How To Use Evangelical In A Sentence

He establishes that Evangelical theology ‘lacks a unitary hermeneutic’ of Catholicism.
He took up the cause with evangelical fervor.
We shall see, however, that while evangelicals were readier to defend racial segregation than nonevangelicals, in part because of where they lived, their distinctiveness on this dimension declined as evangelicalism grew. American Grace
These men co-operated in the camps and conferences of the Evangelical Movement of Wales.
It is the fastest growing section of the Anglican Church, with more than one third of Anglican churchgoers claiming to be Evangelicals.

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Two centuries earlier an ‘evangelical’ was the equivalent of ‘a gospeller’.
In his encyclical on ecumenism, Pope Paul II speaks of the need to overcome our exclusiveness, our reluctance to forgive, our pride, our presumptuous disdain, and our unevangelical proclivity to condemn the other side.
'Christian youth,' but he stumbles upon the term 'new ideas,' and, falling precipitately into a fury, neither evangelical nor angelical, calls Napoleon a sicario (cut-throat), and Vittorio Emanuele an assassino. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Two centuries earlier an ‘evangelical’ was the equivalent of ‘a gospeller’.
Both allowed the very young a certain exemption from the adult rules of religious belief and behavior; spiritually speaking, for rationalist Unitarians and evangelicals, children were a different order of moral being than adults.
One of several reasons this makes me a bit huffy is that it's not at all evident (far from it!) that what an Evangelical such as Colson believes about justification, faith, and charity is what Luther believed. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
From the late 1780s onwards evangelicals contributed substantially to the pamphlet literature against the slave trade.
(In fact, some modernist critics would say that Evangelicals and other biblical literalists engage in "bibliolatry" or text worship.) Valerie Tarico: Psychology of God: Do Christians Believe God Has Emotions?
The presence of evangelical contributors is interesting, and the number of those principally engaged in pastoral work is also notable.
As the portentous millennium approached, evangelical thoughts turned to the long-awaited Second Coming of Christ and thence to Armageddon.
To say that evangelical Christians believe that non-evangelicals deserve to suffer and die is like saying that people who sell life and disability insurance believe that those who don’t follow their advice to buy insurance *deserve* to suffer and live in penury and/or have their families suffer and live in penury if they die or become disabled. The Volokh Conspiracy » HRW’s Whitson Defends Fundraising in Totalitarian Countries:
Much evidence from our Faith Matters surveys confirms that on many different issues, both sociopolitical (e.g., abortion) and religious (e.g., importance of religion in their personal lives), evangelicals and nones are polar opposites. American Grace
It gives us a measure of the indulgent sympathy and religious tolerance which prevailed in this Evangelical home, that the parents should have unhesitatingly supplied the boy of fourteen, at some cost of time and trouble, with all the accessible writings of the "atheistical" poet, and with those of his presumably like-minded friend Keats as well. Robert Browning
I received my formal theological training at a predominantly white evangelical divinity school in the Chicago suburbs. Christianity Today
Evangelicals claim to contribute more than 40% of the £400 million raised for the church by parishes each year.
The sad truth is that many evangelicals had no problems with what was said.
The American public is being presented with an evangelical civics lesson, not only daily but hourly.
Huckabee would consolidate the "solid South" for the Republicans, energizing the evangelical Christian base and fending off efforts by Obama to "redraw" the electoral map. Huckabee says he'd like to be McCain's running mate
The media/Republican evangelical extremist leaders never kill anyone themselves of course, and they always "deplore" the violence. Frank Schaeffer: Understanding Domestic Terror USA -- It's About the Twisted Theology Stupid!
As an aristocrat Hartington was not untypical in regarding them as evangelical fanatics who needed restraining.
Richard Carrier: I predict Evangelicals and Catholics (and Mormons and Baptists and everyone else) will not be able to arrest the current trend in younger generations toward liberal non-denominationalism and the abandonment of the entire church-sermon model that Christianity has maintained so far. Interview with Richard Carrier
The release of this statement from conservative evangelicals is really a sign of desperation on the part of Republicans concerned that their political reign in Congress may end come November. Eco-Justice
For whom did the editors think Jesus wanted evangelical Christians to vote?
These moments draw on and return to a practice entrenched in evangelicalism: the use of Bible memory verses.
His partner is his father, Mel, the gay-rights activist who, before coming out, was an evangelical minister who ghostwrote books for Billy Graham and Pat Robertson. Delicious White Whine
Countries such as Brazil, Chile, and Guatemala have a strong evangelical and Protestant tradition.
