Sentences with phrase «on evangelicalism»

... Yet while the hope I feel is real, I have not lost any of the skepticism I have frequently registered about the effects of a Trump presidency on evangelicalism, on racial minorities, and on America.

It's basically a point - by - point rebuttal to Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life and is a ruthless attack on evangelicalism.

Roger Olson calls himself a post-conservative evangelical, and in this podcast interview with Homebrewed Christianity, he explains why he hasn't given up on evangelicalism.

Packer wrote the international best - seller Knowing God and has since been a steady force of influence on evangelicalism.

«When people at progressive conferences dis on evangelicalism, I'm the first to jump in and defend it.

Balmer's attempt at originality has to do with the influence of Continental (Reformed, Lutheran, Dutch, German, etc.) «Pietism» on the evangelicalism that usually gets traced mainly to Puritanism.

One or two of the names of Pietists whom he considers influential on evangelicalism may be familiar: Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg and Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, for example.

First, on evangelicalism, Rob Bell caused quite a stir the other day when he too expressed his disenchantment with the term «evangelical.»

As with all reflection on evangelicalism, however, conclusions are necessarily fragmented.

Not exact matches

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.

Since at least the 1950s, conservative evangelicalism's overarching sexual ethic has put a substantive emphasis on «modesty» — that is, how [Christian] women dress, specifically in terms of highlighting their sensuality.

Typically, evangelicalism focuses on Biblicism and salvation as two of its major foundations and regards these as cutting across denominational boundaries, pointing to a deeper unity.

The evangelicalism of my youth was heavy on anti-intellectualism.

And, again, this form of evangelicalism so differs from the others that the Germans have had to invent a new word, Evangelikal, to describe the growing evangelical self consciousness in Europe after the Lausanne Congress on Evangelization that represented the neo-evangelical coalition.

In this way of conceiving evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.

While he maintains hope for its future as a reform movement within the church, he fails to observe that evangelicalism has taken on a life of its own outside the church.

There continues to be sober reflection on what the Trumpian moment means for the future of evangelicalism, and rightly so.

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodationEvangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodationevangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

Wilkinson's published dissertation, Between God and Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change (Oxford University Press), outlines the history of the climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.»

For a more scholarly look at the tern «evangelical,» check out this interesting piece from the Centre for Research on Candadian Evangelicalism, shared by Scot McKnight on his Jesus Creed blog.

On the evidence from these pages, contemporary evangelicalism fails miserably.

I've been reading the monastics recently, and it strikes me that while much of modern evangelicalism echoes their teachings on self - control and self - denial when it comes to sexuality, we tend to gloss over a lot what this great cloud of monastic witnesses has to say about self - control and self - denial in other areas of life — like materialism, food, relationships, and hospitality.

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.

It's a little bit like modern evangelicalism hitting on catholicism.

Women play complicated roles in Evangelicalism, all worked out within the framework of Protestantism's emphasis on maximizing lay participation.

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.

See «Evangelicalism and Anti-Intellectualism: Blame the Leaders» and «Worthen on Inerrancy and the Evangelical Crisis of Authority» and «Evangelicals and the Uneasy Relationship with Academic Freedom»

It has become something of a sport for folks in the evangelical, neo-Reformed tradition to take to the internet to draw out the «boundaries of evangelicalism,» boundaries which inevitably fall around their own particular theological distinctions and which seem to grow narrower and narrower with every blog post on the topic.

To «go soft» on hyper - fundamentalism on one hand or evangelicalism on the other is to remove from prospective converts the reasons to join this brand of fundamentalist movement.

«Though I recognize my debt to evangelicalism and am grateful for what God has taught me on the journey,» writes Mike, «coming back to a mainline church for me means coming home.

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.

I read it just a week before my presentation at George Fox Seminary on the future of evangelicalism, and it dramatically changed my angle!

Today, stereotyping evangelicalism as a whole only fortifies the influence of the political right on a movement that has a much more varied history.»

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

«It seems to me,» he responded, «that for you, evangelicalism is like the ex you broke up with a while ago but still stalk a little bit on Facebook.»

They effectively «made evangelicalism a major force on both sides of the Atlantic,» says Hatch.

But there is an irony here: Reading on, I found that this very love of dogma eventually led Newman away from the evangelicalism with which I then identified, first to Tractarianism and then to Rome.

If such deviation goes on in the green tree of Evangelicalism, one expects to find devotion to magic and the supernatural even more focused in the larger culture.

Editor's Note: Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania and is an expert on Black churches, evangelicalism and the religious right.

There is extreme legalism on the far end of Evangelicalism.

In the late 19th century, under the deforming impact of dispensational pessimism and liberal optimism, the broad river of classical evangelicalism divided into a delta, with shallower streams emphasizing — ecumenism and social renewal on the left and confessional orthodoxy and evangelism on the right.

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.

when I first started reading up on how extreme Christian fundamentalism has become in the last 30 yrs (since I left Evangelicalism), I was stunned to find that there is a whole movement afoot to keep children, especially girls, from attending college — yes, even BJU — for fear of them being «indoctrinated» with «liberal ideas».

Using the language of evangelicalism, he has described his new - found adherence to the warming worriers as a religious conversion, a moment of sudden enlightenment which overcame him at an alarming presentation by Sir John Houghton, first chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in England in 2002.

Whether drawing on civic liberalism, popular evangelicalism or simply pragmatic and ad hoc collections of cultural and programmatic elements, their response is the pattern many pundits have come to expect.

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.

But basic to each of these issues will be evangelicalism's ability to agree on a definition of «social justice» itself.