Sentences with phrase «of evangelical scholars»

Hundreds of evangelical scholars are completing specialized doctorates to prepare for teaching careers.

Just as the nature of Christ as God and man challenged the full faculties of the faith and reason of Augustine and the Church Fathers, so the nature of Scripture as the Word of God and the word of human authors challenges the full faculties of the faith and reason of evangelical scholars and missionaries today.

Not exact matches

Should add most that you accept since there are tons of orthodox and catholic and evangelical Christian scholars that you clearly have not read or considered.

But in recent years I have come to appreciate the fact that many promising younger evangelical scholars got their start in a serious commitment to the life of the mind by responding positively to the LaHaye - type call to intellectual warfare.

Ross offers a defense of evangelical liturgical practices (perhaps better described as «norms,» actually) by putting Catholic scholar Aidan Kavanagh into conversation with Anglican theologian John Webster.

In recent decades pundits and some scholars have made much of the post-WWII evangelical resurgence, coupled with a precipitous post-1965 mainline decline.

The Methodist scholar Cyril Eastwood rightly lamented the distortion of this evangelical imperative: «The common error that the phrase «priesthood of believers» is synonymous with «private judgment» is most unfortunate and is certainly a misrepresentation.

The scholar I have found most associated with the claim in more recent Evangelical literature is Anthony Hoekema, an irenic Reformed scholar to be sure, but one who nevertheless has said that «it has been the almost unanimous conviction of the mainline Protestant churches that these miraculous gifts ceased at the close of the Apostolic Age.»

For some years now, a raft of distinguished scholars (Heiko Oberman, David Yeago in this journal, Bruce Marshall, Christine Helmer, and Paul Hinlicky) have been showing how Catholic the real Luther was» contrary to the portrait of Luther used for polemical purposes by too many evangelicals and even Lutherans.

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.

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.

The first is relatively uncontroversial to most believers except, perhaps, to evangelical philosophers and fundamentalists of various types — namely, that laypeople are in no position to adjudicate disputes among experts in New Testament scholarship because the scholars have an expertise in languages and ancient history that laypeople lack.

Agnostic scholar Katharine Wilkinson looks at the legacy of the Evangelical Climate Initiative.

I've heard powerful, encouraging things from stay - at - home moms, from conservative evangelicals, from biblical scholars, from plenty of guys, even from People Magazine.

A second lesson that Lindbeck offers evangelicals is a model for understanding how the biblical virtues should manifest themselves in one's vocation, especially in the vocation of theologians and biblical scholars.

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.

Everyone who is anyone was there: Evangelicals and Catholics; Jews and Muslims; Sunni and Shia; the «Dharmic» religions of Asia; and scholars from different disciplines.

Even though the two scholars represent opposite ends of the evangelical spectrum on salvation, both made essentially the same allegation: the wording seems, at best, theologically careless and, at worst, represents a heretical understanding of sin, human nature, and the human will.

Malone, an independent scholar, has years of experience in student affairs work, including a doctoral study focused on students» relational practices on evangelical campuses and how they differ from broader patterns of campus life in America.

How can N.T. Wright, an evangelical New Testament scholar, co-write a book with his friend Marcus Borg, a progressive, panentheist, and fellow of The Jesus Seminar?

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

Studies by Protestant and Catholic scholars show that one reason for the evangelicals» success is the lack of sufficient Catholic priests to serve the burgeoning population.

One recent paper read at a meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (again, by a scholar from one of Lindsell's «safe» schools) vigorously defended the inerrancy doctrine but then rushed on to the hermeneutical level to distinguish between the timebound Weltbild of Scripture which may be discarded and the eternal Weltanschauung of Scripture which must be preserved.

Thirdly, although Steve gave no examples in his article of any discrepancies, errors or contradictions in the Bible, those he gave in his February 2011 article on the subject have been refuted numerous times by evangelical scholars.

Though it is impossible to know how many Pentecostals are in Latin America, there is a consensus among scholars that they make up between 70 % and 80 % of the evangelicals, which number in the tens of millions.

I have a hunch that one explanation accounts for the silence of evangelical biblical scholars more than any other: the basic fear that their findings, as they deal with the text of Scripture, will conflict with the popular understanding of what inerrancy entails.