Some days, the international post brought him evangelical pamphlets from America. WHITE LIES
If God is a product of evolution, like bipedalism and tool making, well, the jig's up and not just for evangelicals. Pete Enns: Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution And Evangelicals
Some days, the international post brought him evangelical pamphlets from America. WHITE LIES
It recognizes the validity of all Evangelical orders, confirmed in the laying on of hands of the presbytery; and holds communion with, and exchanges pulpits with, all Evangelical Protestant Churches, and receives from them by letters dimissory, clergy and laity without reordination or reconfirmation, and dismisses to them, as to parishes in her own communion.
But some of the most reputable news sources in the country seem to be trying to represent evangelicals fairly. Christianity Today
But support for decriminalizing marijuana was low among evangelicals. Christianity Today
Evangelical Christians have traditionally taught that everyone who wants to be saved must accept Jesus Christ as saviour.
The British Evangelical Council, first formed in 1952 as an Evangelical response to unbiblical ecumenism, is now known as ‘Affinity’.
Voters who hear McCain's dog whistle and then listen to it (certain evangelicals, dyed in the wool bigots) wouldn't vote for Obama anyway. Discourse.net: New Low For McCain Campaign: Obama == The Anti-Christ
Thus, dispensational theology made a lot of sense to both Pentecostal and evangelical believers at this point in history.
For starters, he's put off by what he calls the sterile look of modern evangelical churches. Latest Articles
This hatred of evangelical Christians does not surprise us, as Jesus the Savior of the world told us this would happen as history has documented.
The authors describe three different camps within CCM, which correspond to divisions within evangelical Christianity.
It completely misrepresents any interpetation of the bible other than the biblist idolotry of the modern evangelical christianist junta. AvaxHome RSS:
On the other hand, thousands of evangelical Christians, spiritualists and Swedenborgians continued to affirm that they had literally heard God's voice.
Not sure what he’d do if genuine martyrdom would advance the evangelical goal. franz dibbler Freshwater: Dec 8, 10, & 11, 2009 - The Panda's Thumb
They have an evangelical fervour that turns speakers into born-agains, again and again.
The treatment accorded him by evangelicals gives no indication that their minds or their hearts were open. Christianity Today
Many of our Evangelical traditions are unscriptural and destructive of our growth in Christ, as we have pointed out.
But in the 1893 campaign in Chicago, Moody was the first evangelical preacher that I know of who invited Roman Catholic prelates, priests, and bishops to share his platform.
Its evangelical work and social reform work were wedded together.
On the road from Nairobi we passed a billboard outside an evangelical church. Times, Sunday Times
The evangelical revival made sabbatarianism fashionable, so that on a Victorian Sunday there was no sport or pleasure, not even reading of serious secular literature.
Still, personal magnetism and motivational esprit remain important qualifications for leadership in evangelical groups.
The name Evangelical derives from the profession of the Evangel - that is, the gospel.
While Graham is a popular figure in evangelical circles and neutral with the general public, Robertson is relatively uninfluential with evangelicals and unpopular with the general public.
This mythic territory, once navigated by Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, hosts a journey to declining river towns, tiny evangelical churches, and seedy whorehouses populated by disturbed and disturbing characters.
Brian Clark outlines the underlying similarities between ultramontanism and evangelicalism.
Detroit convention, was adopted what is known as the evangelical test, and at the Portland convention of 1869 the definition of the term evangelical; they are as follows: -- The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884
In June, evangelical priest Yousef Nadrkhani and his wife, both converts, were arrested in the northern city of Rasht. Iran Targets Christians With a Wave of Arrests
Christians by and large aren't being attacked because Catholics believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation or because some evangelicals believe in the Rapture.
The care of the publique must oversway all private interests, for it is a true rule that perticuler estates cannot subsist in the ruinue of the publique." sic It's very difficult to hear the arguments against taxing the inordinately wealthy as reflecting anything of that evangelical sentiment and social imperative. Frank G. Kirkpatrick: Searching For The Common Good In Political Discourse
They were young, well-educated, altruistic; Stephanie found their idealism naively evangelical. CHAMELEON
His undramatic story failed to pass muster with some evangelicals, but it is a moving testimony nonetheless: Briallen Hopper: Amazing Grace: How Conversion Really Works
At Trinity College, Cambridge, he associated with the evangelical group led by Isaac Milner, being studious and earnest, modest and timid.
Fairbairn entered the ministry of the Evangelical Union in Scotland.
