in Canaan.»

We await the publication of his novels with almost evangelical zeal, eager to be entertained and edified by him as by no other contemporary American writer.

Evangelicals who are receptive to and seek to appropriate the work of such writers as Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and others also direct theological reflection in the same tidal movements as postliberalism.

Wheaton administrators spent several months preparing for a 2006 visit from Soulforce, a group aiming to change religious leaders» minds on gay issues that was co-founded by Mel White, who was a ghost writer for some evangelical leaders, including Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell.

According to the writer, if Obama is elected president, evangelicals can expect «hardship,» «persecution,» and «suffering» in the years to come... not to mention an inevitable surge in terrorist attacks, vandalism at Christian bookstores, and the demise of Boy Scouts of America.

degenerates to: and many other names, but of course it's the disgruntled ex Evangelical Fortune Cookie Co. «writer».

How can the writer believe that he and his fellow evangelicals should worry less about whether gays can marry or not and more about keeping their own traditional marriage in tact — 33 % divorce rate — yet claim Santorum shows well - placed compassion?

For many years, I felt that part of my call as a writer and blogger of faith was to be a different sort of evangelical, to advocate for things like gender equality, respect for LGBT people, and acceptance of science and biblical scholarship within my community.

I simply do not understand how this writer can rightly denigrate Perry and Bachmann as pandering demagogues while supporting Santorum as a true evangelical.

In addition to the substance lacking in so many books of an evangelical nature, these writers have brought to their works the voice so often lacking in traditional religious books.

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.

Many of the current «young evangelical» writers grew up in the «60s, and could not resist the perceived cogency of certain cultural trends — for instance, racial and sexual equality, or nonviolence.

A writer from the New Republic asked if I agreed with an article he was doing which claimed that the Bob Jones incident would break up the convergence between Catholics and evangelical Protestants represented by «Evangelicals and Catholics Together.»

It must be «truth be told» (more like Turrets be Told); the disgruntled Evangelical Fortune Cookie Co. writer's boot camp flunkie.

New York Times writer and avowed agnostic Nicholas Kristof has written about how Christians — in particular, evangelicals — are consistently the first to arrive, the last to leave and the most generous whenever he covers poverty, disaster, disease or other horrific events.

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.

And then there's the Reformation 21 website, run by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and featuring our friend and writer Carl Trueman.

Wait a minute — do we have another «writer», per chance, that was let go from the Evangelical Fortune Cookie Co.?

No juan — when «writers» get let go from the Evangelical Fortune Cookie Co., they just can't give it up.

The women's ministry leader was responding to the wave of Christian reactions to news that LifeWay Christian Stores had stopped selling books by Hatmaker — one of the biggest writers and speakers among today's generation of evangelical women — after she spoke out in support of same - sex marriage.

As for Jefferson, Whitehead says he shared a high view of Christianity, which his statement evidences: «I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just,» The writer concludes that to call them «true deists is as erroneous as to call Karl Barth an evangelical Christian» (The Separation Illusion [Mott Media, 1977], pp. 20 - 21).

Friend to both Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle, Irving served as an evangelical conduit to many of the same Romantic ideas Nevin received through German writers.

was pitched to an evangelical audience, it would go like this: Academy Award nominee Darren Aronofsky, the brilliant writer - director who gave us The Fighter, Black Swan and The...

Along with a plethora of pop stars, activists, writers, celebrities and politicians, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, the scientific adviser to the Evangelical Environmental Network and director of the Climate Science Center...

The general public rhapsodizes about «spirituality» while evangelical Protestant writers wax enthusiastic about «theism,» as though Christianity is one of many species of a genus, all with interchangeable parts.

From RHE: Scot, you're one of those writers / theologians / biblical scholars that keeps me in the evangelical conversation.

Since similar estimates have been employed by various writers for at least fifteen years, it is obvious that no one is actually counting; that no one knows how many are involved; and that growth, if it is occurring at all, is not nearly so rapid as the growth of evangelical Christian communities, which seem to be expanding by hundreds of thousands every few years.

At its most virulent, this line naturally ends in something like the financial writer Andrew Tobias, who recently used his column to assert the identity of evangelical Christians and the Taliban» both standing in sharp contrast to peaceful Islam.

degenerates to: «pervert alert» or»...» and many other names, but of course I prefer to refer to this ho mophobe as the disgruntled ex Evangelical Fortune Cookie Co. «writer».

Could it be because it was «written» by a disgruntled ex Evangelical Fortune Cookie Co. «writer»?

There are atheists, liberals, real evangelicals and false ones, and Christians... and there are women, educated people and uneducated people, writers and non-writers, real evangelicals or Christians and the rest are just plain atheist, liberals or closet liberals or crypto - liberals, etcetera.

I've asked our writers — Timothy George, Thomas Guarino, and Carl Trueman — to offer a fresh retrospect over the intervening years, to take stock of the ecumenical situation as it involves both Evangelical and Catholic communities, and to reflect on its development up to the present day.

But I was totally drawn in by writer Mara Strom Sachs's candid account of how she and her husband (both Modern Orthodox Jews) followed the financial advice of Evangelical Christian Dave Ramsey to pull themselves out of a very hairy financial situation, and how she now manages to keep her family well - fed while staying frugal.