Sentences with phrase «words evangel»

In fact, McKnight argues that modern evangelicals seem to have confused the words evangel (Greek for gospel) and soteria (Greek for salvation).

But for the last two weeks I have been honestly chagrined to keep seeing the word Evangel with a post beneath it that had nothing explicitly (and usually not implicitly) to do with the gospel.

Not exact matches

I'm really at my best when I am at 3 pages or less in final content (about 1500 words) and I try to stick to one subject — even by analogy.Kevin DeYoung may be my fellow blogger here at Evangel, but he's not really a blogger....

Given such uncertainty, and given the dreary artistic landscape that now assaults us, perhaps the last word should be given again to the death «cry of that evangel of the death of God» and of art» Friedrich Nietzsche: «In Gethsemane» The most grievous thing the thinker can say to the artists is: «What?

Both words come from the Greek root evangel.

So the problem with translating the evangel word family is that there are not any good English words to translate it to.

Linguistically the word evangelical is rooted in the Greek word evangelion and refers to those who preach and practice the good news; historically the word refers to those renewing groups in the church which from time to time have called the church back to the evangel; theologically it refers to a commitment to classical theology as expressed in the Apostles» Creed; and sociologically the word is used of various contemporary groupings of culturally conditioned evangelicals (i.e., fundamentalist evangelicals, Reformed evangelicals, Anabaptist evangelicals, conservative evangelicals).