Sentences with phrase «not evangelicalism»

It is this coalition that is dying a slow death, not evangelicalism or religious conservatism.

These are books that have shaped evangelicalism as we see it today — not an evangelicalism we wish and hope for.

During the past two decades an unlikely wave of liturgical enthusiasm has swept over American evangelicalism, but it is too early to tell whether or not evangelicalism, lacking any liturgical tradition of its own, has the resources to sustain a liturgical movement.

Not exact matches

So, is the Army not the responsibility of the federal government, and wouldn't their support for a faith specific event such as this (it doesn't even cater to all Christian groups, only the evangelicals) be seen as an endorsement of evangelicalism by the federal government?

While any fair - minded high - church reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.

Justin, Sam and Claire also discuss the front cover feature on Christians fighting the knife crime epidemic in London, whether evangelicalism can survive the era of Trump and what to do when God doesn't heal.

He's right that the growth of evangelicalism has likely hit a plateau and hasn't compensated for the decline of the mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic churches.

For there to be a scandal of the evangelical mind, there must not be just a mind, but also a readily identifiable thing called «evangelical» and a movement called «evangelicalism» — and the existence of such is increasingly in doubt.

Wells begins by positing two kinds of spirituality present within evangelicalism, distinguished in his view not so much by different doctrinal starting - points as differing priorities assigned to moral reasoning.

As David Gibson said in a classic essay, Assumed Evangelicalism: Some Reflections en route to Denying the Gospel, movements begin by proclaiming the gospel, pass through a phase of assuming it but not making it central, and end by rejecting and denying it.

But a win for evangelicalism as a movement does not translate into a win for every constituency in the movement.

Evangelicalism possesses no ecclesiology and that absence is the real issue, not the conflicts between its subdivisions.

More than ever, evangelical scholars should not abandon the identity as hopelessly marred by Trumpism, but, in the words of an evangelical theologian who did this well, revision evangelicalism and renew the center.

This form of evangelicalism is so distinct from classical Protestantism that the Germans, for example, would not describe it as evangelisch but would speak of Pietismus or the Christianity of the Erweckungsbewegung (the «awakening movement»).

Evangelicalism in general hides it sore spots very well with nice rhetoric — but they can't explain the dismal failure of the faith with regards to controlling «ego».

And it was evangelicalism that first told me that being a woman limited my potential, that science was not to be trusted, that democrats and gay people and Episcopalians were my enemies, that asking questions about these things was wrong.

It was evangelicalism that told me who I was and it was evangelicalism that told me who I wasn't.

Maybe evangelicalism as we understand it doesn't need our defense anymore: maybe we can open our fist, lay down our weapons for the movement or the ideology or the powerful, and simply walk away.

Opinion is deeply divided over many issues within UK evangelicalism - not least what state it is in.

While sexuality is indeed an important element of personhood, it is not he be-all and end - all of our existence, and as we've discussed in the past, connecting a person's worth to his or her virginity is a serious problem within evangelicalism.

Evangelicalism doesn't get our loyalty: that fidelity is for our Jesus.

For one thing, Wesley's liberalism was certainly not opposed to evangelicalism!

Though Balmer's book is not truly «A History of Evangelicalism,» it serves well as a reflection on some of evangelicalism'Evangelicalism,» it serves well as a reflection on some of evangelicalism'evangelicalism's main themes.

He doesn't want to push the «wisdom» within evangelicalism out of the way.

So, while it may be problematic to make too much of the distinction between Scripture and Christ, I think that evangelicalism will benefit from a reminder that our faith centers around the living person of Jesus Christ — the World Made Flesh — not on the sacred texts that point to him.

By contrast, conservative American evangelicalism seems to have replaced it with ecumenism by stealth or default — fronted by celebrities, driven by branding, and governed not by honest and open theological discussion but by back - room deals and the needs of maintaining market share.

