Sentences with phrase «new evangelical movement»

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This message of the new birth through Christ has been the hallmark of the evangelical movement since at least the time of Whitefield.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

A new movement of evangelical nonviolence must anticipate the same temptation.

Finally, it is very very evangelical movement, so it requires a large school of apologetics many of which, like any religion in with new converts are highly zealous and incredibly hostile towards anything outside of the boarders of their particular brand of faith.

Evangelicals for Social Action, a group that has struggled for traction and identity since it framed the Thanksgiving Declaration of 1973, has regathered its strength around a new board of directors representing many sectors of the evangelical movement.

Is there a need for new theological and spiritual awakening among the multiplied tribes of the evangelical movement?

Evangelical speaker Dave Hunt, coauthor of the evangelical potboiler The Seduction of Christianity, has even tried to link the movement to New AgeEvangelical speaker Dave Hunt, coauthor of the evangelical potboiler The Seduction of Christianity, has even tried to link the movement to New Ageevangelical potboiler The Seduction of Christianity, has even tried to link the movement to New Age phenomena.

A new mood, if not movement, in North American evangelical theology can be described as «postconservative.»

Postconservative evangelical theology is a movement in its infancy — crawling aand groping toward a new model of evangelical thinking.

The movement toward the independence of the church may lead to the development of a new missionary or evangelical movement, to the rise of an effective international Christianity, to the union of the divided parts of the church of Christ, and to the realization in civilization of the unity and peace of the saved children of one God.

The Evangelicals who spoke of sin in personal rather than in structural terms, and put great stress on personal conversions and growth in holiness, were very much upset by this new emphasis within the ecumenical movement on mission as humanization.

It is the evangelicals who drive the most popular and productive «new movements» in Protestantism like the Alpha Course and New Winew movements» in Protestantism like the Alpha Course and New WiNew Wine.

There are some couples who do think with the mind of the Church, but they are highly likely to be people who have been catechised and spiritually formed through one of the new movements or evangelical communities.

If those of us who are evangelicals did that with an unconditional readiness to change whatever did not correspond with the scriptural revelation of God's special concern for the poor and oppressed, we would unleash a new movement of biblical social concern that would change the course of modern history.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

What if evangelicals today, instead of focusing on «evangelizing» and «converting» people, were to begin to think of Jesus not as starting a new religion, but as the central figure of a movement that transcends religious distinctions and identities?

Rhonda Kelley, co-editor of the New Evangelical Women's Commentary, said this of young Christian women today: «Not only do they not have a framework, but in many situations our women students have been raised by mothers who were a product of the feminist movement.

Today some of our children, whom we have fed pablum in our liberal churches, are finding new life in evangelical and Pentecostal movements.

As a nonbeliever, there was a bit of a struggle over including covenant marriages — a type of marriage born out of the conservative evangelical movement that makes marriage harder to get into and out of — into The New I Do.

A scholarship tax credit appeals to a diverse coalition of supporters: economically disadvantaged, working - class, and middle - class voters; African American and Hispanic clergy and parents; urban Catholics, Orthodox Jews, and evangelical voters; and a large swath of the labor - union movement (a scholarship tax credit proposal in New York is supported by 30 labor unions).

But it was her job as religion editor that remained constant during her tenure at the paper, which coincided with the rise of feminism, gay rights, the Evangelical Right, the social justice movement, the spread of Buddhism, Hinduism, and New Age groups, and other issues that had a significant impact on religion in America.

Graphics and propaganda from secret societies, evangelical and fundamentalist movements, new - age spiritualists, Scientologists, Freemasons, ultraconservatives and all kinds of conspirators; encyclopedias for children and even Dr. Netter's famous medical illustrations — with The Hidden World, Los Angeles — based artist Jim Shaw (born 1952) exhibits the incredible collection of didactic graphic art that is the main source of inspiration for his diversely informed art.