Sentences with phrase «shaped evangelicalism»

These are books that have shaped evangelicalism as we see it today — not an evangelicalism we wish and hope for.

CT rankedLeft Behind among the landmark titles that have shaped evangelicalism.

Not exact matches

A healthier body of Christ will find relief in its excretion of evangelicalism while ingesting a historic Trinitarian - based ecclesiology, taking shape in a visible organism that gathers to worship and serves the other, since its God so loved the world.

These limitations duly noted, it remains the case that Worship and the Reality of God will help to nurture evangelical liturgy, something very important for the future shape of evangelicalism.

Judging from the agenda then apparent in the minds of young evangelicals and charismatics, I viewed the completed shape of the awakening as including new levels of theological and spiritual depth, a reinvigoration of the ecumenical impulse, and a return to the balance of nurture, evangelism and social transformation present in the original evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Noll argues that all this new Christianity has been shaped largely by American evangelicalism, and he suggests that the crucial elements are American forms, not American influence.

Without settling their questions of boundary and definition, I want to comment on the current shape of evangelicalism from the vantage of a friendly critic or a critical friend.

An imperialism of the present also thrives within a populist evangelicalism shaped by the likes of the celebrated evangelist Billy Sunday, who once boasted, «I don't know any more about theology than a jackrabbit does about ping pong, but I'm on the way to glory.»