Sentences with phrase «modern evangelical publcations»

The modern evangelical movement in America burst onto the public stage in the national election year of 1976.

It had never occurred to me how significantly the modern church — particularly the modern evangelical church — glorified and catered to extroversion, and how uncomfortable (even marginalized) introverts can feel in their own faith communities.

Then you have the more modern Evangelical places where you will see all different races and origins because they incorporate styles from all sides to please as many as possible.

The horrors of the Holocaust — which were occurring during the same years the modern evangelical movement was being born — also seared our conscience and deepened our sympathy for «God's chosen people.»

But, today's modern evangelical fundamentalists, going back to the days of Abraham Vereide founding of the religio - business - political cabal The Family / The Fellowship / C Street / National Prayer Breakfast, chooses to ignore Jesus» comments about his ministry and are bound and determined to have our government controlled by theocratic politicians who are passing laws to further their goal of turning this country into an theocracy.

I think modern evangelical Churches simply have systemic problems that can be traced all the way up the ladder to the seminaries.

I'm afraid that you're selectively quoted the Hebrew Scriptures to justify your modern evangelical theology.

Modern evangelical Protestantism has, because of its populist tendencies, shown paradoxical signs of strength and weakness.

The presentation is called «The Contours of the Modern Evangelical Movement.»

I actually do a presentation when I seek to explain the modern evangelical movement, particularly to movement leaders here in the United States or to missionaries who have been out of the country for a long time.

But whether it functioned as crisis conversion narratives function in modern Evangelical Protestantism is not a matter for debate.

In contrast, «the history of modern evangelical interpretation exhibits a strong degree of discomfort with the tensions and ambiguities of Scripture,» says Enns.

It was a relief to find a believer who wrote a reasonable explanation of the creation story that made more sense than I had ever read in modern evangelical publcations.

Do you think that, in criticizing certain expressions of the modern evangelical movement for being political / anti-intellectual, some of us have simply become (as Mike said in a comment at the end of my post) «total snobs»?

I don't like it when atheists want to secularize our culture and shut out any public mention of religion... But I also don't like it when modern evangelical fundamentalists are so ignorant of the Christian Church's teachings and traditions of two thousand years.

Do you think that modern evangelicals are salvation - focused rather than gospel - focused?

Nevermind just the rhetoric of war, I think there is a common refrain amongst modern evangelicals that «God is on our side, so who can stand against us?»

In fact, McKnight argues that modern evangelicals seem to have confused the words evangel (Greek for gospel) and soteria (Greek for salvation).

Modern evangelicals do need to «bridge the gap» and speak more plainly about their faith in terms that everyone can understand rather than assume that what they understand among themselves will be automatically understood by those who are not of their community when they speak to others about their faith.

The early modern evangelicals were possessed of a marvelous insight: that religion in their world was at last, and virtually for the first time in history, no longer to be passed through the genes.

Not exact matches

Evangelicals lack this clear tradition because, in part, they lack much of a tradition overall, being mostly a modern American movement that emerged out of several Protestant traditions.

Whether in evangelical, practical, or intellectual terms, the combination of the three systems in one — the democratic republic, a creative and dynamic economy, and an open, free, and pluralistic culture — has a proven modern record, surpassed by none, of raising up the poor.

As the discussion of the «Evangelicals and Catholics Together» document has made clear, the theological agenda of the Reformation remains of continuing importance to modern Christianity, particularly in the United States.

My hope is that as evangelicals move beyond the modern paradigm of individual autonomy (particularly as it applies to biblical interpretation), we will begin to appreciate church tradition as an undeniable foundation for our faith.

Converted to an evangelical brand of Christianity while studying Modern History at Oxford, Morris threw himself into the scriptures, was baptised in the Spirit and soon developed a teaching ministry.

A quarter of both evangelicals and black Protestants said they wouldn't mind if their church adjusted its traditional beliefs and practices, and a minority (8 % of evangelicals, 13 % of black Protestants) wanted their church to adopt modern beliefs and practices.

Are you not a product of your own modern biases as I am a product of fundamentalist - evangelical hermeneuitics?

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.

Holmes concludes the book by describing the beliefs of modern presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush, proving that since World War II the presidents have moved in a more orthodox and even evangelical direction, which seems ironic considering the assumed rise of secularity in America.

The educated modern man needs no reminder how It has been of the best to «just go along» with the evangelical and his beliefs rather than suffer the wrath that might be so ordained against him by those who have carved out their virtuous beliefs from an age old written scripture.

What is commonly called the «modern missionary movement» among the Protestants is the product of pietistic and evangelical movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

As cities boomed in late - nineteenth - century America, Evangelicals discovered innovative ways to meet the overwhelming challenge of modern cities.

Perceived victimhood, like modern American Evangelicals claims, is based on lies.

Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society, whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).

For many evangelicals, the Jewish people exited the stage of history after the destruction of the temple in a.d. 70 and only reemerged in the 1940s with the Holocaust and the birth of modern Israel.

Many evangelicals are beginning to grasp the fact, that certain ways of reading the Scriptures and certain doctrines about the Scriptures may actually become the means of oppression of modern women by the imposition of first century social patterns.

As long as evangelicals reject science, they are at odds with modern society and are on the road to extinction.

Fundamentalists and their more progressive evangelical descendants have repeatedly adapted successfully to the conditions and opportunities of modern life.

The result of making the unmediated connection between ancient Hebrews and modern Jews is that many evangelicals are accidental Zionists.

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.

Many evangelicals share with process thinkers resistance to the fragmentation of knowledge that characterizes the modern university and the world in general.

The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» worries that intellectually serious people have passed evangelicals by while we were allured by the sensations of revivalism, seduced by a materialistic market - driven culture, overtaken by the «disaster of fundamentalism» in the face of challenges from modern science and technology, and robbed of our universities through negligence and the inertia of secularized education.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

Despite the modern GOP - evangelical alliance, it was a Democrat who first tapped that power base in Iowa.

Here we raise the question of the precise relationship of evangelicalism and fundamentalism as historical phenomena, I do not mean here to give any credence to what I predict will be the common evangelical response to Barr — that he fails to distinguish appropriately a modern enlightened evangelicalism from a more benighted fundamentalism.

The blog is ABOUT belied in the modern world and is of great interest to those who consider the American evangelical community and certain other religious sects the source of some serious modern problems.

To the post-conservative evangelicals, liberalism and conservatism are both unfruitfully obsessed with «the modern mind.»

Michael Horton, professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in California, argues in Modern Reformation magazine that «evangelical Arminian» is not an option but an oxymoron.

James Davison Hunter's researches detected among some evangelicals a «shift... from the transcendent to the immanent,» a part of a larger tendency to conform to «the cognitive and normative assumptions of the modern world view.»

While this statement may be less true in some forms of evangelical worship, it is generally true of all modern church experience.