Sentences with phrase «of modern evangelicals»

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»?

In contrast, «the history of modern evangelical interpretation exhibits a strong degree of discomfort with the tensions and ambiguities of Scripture,» says Enns.

The presentation is called «The Contours of the Modern Evangelical Movement.»

Not exact matches

I don't like it when atheists want to secularize our culture and shut out any public mention of religion... But I also don't like it when modern evangelical fundamentalists are so ignorant of the Christian Church's teachings and traditions of two thousand years.

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.

Whether in evangelical, practical, or intellectual terms, the combination of the three systems in one — the democratic republic, a creative and dynamic economy, and an open, free, and pluralistic culture — has a proven modern record, surpassed by none, of raising up the poor.

As the discussion of the «Evangelicals and Catholics Together» document has made clear, the theological agenda of the Reformation remains of continuing importance to modern Christianity, particularly in the United States.

My hope is that as evangelicals move beyond the modern paradigm of individual autonomy (particularly as it applies to biblical interpretation), we will begin to appreciate church tradition as an undeniable foundation for our faith.

It was a relief to find a believer who wrote a reasonable explanation of the creation story that made more sense than I had ever read in modern evangelical publcations.

Nevermind just the rhetoric of war, I think there is a common refrain amongst modern evangelicals that «God is on our side, so who can stand against us?»

Converted to an evangelical brand of Christianity while studying Modern History at Oxford, Morris threw himself into the scriptures, was baptised in the Spirit and soon developed a teaching ministry.

A quarter of both evangelicals and black Protestants said they wouldn't mind if their church adjusted its traditional beliefs and practices, and a minority (8 % of evangelicals, 13 % of black Protestants) wanted their church to adopt modern beliefs and practices.

I actually do a presentation when I seek to explain the modern evangelical movement, particularly to movement leaders here in the United States or to missionaries who have been out of the country for a long time.

Modern evangelical Protestantism has, because of its populist tendencies, shown paradoxical signs of strength and weakness.

Are you not a product of your own modern biases as I am a product of fundamentalist - evangelical hermeneuitics?

Holmes concludes the book by describing the beliefs of modern presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush, proving that since World War II the presidents have moved in a more orthodox and even evangelical direction, which seems ironic considering the assumed rise of secularity in America.

The educated modern man needs no reminder how It has been of the best to «just go along» with the evangelical and his beliefs rather than suffer the wrath that might be so ordained against him by those who have carved out their virtuous beliefs from an age old written scripture.

What is commonly called the «modern missionary movement» among the Protestants is the product of pietistic and evangelical movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

But, today's modern evangelical fundamentalists, going back to the days of Abraham Vereide founding of the religio - business - political cabal The Family / The Fellowship / C Street / National Prayer Breakfast, chooses to ignore Jesus» comments about his ministry and are bound and determined to have our government controlled by theocratic politicians who are passing laws to further their goal of turning this country into an theocracy.

As cities boomed in late - nineteenth - century America, Evangelicals discovered innovative ways to meet the overwhelming challenge of modern cities.

The horrors of the Holocaust — which were occurring during the same years the modern evangelical movement was being born — also seared our conscience and deepened our sympathy for «God's chosen people.»

Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society, whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).

For many evangelicals, the Jewish people exited the stage of history after the destruction of the temple in a.d. 70 and only reemerged in the 1940s with the Holocaust and the birth of modern Israel.

Many evangelicals are beginning to grasp the fact, that certain ways of reading the Scriptures and certain doctrines about the Scriptures may actually become the means of oppression of modern women by the imposition of first century social patterns.

Fundamentalists and their more progressive evangelical descendants have repeatedly adapted successfully to the conditions and opportunities of modern life.

The result of making the unmediated connection between ancient Hebrews and modern Jews is that many evangelicals are accidental Zionists.

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.

Many evangelicals share with process thinkers resistance to the fragmentation of knowledge that characterizes the modern university and the world in general.

The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» worries that intellectually serious people have passed evangelicals by while we were allured by the sensations of revivalism, seduced by a materialistic market - driven culture, overtaken by the «disaster of fundamentalism» in the face of challenges from modern science and technology, and robbed of our universities through negligence and the inertia of secularized education.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

Here we raise the question of the precise relationship of evangelicalism and fundamentalism as historical phenomena, I do not mean here to give any credence to what I predict will be the common evangelical response to Barr — that he fails to distinguish appropriately a modern enlightened evangelicalism from a more benighted fundamentalism.

The blog is ABOUT belied in the modern world and is of great interest to those who consider the American evangelical community and certain other religious sects the source of some serious modern problems.

Modern evangelicals do need to «bridge the gap» and speak more plainly about their faith in terms that everyone can understand rather than assume that what they understand among themselves will be automatically understood by those who are not of their community when they speak to others about their faith.

James Davison Hunter's researches detected among some evangelicals a «shift... from the transcendent to the immanent,» a part of a larger tendency to conform to «the cognitive and normative assumptions of the modern world view.»

While this statement may be less true in some forms of evangelical worship, it is generally true of all modern church experience.

Many people think not; and to account for this slackening impulse in the highest and most complete of human mystical beliefs they argue that the evangelical flowering is ill - adapted to the critical and materialist climate of the modern world.

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

One hundred years after the Balfour Declaration, evangelicals are divided on how the modern state of Israel should be viewed.

The Second Vatican Council, through its Pastoral Constitution, called for an intellectual development that synthesises science, personalism and other aspects of modern culture with Church teaching, in a spirit of respectful but evangelical openness towards those outside the Church.

Old - line Christians may think that conservative evangelicals do not fully appreciate the importance of the philosophical tradition in undercutting belief in God's reality among thoughtful people in the modern world.

For Noll, this reflects both American evangelicals» ingenuity and skill with modern technology and the amazing initiative of third - world churches in distributing the film.

Those who take comfort in evangelical dogmas are fleeing what Hedges terms our «Culture of Despair» ¯ the social and economic conditions of modern industrialized America.

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.

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

Well, if you believe 2000 year old speculation over modern, evidence based, repeatable, testable science, then how would you react as President if some tragic event occurs and evangelicals are telling you it's the end of days?

As we have seen with some 81 percent of evangelical Christians (including a number of black clergy) supporting one of the most racist presidential campaigns we have seen in modern history, much of American Christianity continues to specialize in leaving the minds of black folk in the bondage of the sunken place.

Ritual worship in general appears to the modern transcendentalist, as well as to the ultra-puritanic type of mind, as if addressed to a deity of an almost absurdly childish character, taking delight in toy - shop furniture, tapers and tinsel, costume and mumbling and mummery, and finding his «glory» incomprehensibly enhanced thereby: — just as on the other hand the formless spaciousness of pantheism appears quite empty to ritualistic natures, and the gaunt theism of evangelical sects seems intolerably bald and chalky and bleak.

Pietism in Germany, the evangelical efforts of the Wesleys and Whitefield, and Jonathan Edwards as one of the leaders of the great awakening — these cultivated the fertile soil for the modern Protestant missionary movement.

The modern evangelical movement in America burst onto the public stage in the national election year of 1976.

The sign said: «Modern American Culture Museum of the Oxford University Press: Tonight's Feature: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture of America.»