Sentences with phrase «more conservative evangelicals»

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In recent months, those voters have consolidated their support behind another freshman senator, Texas» Ted Cruz, whose own belief and rhetoric more closely aligns with the state's conservative strain of evangelical Christianity.

«So at this point, traditional Mormons, evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics have more in common with one another politically than they do with the more liberal elements within their respective churches.»

The tendency of contemporary evangelicals to appeal to tradition to support conservative positions would be checked by Wesley's far more selective use of tradition, and much greater openness to current evidence.

But this is more because evangelicals have adopted a conservative stance than because of their evangelical heritage from Wesley.

When you look at the GOP or the more conservative Tea Party section of the American, of course evangelicals are going to hold a widely diverse group of opinions.

Having grown up in the conservative evangelical subculture that cast salvation as little more than a ticket out of hell that you cash in on Judgment Day, I've personally been enthralled and challenged by the emerging church's perspective on the Kingdom of God.

I grew up conservative evangelical but over the last few years have become a more progressive Christian.

A few courageous, high profile evangelical pastors will publicly assume a more loving and welcoming posture toward the gay community, drawing the wrath of conservatives but providing a glimmer of hope to gay Christians who long for the chance to worship alongside their brothers and sisters in Christ without fear.

I've seen this in my own life as my frustrations with the conservative evangelical culture in which I grew up cause me to dismiss its proponents with more anger and disdain than those of any other faith.

Three conservative evangelical groups within the Church of England are combining strengths to show unity... More

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

While it is difficult to draw exact parallels, this division between liberals and evangelicals affected Catholics and Jews as well, leading to a time when it was less important that you were Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish, and more important that you were conservative or liberal in your faith.

Conservative churches turn out to be indirectly ensuring the survival of liberal churches this way a proportion of their ordinands become more liberal and go on to pastor liberal congregations, or turn evangelical churches into liberal ones.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

«Barack Obama will unite conservatives and people of faith more so than any single Republican candidate can hope to do,» said Mat Staver, an evangelical Christian who leads the conservative legal group Liberty Counsel.

«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.

Most Helpful: Kathy Escobar with «8 ways those from more liberal - progressive and conservative - evangelical persuasions can better love each other»

George W. Bush won a third of the evangelical vote in Iowa in 2000, splitting that vote with Steve Forbes and more explicitly social conservative candidates like Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes.

Perhaps conservative evangelicals run the risk of being needlessly dogmatic on some issues, thereby alienating the next generation, while progressives are in danger of giving up so much historic doctrine that their faith is starting to look more like Campolo's humanism than historic Christianity.

The only demographics that broke for Trump more than white evangelicals were Republican men (90 %), Republican women (89 %), and conservatives (81 %).

For instance, more orthodox Evangelical and Mainline Protestants will have to learn to cooperate among themselves, as well as with traditionalist Catholics and Jews, and with other religious conservatives, such as Mormons.

At the same time, many old - style conservative evangelicals have warned that postliberal theology is but the latest manifestation of a deadly neo-orthodoxy, which is all the more pernicious for its seeming affinity with conservative aims.

I would even go so far as to say that any conservative evangelical who approves waterboarding or similar measures does so because he / she is more conservative than Christian.

(1) Evangelicals, the more conservative the more dumb... so easy to hoodwink..

Though you have to consider that Lutheran's have two synods: The Missouri Synod and Evangelical Church of America, one is very socially conservative and latter is growing more like the Lutheran Church in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany.

Third, in view of scattered signs among some evangelicals of an awakening concern about national and world problems, can all of us in churches — liberal as well as conservative, laity as well as clergy — have the grace to seize every opportunity for dialogue, to the end that we may begin to realize that behind our pluralism lies a God - inspired hunger for a better, more just world?

White Evangelicals are more conservative on abortion, homosexuality, and other so - called «family issues» than are most Americans.

There was no exit poll for Buchanan's strong showing in the 1996 Iowa caucuses, but by eyeballing his numbers in New Hampshire and making adjustments for the more evangelical and conservative turnout model for the caucuses, we can guess that Buchanan's Iowa support came largely from religious conservatives and pro-lifers.

In fact (and somewhat ironically), the missionary enthusiasm present in The Christian Message for the World — an enthusiasm engendered by liberal Christian expectations of the rapidly evolving «Kingdom of God» — is today represented more consistently by conservative and so - called «evangelical» Christians, who look to the twenty - first century in rather the same way the Liberals looked to the twentieth: as «The Christian Century.»

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

(24) The CBN organization in 1978 was drawing more than 55 percent of its partners from the conservative and evangelical denominations, even though as a group they formed a much smaller percentage of the general population.

We are a nation of more than just Christians, and certainly more than just conservative evangelical Christians.

My narrative is a bit more jarring, coming across to fellow liberated evangelicals as a throwback to our not - too - distant conservative past.

Removed from the conservative evangelical community, I began learning more about evolutionary theory.

The latter intervention looks to be the more important for precisely that reason: Davidson carries respect within the party whereas Sturgeon is a political enemy; being seen to respond to demands from the Scottish Conservative Party is easier than appearing to cave in to demands from a party that's made anti-Toryism an evangelical faith.

Of course, there has to be a lot more to the Huckster's rise than one email list: if he didn't walk the evangelical walk, people would see through his conservative talk just as fast as they do Romney's (whose positions are apparently held together with duct tape).

If you want to promote a book in the Christian marketplace, especially the evangelical end of things, it really helps to understand some key differences between the sub-groups such as the conservative PCA and SBC vs. more progressive groups like Red Letter Christians and Sojourners.

The group, which represents 45,000 churches and more than 60 evangelical denominations, took no action on a letter sent by 25 conservative Christian leaders demanding that the organization restrain its Washington policy director, the Rev. Richard Cizik, from putting forward his views on global warming.