This amounts to a death wish as it is generally only the evangelical wing of the church that is growing.
But we can stand our ground on these points and still let the evangelicals help us balance our word to the church: inclusion and acceptance, but also metanoia and new life.
In a larger practical sense, however, evangelical revivalism shared basically Unitarian assumptions about the moral autonomy of children.
The fact that so many evangelicals would rather see the recent HCR legislation, with its guarantee of ending the onerous “pre-existing condition” stuff, go down in defeat is a crisp and clear comment on the utter moral depravity of evangelicalism. Think Progress » Bachmann claims Romney doesn’t believe RomneyCare was ‘a good thing for’ Massachusetts.
Such communities acquired their own distinctive character and many welcomed the Evangelical Revival with enthusiasm.
They indicate a kind of exilic quality that is developing in evangelical storytelling as the American evangelical subculture learns to negotiate post-Christian America.
MS: And you'd had people who came from Colorado Springs, which is of course the center of evangelical movement, who were involved with the churches? 11/06/2006
Then, perhaps having seen the error of his choice in the damage it's wreaking in non-Evangelical circles, he has disloyally thrown her to the wolves. Maggie Van Ostrand: Prominent Republicans Not Endorsing Obama May Cast Closet Votes for Him
The treatment accorded him by evangelicals gives no indication that their minds or their hearts were open. Christianity Today
Our country has become more diverse over the past half-century, and so have evangelical churches. Christianity Today
The era ended in reaction: evangelical, political, romantic, conformist.
Rule XXI. is against unevangelical contention for places at table, and Rule XXII. regulates the monastic habit. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
In an attempt to rechannel my immediate discontentment with her tax returns, I will give her credit for supporting her husband in the face of the nightmare that is those cherished extremist evangelical preacher/Gods. Cindy McCain releases 2006 tax returns
Gateway is a charismatic evangelical church with lively worship and a good range of ages in the congregation.
Especially among Evangelicals and so-called Charismatics you will find that the word Latest Articles
No need to dwell on the legendary beauty of the cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each of the four evangelists in turn presenting to each of the four masters his evangelical symbol, a bogoak sceptre, a North American puma (a far nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing), a Kerry calf and Ulysses
Evangelical Christianity especially presents a variety of options to a culture questing for meaning, providing journey language and help with the problems of everyday life.
However, in Eastern Europe since the end of the communist regimes Catholic, Orthodox, and evangelical religion, as well as new religious sects, have witnessed a remarkable revival.
W.T.F. is an evangelical, Pentecostal ministry that believes in the full Bible, rightly divided.
About 80 theologians and evangelical leaders released the document as charter signatories. Christianity Today
Also, why is it less evangelically legitimate for you to count your church contribution as untaxable income than for the church itself to be untaxable? Obama Releases His 2000-2006 Tax Returns, Demands Hillary Release Hers
unevangelical" young lawyer who was "not far from the kingdom of heaven," and yearned towards the penitent Peter, and from the tenderness of his immaculate purity said to the adulteress, The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
It's interesting that now he is considered to be a leader by both evangelicals and Catholics.
Sometimes we as evangelical pastors feel alone. Christianity Today
But he fails to acknowledge other cultural and socioeconomic forces at work, including the dramatic effects of industrialism, urbanization, evangelical Christianity, slavery, and sectionalism.
Prodi is too much politician, provincial and elitist to be taken seriously and Bhagwati is -- paradoxically -- evangelical and boring as he defends globalization. David E.
Returning to his old political ways, the general has again taken to delivering evangelical harangues and has challenged the media opposed to his campaign.
The discourse between evangelical Christians and atheists has been antipodal at best. Frank Fredericks: God, We Need Atheists
Yes, for some evangelical Christians, the phrase centrally expressed an antipathy to abortion or opposition to gay marriage. Flavia Colgan: Memo to Dems: Keep the Faith, Baby
Perhaps the incredibly corrupt, capitalistic American evangelical churches which are usually congregationalist and loosely connected, if at all, to national churches have brought on this reputation, along with the Catholic church. An atheist defends theists: part two: do unto others
Christianity Today noted that he was ‘a man whose theology had decidedly unevangelical elements’.
“Christians are the new gays,” more than one person told me, rolling their eyes at the condescending voguishness evangelicals are currently enjoying in Hollywood. Rapture Ready!
And as the nature of evangelical holiness consists herein, -- namely, in a universal conformity unto him as he is the image of the invisible God, -- so the proposal of his example unto us is an effectual means of ingenerating and increasing it in us. Pneumatologia
These heterodox opinions have, in some respects, dogged Evangelicalism ever since.
