Sentences with phrase «what evangelical faith»

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«Once again, expressions of Christian faith that honor the rights of women to choose their own health care options and what happens to their bodies are not seen or heard,» wrote the Rev. Barbara Kershner Daniel, who pastors the Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ of Frederick, Maryland, in a message that she circulated via email.

What Sarah Bessey does is claim the voice of feminism for her own Christian faith — an evangelical faith, no less!

Posting a website doesn't make your diatribe anymore truthful... you are an evangelical atheist troll who hangs out on the religion blog and attacks all people of faith... I'm not saying this as an insult but just a statement of fact... it's what you do but it doesn't have to be this way... I think you know enough to know that your way ends in an eternity of anguish... attack me now to save face but please open your hardened heart and take your own journey to find God... ignore the radical wingnuts because this is your own journey.

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.

Brenda has become what some call «Christian famous» - a renowned evangelical speaker who tours the country with the likes of the 2012 Women of Faith tour, which will reach tens of thousands of Christian women with a message of hope and fFaith tour, which will reach tens of thousands of Christian women with a message of hope and faithfaith.

Not killing each other is a great gain... «Evangelicals and Catholics Together» emphasizes much of what we share in faith and many ways in which we may pray and work together for good.

From Karl: As someone who submitted as an adult to an ancient branch of the Christian faith, what do you make of the «emerging church» movement within (primarily) American evangelical and post-evangelical protestantism?

And when we Evangelicals share our faith in ways you find oppressive, please don't ask us to disavow what is fundamental to our identity.

If Evangelicals are looking for more authentic personal testimonies regarding the faith of political candidates, what part of Romney's stated belief in Joseph Smith's revelation in the forests of Pennsylvania would sway the vote of an Evangelical who adheres to a uniquely inspired Bible?

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.

But maybe we're not called to fathom the mind of God and instead to double down on what it means to be an evangelical Christian: to confess the faith and pray together, to proclaim Jesus in word and deed as we each feel called, and to live together in the forgiveness of sins.

Emergent evangelicals had bumped up against the limits of what George Lindbeck has called their «cognitive - propositional» approach to doctrine — faith as assent to propositional truths — but unlike earlier generations they no longer believed their only other option was to become traditionally «liberal.»

What can German evangelicals teach American evangelicals about the interplay between faith and politics?

A minority among the evangelicals — represented by such journals as Sojourners and the Other Side — is so radical in its criticism of the American economy and of our foreign policies that it gives up on liberal politics; nonetheless, its witness is an important corrective to what many of us regard as the Moral Majority's distortions of Christian faith.

The second issue for the evangelical way concerns what the new life of faith requires of man.

What matters here is that the evangelical leadership at Wheaton takes their statement of faith seriously and, well, they are unsure that Dr. Hawkins» statements align with their beliefs.

«I think what you may be referring to, though, when you say controversies, probably has more to do with two issues, which is abortion and gay marriage, which has become, I think, how people measure faith in the evangelical community.»

But just at the time when public universities seem to be taking more precautions against such knowledge (read: moral judgments) creeping into their curricula, evangelical high schools are being more aggressive in practicing what Carney refers to as the «integration of faith and learning.»