Sentences with phrase «of evangelical theology»

Notwithstanding these reservations, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry is a promising sign of evangelical theology seeking to root itself more deeply in the tradition of the Church.

Reading these essays and the give - and - take that occurs in them will enrich anyone seeking to better understand both the differences between process thought and the Open expression of evangelical theology and the potential for significant development in theological responses to the contemporary religious and intellectual context.

Prayer can work miracles because God makes «himself dependent on the requests of his children» (Essentials of Evangelical Theology [Harper & Row, 1978, vol.

Having recognized both the diversity and the commonality of evangelical theological hermeneutics - that is, both its freedom and its rootedness - it will be helpful to readers of this collection of essays if we return to ask with greater care concerning the nature of evangelical theology's diversity.

Donald Bloesch, Essentials of Evangelical Theology.

Many of them would say that the old guard of evangelical theology has itself been slipping down a disastrous slope for at least two decades (since the publication of Harold Lindsell's Battle for the Bible)-- back toward fundamentalism.

Gerald McDermott has been prosecuting a case against a certain version of evangelical theology over the past few years (see here and here).

Because it is «God's Word,» it is the ultimate norm of evangelical theology.

In a recent interview in Sojourners, Jim Wallis asked Carl Henry, «Are there inherent things in particular formulations of evangelical theology that are resistant to fundamental change in the social order?

I read this article, «Wonder and the Revitalization of Evangelical Theology» written by Glen Scorgie in Crux Magazine back in December of 1990.

Donald W. Dayton is associate professor of historical theology at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Illinois, and chair of the steering committee of the evangelical theology section of the American Academy of Religion.

What one would not expect to find is these pseudo authorities being given aid and comfort within the structures of evangelical theology, but that is precisely what we have today.

Perhaps the greatest difference in this form of evangelical theology and that of Wesley is a matter of emphasis.

Not exact matches

While there has certainly been an increase in collaboration between evangelicals and Catholics in recent years, there has not been an attendant growth in understanding of the other tradition's actual theology.

Unlike Humanae Vitae for Catholics, evangelicals generally do not have a religious command or theology regarding the use of birth control.

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).

Forms of exegesis or biblical interpretation that do not support the homiletic, evangelical, and educational missions of the Church may have their place in the academy, but they are subsets of religious studies, not theology.

LifeWay warns Miller's readers to exercise discernment because it believes his books to be inconsistent with historical evangelical theology in some way, yet instead of refusing to sell them, LifeWay chooses to profit from what it alleges to be heresy (ish).

And what historical evangelical theology is communicated by paintings of cottages printed on mousepads, and T - shirts that print Scripture pulled from context across an American flag or keychains, or romance novels minus the sex?

Dr. Anthony McRoy, lecturer in Islamics at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology, told the «News Hour» why he doesn't believe the programme will have a significant impact on the issue and would like to see a new approach introducted, he said: «the last government tried something against radicalisation after 7/7, and look how ineffective it's been»

Wells describes the book as the continuation of an enterprise begun in 1989, which aimed to «explore the reasons for the decay of evangelical thinking, and not least in theology.»

Protestant evangelical failure to appreciate the Church's entire history, moreover, has resulted in the neglect of patristic and medieval writings laden with rich deposits for doing moral theology.

My own experience teaching students from evangelical traditions offers graphic and sober confirmation of the imperative to draw from the wider consensus of historic orthodoxy, especially in the domain of moral theology.

His early religious outlook was colored by the evangelical Baptist faith of his parents and a Calvinist theology of predestination - the belief that the fate of all men and women had been predetermined by God, PBS.org said of Lincoln in its «God in America» series.

With regard to the limitations of evangelical worship, Davis, a professor of theology at Gordon «Conwell Theological Seminary, has little new to say, though the familiar things he says must be said.

