I think that most modern American
Evangelical readers, attempting to read Lutheran confessional documents by himself or herself, will usually get lost more quickly, and give up sooner, than when reading the analogous Calvinist confessional texts.
Indeed, the attention Smith and Dayton have received from
evangelical readers suggests that the tide has turned once again.
Berlinerblau's imprecision with respect to these evangelical shibboleths might well lead
an evangelical reader to treat lightly a critique that demands serious attention from those who claim as their authority the Bible and the Bible alone.
Even after I invited several black and gay Christians to the blog to explain just how hurtful the «I Stand With Phil» movement was to them, many
evangelical readers brushed it off as no big deal.
Baker Publishing Group publishes high - quality writings that represent historic Christianity and serve the diverse interests and concerns of
evangelical readers.
Not exact matches
Our
readers need to be more
EVANGELICAL, for one thing.
While any fair - minded high - church
reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of
evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.
Early Friday morning, Catholic blogger and new media guru Brandon Vogt took the text of the papal encyclical Lumen Fidei from the Vatican website where it is available free online, and reformatted it for various
readers like Kindle, Nook, and iPad, thinking that it would be a good and
evangelical....
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.
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).
As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most
readers in the dominant
Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.
Armed with the latest surveys, along with personal testimonies from friends and
readers, I explain how young adults perceive
evangelical Christianity to be too political, too exclusive, old - fashioned, unconcerned with social justice and hostile to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Readers shared their views, some said that they believe «
evangelical feminism» is a contradiction:
Biblicism falls apart, Smith says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned
readers — including many
evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it, says and teaches very different things about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»
Shedd and his
readers could hardly have foreseen the impending explosion of Christian diet literature into a multimillion - dollar industry, one that rode the back of the American diet craze and capitalized on it by creating a message specially geared to the
evangelical multitudes.
Readers of theologian Mary Louise Bringle and church historian Roberta Bondi, both of whom have written moving accounts of their struggles with food, recognize that eating compulsions of every variety bedevil liberal Christians no less than their
evangelical sisters and brothers.
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.
To many
readers such language will sound impossibly antiquated, but that is because they have not paid respectful attention to what many
evangelical Christians believe, and believe deeply.
At least one survey has shown that only half of the series»
readers can be called
evangelicals.
While the
reader may wonder how effectively the book will serve to dispel the stereotypical view of American evangelicalism, at the very least it illustrates the diversity of the movement and so should serve to calm those who worry that
evangelicals stand poised to reconquer American culture.
Although many
readers will be put off by her
evangelical jargon — and I admit to some bewilderment at it — I found her language reassuring in its emphasis on the family as something more than the nemesis of self - actualized women.
I surmise from the comments posted that many CNN
readers believe
Evangelicals are ignorant and awful people.
Having recognized both the diversity and the commonality of
evangelical theological hermeneutics - that is, both its freedom and its rootedness - it will be helpful to
readers of this collection of essays if we return to ask with greater care concerning the nature of
evangelical theology's diversity.
For the benefit of other
readers: reference for my quote in Austin's top post — google and research
evangelical Scott Lively, Uganda, Pope Benedict & Anglican bishops regarding events for the past seven years resulting in hysteria and crimes against humanity there.
In the «70s Christianity Today appealed more to lay
readers and moved noticeably toward
evangelical independency.
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.
Many
readers, including
evangelicals, will be surprised to discover where «
evangelical Christianity» has been and may be going.
As
readers of
Evangelical Catholicism, my book on deep reform in the 21st - century Church, will remember, I proposed just such a change in the orientation of celebrant and congregation during the Liturgy of the Eucharist: Priest and people would face each other during the Liturgy of the Word; celebrant and congregation would then pray together, facing the same direction, throughout the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
Longtime
readers know that I am an
Evangelical Christian, and worse yet, a Calvinist (or, Reformed).
As Richard Dorment says in his review: «The phenomenon started in 1840 when John Ruskin, who was raised in the
evangelical church, told
readers of Modern Painters that Turner's pictures should be read as moral allegories — to which Turner replied that the critic «sees more in my pictures than I ever painted.»