Sentences with phrase «many evangelical communities»

Along with the many honors he received from the evangelical community and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Graham received the $ 1 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1982 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1996.

Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world, boasts a huge evangelical community that has grown ninefold since 1970, during which time the country's population has doubled.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

Not the least of the concerns raised by Wells» critique is the conspicuous absence of moral fiber in the Church» notably in the evangelical community.

Perhaps the greatest impact of the Lausanne Congress has been its symbolic importance to the evangelical community.

Barton had written off other critics as «liberal elites,» but this was a searing attack from within the evangelical community.

What evangelical would want to be associated with someone who smoked heavily, drank copious quantities of beer, and held views on the Bible, the Atonement, and purgatory which were out of place in the evangelical community of that age?

I'm not sure what the evangelical community can do about that.

It's a bold question that hasn't really hasn't been a part of the public conversation in recent times in evangelical communities.

«Julie Ingersoll, a professor at the University of North Florida who studies evangelical communities, said mental isolation is key to abuse, and websites telling the stories of abuse survivors «completely undermine the power of abusers to convince their victims that it's their fault and that they're all alone.

It is often challenging to fully report on stories of sexual harassment or sexism in evangelical communities because records are sealed and because individual allegations are dismissed by people in power, Ingersoll says.

And, historically, the evangelical community has taken several steps back from public schools over the last few decades — particularly since prayer was removed from schools.

Just knowing the size, the cultural prominence, and the public influence of the evangelical community, I was particularly interested in what the emergence of the ECI and other creation...

It was because we were advocating for other victims of sexual assault within the evangelical community, crimes which had been perpetrated by people in the church and whose abuse had been enabled, very clearly, by prominent leaders in the evangelical community.

So when the Rhodes Scholar began studying for a Ph.D. in environmental studies at Oxford University, she paired the two to study the evangelical community's discussions of climate change.

Driscoll's comments rightfully drew some fire and I believe he eventually apologized, but I fear that the sentiment behind these remarks — that the Bible holds women to a certain standard of beauty that must be maintained throughout all seasons of life — remains pervasive within certain sectors of the conservative evangelical community.

Although Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of this novel in the 1980s drew the full brunt of scorn from the evangelical community, who were scandalized at the idea that Jesus was actually tempted, the basic story is a stunningly - written and imaginative exploration of the idea of that Jesus was «tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.»

IMO, what makes this particular situation so brilliant for examination is that there is destruction in both forks of the emergent movement, which was itself a response to destructiveness inside the Evangelical community.

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.

She challenges evangelical communities to consider how to honor their theological principles associated with gender, sexuality, and marriage while minimizing the negative impact of purity culture.

Usually, my first reaction to these kinds of messages is to get defensive and frustrated by the fact that critical thinking, compassion, and honesty are so often presented as liabilities to faith within the conservative evangelical community.

Either the folks at Zondervan are having a collective faith crisis, or the evangelical community is finally opening up about doubt.

The evangelical community, too, has been involved in some collective soul - searching.

We bank to the left and pass over the offices of The Independent, an alternative free weekly newspaper that has been critical of the evangelical community.

Until this point, virtually no one within the evangelical community was even discussing the sanctity of human life, let alone defending it.

Leroy Barber, Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh, has been a leader within the evangelical community for over three decades.

In the evangelical community, his influence was possibly only second, albeit a very distant second, to that of C. S. Lewis.

I think that in this way, the emerging church is seeking to correct what has been a bit of an over-emphasis on apologetics and doctrine within the conservative evangelical community in recent years.

They believe that Christian R&D groups have a responsibility not only to inform the evangelical community of the extent of Third World needs but also to persuade them that «they [are] very much part of the problem.»

I can not overstate the fact that the evangelical community... indeed the Christian community... is losing young people every day to a false dichotomy.

Do you think the evangelical community has a narrow view of what «American» is?

I worry that the evangelical community has a narrow understanding of what an «American» is.

The evangelical community seeks to leap from piety to practice with little reflection on guiding principles and practical goals.

How can Southern Baptists with their strong Landmark suspicions relate to the wider evangelical community?

Sojourners and its editor, Jim Wallis, are highly respected in certain sectors of the evangelical community.

The evangelical community, to paraphrase social critic Michael Novak, seeks to leap from piety to practice with little reflection on guiding principles and practical goals.

One early position, which still continues to be important in the evangelical community, is to affirm that the Bible, when correctly interpreted, affirms women's full humanity.

This problem is particularly acute in the evangelical community.

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

But evangelicals don't like anyone who is different, and people who want reasonable and prudent gun control are different than those in evangelical communities / bubbles.

What I hope does not happen is a further fragmentation of the evangelical community as a result of its new minority position in American politics.

This book is a plea on two fronts: First, for an irenic and loving spirit within the evangelical community as controversies are debated.

Although Biblical «infallibility» thus seems the better of the two options, as even Pinnock's most recent statements imply, the term is not without its problems within and outside the evangelical community.59 Given the history of controversy over inspiration, to say that Scripture is «infallible» seems to many evangelicals a watered - down statement, one sidestepping Biblical truth.

Again, the important task of adjudicating differences of opinion on other theological issues within the evangelical community is being largely preempted (recent meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society, for example, have often become one - topic convocations).

Too often, in that section of the evangelical community which stems from American revivalism and fundamentalism, discussion of social ethics passes over this foundational matter altogether, discussing instead only specific procedures.

According to Mark DeMoss, Romney's adviser to the evangelical community, such lines are designed to create a contrast with a Democratic Party that had to fight to get God into its platform at its recent convention.

Seen in this light, the differing formulations of social ethics within the evangelical community are highly predictable, as predictable as the clashing once was between Richard Nixon and Pat Brown.

The statement, which sought to summarize the beliefs of the evangelical community, affirmed Scripture's «inspiration, truthfulness and authority.»

In the concluding chapter we will look at the nature of theological construction in light of the issues presently surfacing in the evangelical community.

«23 Pinnock is suggesting that elements of the evangelical community are presently confusing Biblical truth with certain traditional interpretations of the Biblical record which they accept.