Glasgow as a whole gained a reputation as the model of a Christian city in action - as a city which instituted social reform within a respected Protestant evangelical framework.
You are nuts! Perhaps schizophrenic, certainly delusionary just to think your fellow citizens would approve of a return to such violence and chaos as putting evangelical madmen like Fred Phelps in charge of anything at all. Are we a Christian Nation?
Historic Protestantism is different from evangelicalism in its current incarnation.
The teabagger/birther movement is a movement of white evangelicals, in which all the social concerns and issues of white evangelicals are publicly and proudly displayed. Think Progress » ‘Impeach Obama’ Advocate At CPAC Concedes Movement Is Based Largely On ‘Policy Differences’
Its evangelicalism encouraged personal piety but not social reform and gave only limited attention to building the kind of personal character that made for commercial success. America Past and Present
For example, many evangelicals are almost gloating over the decline of the liberals. Christianity Today
In evangelical symbolism, that meant that a man of prayer was going to commune with God, somewhat like Moses on Mount Sinai.
There are no easy ways to screen fake from genuine pastoral care or to distinguish the spiritual agency from the business-oriented, televangelical station.
In the judgment of this reviewer, the absence at times leaves the work looking a bit more like a dictionary of education than an evangelical dictionary of Christian education.
But outside of the televangelical context, Christian music, videos, films, and magazines are not uniformly designed to convert consumers.
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I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me.
Your ability to distinguish sprouted brown rice protein from heirloom maca marks you out as one of the evangelical elect. Times, Sunday Times
All you have are the non-canonical scriptures, the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, both of which are universally rejected by the non-Catholic Evangelical church as fakes and poor imitations of real scripture. Chris Hitchens meets the Christians | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
He was steeped in the individualistic waters of evangelical religion.
Among evangelical Christians, Graham is known for avoiding divisive rhetoric.
Selian is a health-care ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania.
As a young man he was baptized into the Evangelical Mennonite Church, at that time known as the Kleine-gemeinde.
Do you think that there is an Evangelical reason that Pentagon is "webbed" or built like The Mount Temple? Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
It is common in evangelical Protestant circles for converts to witness to their faith by recounting their experience of conversion.
Recently, conservative and evangelical observers have been loudly complaining about what they call a campaign to de-Christianize Christmas, to unmoor it from its origin as the birthday of Christ. December 2005
Exhibitions are discussed with almost evangelical fervour. Times, Sunday Times
They were young, well-educated, altruistic; Stephanie found their idealism naively evangelical. CHAMELEON
I started off implacably opposed to this and now I am almost evangelical in my support.
Among the most active critics were practitioners of evangelical Christian "apologetics" -- speakers and writers who make their mission to actively defend their faith. Mormons Dismayed
Dorrien is an ‘Anglican social gospeler and dialectical theologian’ aiming to incorporate evangelical thought into the map of modern theological developments.
Center stage is now occupied by Pentecostals, charismatics, evangelicals, fundamentalists, conservative Baptists and Lutherans, and select Roman Catholic writers and movements.
Certainly evangelical churches seeking racial and ethnic integration have a long, difficult path ahead of them. Christianity Today
Since I've become a Catholic I've discovered that in Catholicism, the word 'apostolate' is used much the way Protestants and Evangelicals use the word 'ministry'. Understanding Ministries and Apostolates
Prism, the monthly published by Evangelicals for Social Action, has called the series ‘the most pro-family, God-preoccupied, home-based program on television.’
The popularity of the Left Behind series suggests that premillennialism still has a hold on many evangelicals (though I suspect that much of the appeal lies in a kind of lingering curiosity rather than heartfelt conviction). Randall Balmer: Pavlovian Premillennialism
Moreover, if birth rates were the whole story, then evangelical growth should have been visible between successive birth cohorts, not within them, but that is also not the case.37 Finally, the long-term inertia of demographic arithmetic should have continued to push up the evangelical share of the population for at least several decades more, even after the evangelical birth rate converged to the nonevangelical birth rate. American Grace
Hypocrisy is at its worst; for we not only persecute bigotedly but sincerely in the name of the cure-mongering witchcraft we do believe in, but callously and hypocritically in the name of the Evangelical creed that our rulers privately smile at as the Italian patricians of the fifth century smiled at Jupiter and Venus. The Revolutionist’s Handbook
Many evangelical Protestants also want to erode the separation of church and state.