Worship and the Reality of God: An Evangelical Theology of Real Presence by John Jefferson Davis Intervarsity Press, 231 pages, $ 22

Over the years, I have observed the bulk of the Evangelical fleet drift — and then in desperation for some greater motivation, change fuels — from the open - arms gasoline of evangelism meetings, to the super-sparks of charismatic gifts, to the sluggish - diesel of homogenized Biblical theology, to the stuttering - and - sparkle fuel of Christian music, to the nitro - flamed - fuel of hating gays, and now to the turbo - charged hatred of illegal aliens at home and Muslims overseas.

I accept Christ 47 years ago and stayed in the Baptist — evangelical circle of influence until I went to a «community church» that had a heavy influence of Calvinest Reformed Theology.

The Christian Zionist distortions of historic evangelical and orthodox theology must be debated and confronted primarily by evangelicals but also by mainline Protestants, whose churches sometimes absorb these doctrines.

, The Use of the Bible in Theology: Evangelical Options (John Knox 1984).

Having opined in public previously on the question of what makes evangelical theology evangelical, he reports a recent breakthrough in his own thinking: It's not so much a set of....

Because of this ambiguity we need to give some attention to the question of in what sense the Wesleyan way of using Scripture in theology represents an «evangelical option.»

He credits evangelical theology as one that begins from sources «outside their experience»: the Word of God and a transcendent God.

The model of Jesus, John the Baptist, and Paul has not yet enabled even biblically serious Evangelicals to shape a theology that would affirm celibacy as anything more than a regrettable alternative to more - or-less mandatory marriage.

What Meacham observes instead is dwindling fervor for the notion that the U.S. should be governed by certain interpretations of the Bible or by Christian theology, an approach common among evangelicals.

The lesson offered is for evangelical theologians and pastors to be more deeply self - critical about the frames of classic liberalism which still often direct how the task of doing theology and preaching is viewed and undertaken.

There are those of us who are evangelical perhaps in our theology still (I think I am but who can keep track these days of the master list we're supposed to be checking?)

What is called «bad theology» in evangelical America may not be the same bad theology of other parts of church America.

In evangelical circles he is best known as the author of The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Westminster Press, 1984) and as one of the two founding fathers of postliberal thought, the other being Hans Frei.

For the evangelical theologian, this dialogue will ultimately be submitted to the final authority of Scripture, but a spirited interaction between all three of theology's sources can never be cut short.

Especially when you have a lot of black Protestants who identify theologically with evangelical thinking and theology, but they wouldn't culturally identify as evangelical.

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.

Perhaps in reaction to the «scandal of the evangelical mind,» evangelicalism of late has developed a general distrust of emotion when it comes to theology.

The main contribution of the Emergent movement was to articulate progressive theology in a manner and to an audience that wouldn't otherwise hear it, primarily Evangelicals and youth.

Very recently the university established the Bavinck Center for Evangelical and Reformed Theology (Herman Bavinck, a brilliant and productive champion of Reformed orthodoxy, was Abraham Kuyper's younger colleague).

And with this point, we are back once again to Packer's place in the Evangelical movement as a whole: How did such a committed Anglican, a Puritan in spirituality, and a Calvinist in theology, come to inspire the veneration of a kind of Evangelical popedom?

After all, evangelicals who fight for racial justice and evangelicals who fight for the life of the unborn draw from the same uniquely Christian theology of the imago dei.

Kelby Carlson, writing at Alastair's Adversaria, proposes a richer theological model of disability as he brings his experience as a disabled person «into dialogue with two important concepts: the evangelical doctrines of vocation and the theology of the cross.»

«But in the past several years, a new current has arisen in conservative evangelical thought: A small but significant number of theologians, psychologists, and other conservative Christians are beginning to develop moral arguments that it's possible to affirm same - sex relationships not in spite of orthodox theology, but within it.

It is clear then why the question of biblical authority is so important to evangelicals: belief in the infallibility of the Scriptures is the pillar which supports our theology - without it the edifice would surely crumble.