The opportunity to confront privilege, bigotry and systemic racism is not exclusively a responsibility of the black church or the more liberal / urban wing of evangelicalism.

The clearest association I make, of course, is with the gender equality discussion within evangelicalism — not only because it's an issue near to my heart, but also because we are dealing with many of the same biblical texts.

If this faction mutes the premillennial debate, it has not yielded so readily on another movement that like evangelicalism and fundamentalism could easily be called «the religious phenomenon of the twentieth century» — Pentecostalism.

Evangelicalism was, at its heart, a movement, influenced not only by a strong emphasis on the authority of Scripture but also by a lively, impassioned, and deeply personal spirituality — an eclectic, ecumenical mix of elements from Pietism, Presbyterianism, Puritanism, and Pentecostalism.

If robust evangelicalism guaranteed continuing fidelity, the younger Schaeffer would not be writing odd books about his mother's sex life and describing his own spiritual life as an atheist who believes in God.

Some of the differences become theologically technical, with distinctions drawn not only between mainline and conservative churches, but also between different varieties of evangelicalism, fundamentalism, and pentecostalism.

Evangelicalism is not reducible solely to evangelism, although the media can be pardoned for concluding that such is the case.

This was very important in Gaebelein's case: he might not have been accepted as a leader within fundamentalist evangelicalism, nor become a famous Bible and prophecy conference speaker, if he had not changed his view.

There is no question that in much fundamentalism and evangelicalism, the Word of God is held captive to the parochialisms of this age, not to mention the personal eccentricities of domineering, authoritative preachers.

And what has happened, I think, to many evangelicals is they've lifted up Donald Trump above Jesus... don't think that Donald Trump has changed evangelicalism, but I do think he's revealed it.

Not of the generation or geography to have been able to understand «spirituality or evangelicalism,» he liked religious sentiment that was finely and equably expressed.

The current mushrooming of churches and proliferation of Evangelicalism and Pentecostal spiritualities are not healthy phenomena but the results of desperation, disasters, hunger, disease and ignorance.

Though he's not as well known as some other evangelists of his era, the legacy of Smith Wigglesworth has had a major influence on modern Evangelicalism.

Of the seven evangelical Protestant authors (e.g., Francis Schaeffer, Cornelius Van Til, Harold Lindsell, A. W. Tozier), it is fair to say that none of them would be named, and most of them would not be known, outside the world of evangelicalism.

... Santorum is measuring all Catholics again't every other religion... He deosn't like Omama's Rev Wright and the Baptist religion - He doesn't like the following; Lutherism, Anglicans, Fundamentatlism Christiamity, Pietism, Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Holiness movement, Greek Eastern Orthodox, Protestantism, Arryrism Church, and many move.

Yet most of those same observers, when pressed for an opinion as to where the vital juices are flowing in contemporary American religion, will call our attention not only to born - again conservative evangelicalism, but also to movements and tendencies that stand in a direct line of succession to the liberal traditions.

While such historical ignorance is inexcusable (if not uncommon among Americans), it has had the salutatory effect of keeping evangelicalism free, by and large, from the taint of anti-Semitism.

Because a phrase like «totalitarian evangelicalism» has a frightening ring to it, I will distinguish it from those «goods» and «partial goods» — which have some justification in the facts of life and human nature — by explaining what I do not mean by it.

Jacob's Well reveals the theological and ecclesial fissures not only in evangelicalism, but in Emergent itself.

Colin, You are not describing Catholic theology, more like fundamentalst evangelicalism.

I don't see this development as a sign that evangelicalism as a whole is on the decline (we seem to be holding strong with a decades - long 20 - to - 25 percent of the population), but I do believe it provides us with the opportunity to revise the way we think about political engagement and ready ourselves for a future of similar electoral choices.

I can't think of any other nonevangelical commentator on American religion who knows as much about evangelicalism as Marty does.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

I'm confused; I thought evangelicalism was all about a personal relationship with Jesus, not the Bible.