His talents were put unstintingly at the disposal of the evangelical cause. Times, Sunday Times
Evangelicals are a sub-set of Christianity, a religion that includes Catholics, Episcopalians, liberal Protestants, Greek Orthodox, etc.
Lord Ashley was a well-known philanthropist, and his consistent support and patronage of many religious and charitable societies had naturally given him popularity among the Protestant clergy of all denominations, -- a popularity heightened in the case of the Evangelical and Calvinistic ministers by his Lordship's strict Sabbatarianism and his belief in cold dinners on The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
Such statements bear the mark of a wan hope that evangelicals and Pentecostals should be other than who they are.
And in a matter of time, there will be 100 million active evangelical voters who will, every year, every election year, decide the pro-life, pro-family candidate's elected.
They sealed off the two-storey block opposite Bethesda Evangelical Church as forensic scientists conducted a fingertip search.
It was probably in the main a fairly adequate digest of the evangelical narratives, for otherwise it would not have maintained its grounds; but passages which offended Tatian's Encratic and Gnostic views, such as the genealogies, were excised; and this might easily be done without attracting notice under cover of his general plan. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
It is compelled to confess the recent advance of evangelical doctrines in the German mind, but sees only evil in the fact, and utters this jeremiade: "This church sentiment, which has seized upon the whole of the _noblesse_ in North History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
Our acquitment, in true, evangelical justification, is by absolution or pardon of sin; here, by a vindication of our own righteousness. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
There are a lot of recovering evangelicals at the church, and many of them are friends from Bethel College.
Evangelicalism is pushing for more war, in order that the Rapture, Armageddon and the Second Coming should occur. Think Progress » Palin: Obama could win reelection if he ‘played the war card’ and declared ‘war on Iran.’
He was dismissed after the evangelical vicar discovered that he had long been cohabiting with his long-standing partner.
These churches engage in multiple business ventures from tele-evangelical services to lucrative music businesses and have slick websites offering ‘online shopping’.
Many evangelicals say they're just trying to satisfy demands not met by traditional churches.
But evangelicals, the word evangelical comes from the Greek word that means good news. CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2004
Feeling called to the ministry, he spent a year in private study before beginning his pastorate at Spring Road Evangelical Church in 1955.
I have my theological beefs with Mormonism, of course, but my experience is that people with some approximation of traditional religious faith have discovered that we have much more in common with one another than we do with the militant secularists, which is why evangelicals, Catholics, religious Jews, and the last of the remaining old-line Protestants have found so many opportunities for cooperation. LOSING OUR RELIGION
His discussions of the doctrine of Scripture and angelology in Theology of the Community of God were also ground-breaking as far as Evangelical thinking was concerned.
Relevant also is the fact that Mormonism and evangelicalism are both proselytizing faiths, and thus are often in head-to-head competition for converts.12 American Grace
As ever, it's our pastimes' deepest virtues that incite the most venomous evangelical slander.
An ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, he previously taught homiletics and liturgics at the University of Notre Dame.
In a larger practical sense, however, evangelical revivalism shared basically Unitarian assumptions about the moral autonomy of children.
Again, it’s the sick and twisted Calvinist virus running rampant in evangelicalism today. Think Progress » Gregg: Not ‘A Lot Of People’ Would ‘Really Care’ If Democrats Use Reconciliation To Finish Health Care
When Luther, in the domain of religion, characterized as unevangelical the conception of merit and reward, and energetically banished the huckster-spirit from religious feeling, he opened to the Gems (?) of German Thought
The decision by Elliot and Fleming to devote themselves to the Quichua was a small part of a wave of evangelical fervor that swept over the Oriente. One River
But, in spite of the labours of the past 50 years by Evangelicals, Mexico is still a country ‘more papist than the pope’.
The topic of this dissertation is a study on the thought of modem Christian Evangelicalism .
Increasing numbers of evangelicals are emerging from our training colleges. Times, Sunday Times
For example, many evangelicals are almost gloating over the decline of the liberals. Christianity Today
Reformed theology has historically been the branch of evangelicalism most strongly committed to the sovereignty of God.
Following Christ's example, Evangelicals will seek to live sacrificially.
To help him in his outline of evangelical perfection, Ignatius received a special assistance, which Polanco and Ribadeneira call the unction of the Holy Ghost. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Indeed I now find myself troubled by the distinctly nonhistorical stance of much of evangelicalism, and therefore drawn to the arguments of the editors about their two great confessional faiths.
I have spent most of my life, including my academic life, within the evangelical Protestant community.
