Sentences with phrase «of evangelical movement»

Though some social commentators questioned the public's perception of the size of the evangelical movement and the validity of some of the measures used, few of them could match the status granted the movement by the general media as a whole.

The biggest accomplishment of the Evangelical movement has been convincing millions of people that selfishness, greed, hate, and war are Christian virtues.

And not just in the fundamentalist parts of the evangelical movement.

I was part of the evangelical movement for over 12 years, and after hearing the continuous bombardment of hate preached against anyone not submitted to their leaders, stepped away to become a believer in Christ, who came to save not condemn.

The modern missionary movement of the 18th and 19th centuries flowed in a direct powerful way out of this evangelical movement.

If anything, Trump's candidacy is revealing the inner secularization of the evangelical movement, where evangelical no longer means something many would recognize as properly Christian, Westminster Seminary — California professor Michael Horton wrote for CT..

It's all an outcome of the evangelical movement that has created a kind of sub-culture, and view main - line Protestants and Catholics as non-Christian.

I still love the beauty of ritual, especially because I have been deprived of such beauty, being part of the evangelical movement...

Like the rest of the evangelical movement the last 30 + years, this is all fake Christianity.

Creationism has not been the dominant belief in American Christianity for many years until the rise of the Evangelical movement.

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

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.

Then there is J. I. Packer — less widely known than either Stott or Graham and yet one of the Evangelical movement's most venerated and beloved leaders.

F. F. Bruce a hero of the evangelical movement, a non biased author if ever there was one (sarcasm).

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

Not exact matches

Complicating matters further is Osteen's association with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life as well as the next.

Evangelicals lack this clear tradition because, in part, they lack much of a tradition overall, being mostly a modern American movement that emerged out of several Protestant traditions.

Twenge and Campbell correctly lay much of the blame for the epidemic at the feet of the self - esteem movement, which has been enormously influential, not only in the spheres of popular psychology and education, but also as a central tenet of the «gospel of success» message heard in many evangelical megachurches.

In light of the last few weeks, the American conservative evangelical movement as a whole has been exposed as theologically thin in its doctrine and historically eccentric in its priorities.

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.

There continues to be an eager media narrative that evangelicals are at the heart of the Trump movement, and the high profile support of notable evangelicals like Ben Carson, and Jerry Falwell Jr. only contribute to this perspective.

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.

And white evangelical Protestants, the base of the Christian Right, are roughly five times more likely to agree with the Tea Party movement than to disagree with it, according to a Pew survey analysis released earlier this year.

She reflects the vague aspirations of the «Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestine» movement among mostly left - of - center evangelicals.

Olson knows very well how difficult it is to maintain the coherence of the movement when evangelical pastors and scholars so love a good debate.

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.

Only a movement of evangelical nonviolence is adequate for that task.

But in 1974 at the second national workshop of Evangelicals for Social Action, one proposal that was endorsed as a valid way to implement the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern called for a movement of evangelical, nonviolent dirEvangelical Social Concern called for a movement of evangelical, nonviolent direvangelical, nonviolent direct action.

Whatever else may be held in common throughout this increasingly diverse movement, the unity of evangelicals is their common goal of evangelizing the world for Christ.

Evangelicals continue to move into the Catholic and Orthodox churches, but this remains a minority movement, consisting largely of high - profile converts and university students exposed to those theological traditions.

A movement of evangelical nonviolence would immerse its direct action in prayer.

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

At 51, I remember the hippie Jesus freaks of the 70s when the Evangelical movement took off, which has a whole lot more in common with millenials» views than the current crop of Evangelical Pharisees.

I dream of a movement of evangelical, nonviolent direct action that will dare to pray and picket, evangelize and blockade until Americans can no longer ignore the way our affluence is built on poverty and starvation abroad.

The rallying cry became the «inerrancy of the Scriptures» (the doctrine that defined for its advocates the limits of the post-fundamentalist, «neo-evangelical» coalition which found expression in the National Association of Evangelicals, the Evangelical Theological Society, Christianity Today, and other institutions of the movement).

Do you think that, in criticizing certain expressions of the modern evangelical movement for being political / anti-intellectual, some of us have simply become (as Mike said in a comment at the end of my post) «total snobs»?

Evangelicals who are receptive to and seek to appropriate the work of such writers as Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and others also direct theological reflection in the same tidal movements as postliberalism.

In the case of the Emergent movement, I wonder if some of the additional cognitive dissonance comes from it moving away from Young Leaders, which (in my understanding) was primarily a group that was evangelical and relatively conservative theologically, and moving toward progressive Emergentism.

In terms of both constituency and leadership, evangelicals are in the forefront of the movement for more protective attitudes and laws regarding abortion.

As Richard Rohr said, «the evangelical support of Trump will be an indictment against its validity as a Christian movement for generations to come.»

IMO, what makes this particular situation so brilliant for examination is that there is destruction in both forks of the emergent movement, which was itself a response to destructiveness inside the Evangelical community.

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There is perhaps another movement among Evangelicals to force all people that are married - to - a-divorced partner out of church membership, or at least out of church leadership. . .

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.

Like the American Negroes who adopted the word «black» from the enemy and flung it back, or the feminists who accept «witch» and «bitch» as badges of honor, Dobson and Hindson are in a mood and movement that take fundamentalism back as a banner for pride and boasting and wave it in the faces of the, in their view, waning evangelicals.

Like a lot of twenty - somethings who grew up in the conservative evangelical subculture, I've been increasingly drawn to the emerging church movement.

For all of its diversity and debate, as a renewal movement, Evangelicalism can facilitate conversions that lead persons back to the Great Tradition if Evangelicals themselves remain committed to the cultivation of a broad Christian culture.

The Emergent movement always struck me as a way to introduce mainstream Protestant theology into the Evangelical church, without all the baggage of a larger church structure and oversight.

They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm.»

This is seen in the growing strength of Evangelical churches and of the house church movement.