Such an aspect of Christ's ministry is sorely missing from
most evangelical theology.
Not exact matches
Edward T. Oakes, S.J. is Professor of Systematic
Theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake, the seminary for the Archdiocese of Chicago, and author,
most recently, of Infinity Dwindled to Infancy: A Catholic and
Evangelical Christology (Eerdmans).
In fact one of the
most serious studies undertaken by all schools of
theology in the churches whether
evangelical or catholic is the relation between the one gospel and many cultures.
He does not believe that postliberal
theology is likely to speak increasingly in an
evangelical voice «unless you think that the
most determinative
evangelical voice among us today is that of John Paul II.»
If «church
theology» means the
theology expressed in the preaching and worship of
most Christian congregations in this country today, then a Gestalt of church
theology would be appropriate for conservative
evangelicals, but not for us.
For the remainder, such as
most of the new independent
evangelical churches, their distaste for liberation
theology and their understanding of the church's proper role in the public arena derive not from «an ideology of the national security state» but from sincerely held beliefs about
theology, politics, and economics.
In contrast to South Africa's vocal patrons of liberation
theology (who are largely confined to the intellectual class),
most evangelical independent and African indigenous churches eschew radical politics and the transformation of the Christian message into a political agenda.
I feel drawn to the phrase, the
theology of place, because it was so different than
most of what we had been taught in the
Evangelical Hero Complex.
There were frequent comparisons of the best in «evangelicalism» with what seems to them the worst in «ecumenism»... The
most frequent charges against us were theological liberalism, loss of
evangelical conviction, universalism in
theology, substitution of social action for evangelism, and the search for unity at the expense of biblical truth.
Most black churches in America espouse
evangelical theology, as do Korean and Taiwanese Presbyterian Churches, Hispanic Bible churches, and Pentecostal churches of all races and ethnicities.
As expected,
most very large churches are conservative in
theology, with 48 percent seeing themselves as
evangelical, another 25 percent as charismatic or Pentecostal.
While my point of reference historically and theologically is the early church,
most evangelicals make their historical and theological criterion in a much later time, say with the Reformation, with seventeenth - century orthodoxy, with Wesley, or with nineteenth - century Princetonian
theology.
Whatever the religion of those in the «middle ground» the place where we find
most Catholics, mainline Protestants, Jews and even many
evangelicals — they can not get by forever by arguing the
theology of «choice» and «rights,» while refusing to sharpen their understandings of «values» about «life.»
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