Sentences with phrase «modern evangelicals»

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.

But then, moral consistency isn't much of a virtue among modern evangelicals.

With his explicit references to the Iraq War and climate change, Schrader is implicating modern evangelical Christianity for what he perceives as its lapses in moral leadership and co-opting by the conservative right.

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.

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

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.

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

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?»

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.

What strikes me most about modern Evangelical Christianity is how comfortable they are going to church and sipping their coffee, attending «rock» concerts, and wielding their political power.

But the greater trouble with these reduced ideas is that modern evangelical culture is so accustomed to this summation that it is difficult for us to see the Gospel as anything other than a list of true statements with which a person must agree.

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.

The dustjacket has Garry Wills saying that this is «an intelligent survey of modern evangelicals,» which is surely a blurb for another book.

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.

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

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»?

If Jesus» immediate followers were not instructed to fight for the political power to accomplish Jesus» goals, why is the modern evangelical movement so determined to take on that fight?

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

Why is it that the modern evangelical christian right act so un-christian.

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.

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

I call the presentation «The Contours of the Modern Evangelical Movement.»

I actually do a presentation when seeking 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.

I think this article is very well written, but I just don't understand how Santorum is the answer for young, modern evangelicals.

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

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.»

In regard to this article, the entire idea of Biblically defined marriage or family values is totally a modern evangelical phenomenon, and has no validity in the Holy Scriptures.

Modern Evangelicals might portray him as one of their own, but they would have been no more acceptable to him than were the Zwinglians and Anabaptists of his own day.

This attitude lends itself to the passivity and apathy within the modern evangelical church.

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.

Whatever the truth of what you say (ad I think you are correct), it is certainly true that the modern evangelical gospel, crusade or otherwise, is NOT the gospel Jesus preached.

Modern evangelicals are no longer the fundamentalists of the past, and increasing numbers among them are arguing for the addition of a «social gospel» to their previous individualistic emphasis.

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