Sentences with phrase «more nondenominational»

The future is less mainline denominations or flat evangelical denominations, and more nondenominational evangelical networks.

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More significant in the long run, however, may be the second way evangelicals have been reacting, through the support of nondenominational parachurch organizations engaged in overseas mission.

Yet as a result of this period of strife, the editor and his journal both emerged stronger and more certainly headed toward the magazine s eventual transformation into a nondenominational publication.

It was the explicit belief and claim of each of these presidents, as it had been of White and Gilman at Cornell and Johns Hopkins — and as it would be of Kirkland at Vanderbilt — that the absence of ecclesiastical governance rendered their universities and colleges nondenominational but Christian: indeed, they were freed to be more authentically (and surely more wisely) Christian than before.

Though, I'll also provide you references by two German theologians, Rudolf Bultmann, who was a Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg, and Uta Ranke - Heinemann, who holds the (nondenominational) chair of History of Religion at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Essen, since, perhaps, you might be more willing to consider material written by Christian theologians.

As compared with twenty years ago when religious interest was more largely funneled through nondenominational agencies, the churches are more active in making contacts with students and among a virile minority are securing a better response.

A host of more recent independent associations, charismatic fellowships and nondenominational megachurches also draw inspiration from versions of the Azusa Street narrative.

Its welcoming calm and nondenominational culture are in stark contrast to the emotional debate over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from ground zero in New York City, where planes flown by al Qaeda hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, killing more than 2,700 people.

Each Sunday we were lulled into a nondenominational oblivion by the church's soporific organ music, and it was here, in the light - filled, stained - glass chapel of the Westminister Presbyterian Church, that I discovered something far more commanding than the gist of any sermon.

Lawrence Rinder, the curator, could hardly display more tolerance, short of replacing the exhibition catalog with a call to nondenominational prayer.