His obsession with evangelical Christianity made him want to become a clergyman like his father, so he tried to enroll in a theology school.
In popular consciousness, Evangelical or evangelistically minded Christians and Muslims are two plausible contenders. Ben DeVan: Evangelicals And Muslims Loving God, Each Other, And The World Together?
The official state religion is Roman Catholicism, but Evangelical Protestant movements are making converts among traditional Catholic believers.
And that's why evangelicals returned finally to scripture to see what he says about how one is rightly related to God with its implications for how to get along with others and loving others and being forbearing and so forth.
The top decile of this scale accounts for 27 percent of all evangelical Protestants. American Grace
It is sad that evangelicals have often despised the theology of the confessing churches.
Corporate evangelicalism is an abomination and a disgrace. Think Progress » American Family Association Pins SeaWorld Death On Lack Of Christianity: ‘Bible Ignored, Trainer Died’
For example, despite his disagreements with the repressive policy of the Church of England toward evangelical preachers like himself, Bunyan did not follow Roger Williams in refusing all fellowship with conformists.
Christians have adopted the title evangelicals because they believe in this Good News and believe in sharing the good news or evangelizing. :: in.a.mirror.dimly ::
But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for humility.
The pictures of the evangelical megachurches remind me of Las Vegas gambling palaces.
Do you believe that evangelicals should strive to reach unreached peoples with the gospel?
Denial of this is considered heretical by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox ( and Evangelicals ) alike.
Having opted to grow on secular terms, American evangelicalism is becoming less hostile to liberal ideas such as tolerance and pluralism. And The Winner Is...
It occurs to me that I've been more 'evangelized' by the evangelical type of atheist than by any evangelical Christian or Muslim. Beware of the man with a cause, a guitar, and a belief in his own way with words.
But if there is anything essentially unevangelical, it is surely the concept of the hero. The Antichrist
Its success also contributed to bitter divisions between the high church or catholic grouping and the low church or evangelicals.
He laments the decline in commitment to the biblical text even among evangelical preachers.
By then it had taken on some of the characteristics of the evangelical revival and shed its lukewarm latitudinarianism.
James Packer's essay on hermeneutics predates Anthony Thiselton's efforts to increase hermeneutical awareness among evangelicals.
I will even grant that there are significant areas where secular progressives and evangelicals (to whom the label progressive can sometimes also apply) could come to fruitful agreement. Morgan Warners: When inclusion becomes relativism
Jones is typical of modern-day evangelicalism, which has abandoned any notion of advocacy for the poor and the misfortunate, These people have constructed a whole cult focused on the proper placement and function of the male sexual organ. and instead concentrates itself on gaining wealth and power. Think Progress » Gainesville, FL rejects homophobic ‘No Homo’ campaign and elects its first openly gay mayor.
The movie, about a Christian fire captain who recommits to his marriage, collected more than $33 million — and was the biggest-grossing indie movie of 2008 — precisely because it was produced by a church in Albany, Ga., which then networked with other evangelicals and with Roman Catholics to create enormous grass-roots demand. RNB Roundup: a compendium of religion news stories
Evangelicals often referred to having accepted Christ (meaning their conversion) as the most consequential moment in their lives.
The only thing faith based about the right wing republicans is they have faith that the modern day money changers in the churches -- the leaders of the televangelical and mega-church ministries have their hands out for billions in funds that the right wing has handed out to buy their support. Republicans�� Biggest Lies
Corporate-owned evangelicalism is the major threat to our survival as a free people. Think Progress » Virginia Delegate Fighting To Invalidate Health Reform: Reform Is ‘Criminal,’ An Attempt To Take ‘Your Soul’
December 19th, 2008 at 3: 48 am uhh, yall know that rev. joseph lowery, of the african american church, and who SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE, will be delivering the benediction after the swearing in right? this is a throwing a little line to the younger evangelicals that like warren stuff, but still keeping one of his earliest supporters (rev lowery) have an equally big spot. Matthew Yglesias » The Warren Factor
Won't go over well with the evangelical vote. landshark First on the CNN Ticker: Florida senator to resign seat
An ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, he previously taught homiletics and liturgics at the University of Notre Dame.
In the last weeks of the campaign, at Rick Warrens bigotfest in Orange County and on MTV Obama loudly trumped the battle cry that would galvanize the mormon, catholic and evangelical vote, empowering their bigotry with 'gawd's in the mix', saying that even gawd was against same sex marriage. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Indeed, evangelical Christians should be foremost in good deeds and leaders in works of charity.

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