Introduction Scholars such as John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin have developed the Christological implications of Whiteheadian process - relational thought in a number of widely read works in recent years.1 «Evangelical» Christians, holding the Christian scriptures to be the uniquely inspired and authoritative charter documents of their faith, and finding in these scriptures a Christ...

To begin with, I might call his attention to Naomi Schaefer Riley's God on the Quad and Alan Wolfe's The Opening of the Evangelical Mind, not to mention the thoughtful criticism and self - criticism of distinguished scholars like George Marsden and David Lyle Jeffrey.

Recently joining the fray was evangelical scholar Ben Witherington III of Asbury Theological Seminary a prolific author of New Testament studies.

Those of us who call ourselves «evangelical scholars» are accustomed to suspicion from the church and incredulity from the academy.

October 20 - 21 Join the Center for Evangelical Catholicism and both Catholic and Protestant scholars to discuss the theological reasons for the Protestant Reformation, the prospects for the restoration of Church unity, and how Catholics and Protestants can work together going forward.

Christian fiction best - seller lists brim with Amish romance novels, largely because of their large evangelical readership, which scholars trace to the 2006 shooting and its stunning postlude of Amish forgiveness.

Some well - respected evangelical scholars think this means Paul did not permit a woman of that particular community to teach and dominate a man for selfish gain resulting in licentiousness (see recommended reading).

The New Testament scholar explained how, in his evangelical youth, he spent a number of years trying to prove to people that Jesus had been raised from the dead.

Scholars such as John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin have developed the Christological implications of Whiteheadian process - relational thought in a number of widely read works in recent years.1 «Evangelical» Christians, holding the Christian scriptures to be the uniquely inspired and authoritative charter documents of their faith, and finding in these scriptures a Christ whose divine humanity defies explanation in terms of any general metaphysical scheme, have had for the most part little interest in or even contact with these process - relational Christologies.2 That revelation presents to us this Christ is sufficient warrant for believing him; his being is, at any rate, incommensurate with ours.

So if it didn't exist during the time of Jesus then evangelicals, or any other religious scholar, doesn't have the right to state their opinion on it?

A team of five established and published scholars — women and men, black and white — interviewed a wide variety of families, ranging in religious orientation from Jewish to African - American Pentecostal, to white evangelical, to mainline Protestant, to Catholic.

Last summer New Testament scholar Helmut Koester wrote to Lutheran scholars and church leaders across the country urging reconsideration of «new plans» that might do «serious damage» to Fortress, which he characterized as «an important instrument of theological scholarship» of which the new Evangelical Lutheran Church in America should be proud.

From RHE: Scot, you're one of those writers / theologians / biblical scholars that keeps me in the evangelical conversation.

CNN: My Take: Counting the Bible's words doesn't yield a Republican Jesus Stephen Prothero, Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» responds to angry emails he received after writing a Belief Blog post in which he takes issue with evangelicals using Jesus as a political tool to benefit the Republican Party.

I chatted to a well - known OT scholar once, who stated, «There will come a day when evangelical Christians have to repent of their attitude to homosexuality; it is no more sinful than wearing polycotton shirts.»

I thought about the variety of faith backgrounds represented on this blog — Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists, Presbyterians, conservative evangelicals, agnostics, Mennonites, Methodists, Pentecostals, doubters, skeptics, fundamentalists, disenfranchised fundamentalists, religious scholars, and religious misfits — and all I could think to say was, «My blog attracts people who are in transition... or who have recently transitioned... from one way of approaching their faith to another.»

To summarize: the Years of the Evangelicals have been good to evangelical scholars, partly because those scholars have helped.

The college has joined both the Lilly Network of Church - related Colleges and Universities and the Rhodes Consultation, and participates vigorously in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's summer conferences on the calling of the Lutheran college and in its Lutheran Academy for younger scholars.

The book that Hughes edited contains an exchange between a Churches of Christ scholar, Thomas Olbricht, and evangelical Mark Noll.

Many factors have contributed to what one scholar has called «this curious ecumenical turn» within the recent history of Catholics and evangelicals, of which Evangelicals and Catholics Together is but evangelicals, of which Evangelicals and Catholics Together is but Evangelicals and Catholics Together is but one symptom.