{"quotes":[{"text":"Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship.'~R. Alan Woods [2013].","author":"R. Alan Woods","tags":["discipleship","duna","evangelicalism","faith","faith-reason","mis","r-alan-woods","reason","reasoning","supernatural","supernaturally","theology"],"id":51749,"author_id":"R.+Alan+Woods"},{"text":"As Peter Berger has noted, the strategy of apologizing for Christian faith by trying to demonstrate its social utility is always eventually self-liquidating. Sooner of later people realize that a great many of the supposedly practical and secular benefits of the Christian religion can be had more easily without religion...The logic of practical atheism may well be more deeply ingrained in the evangelical tradition than conservatives perhaps have realized.","author":"Craig M. Gay","tags":["apologetics","atheism","evangelicalism"],"id":87408,"author_id":"Craig+M.+Gay"},{"text":"Pastor Ted and other evangelical pastors I hear about in the media seem to perceive just about everything to be a threat against Christianity. Evolution is a threat. Gay marriage is a threat. A swear word uttered accidentally on television is a threat. Democrats are a threat. And so on.I don't see how any of these things pose a threat against Christianity. If someone disagrees with you about politics, or social issues, or the matter of origins, isn't that just democracy and free speech in action? How do opposing viewpoints constitute a threat?","author":"Hemant Mehta","tags":["christianity","evangelicalism","politics"],"id":94125,"author_id":"Hemant+Mehta"},{"text":"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["9-11","9-11-01","99-percent","atheism","evangelicalism","fox-news","future-prediction","globalism","media","media-barons","media-of-the-united-states","mysticism","nostradamus","occupy-wall-street","outsourcing","prediction","predictions","proud-ignorance","reality-tv","reason","rupert-murdoch"],"id":128189,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"If Roman Catholic Christianity has always struggled with the threat of works righteousness, Reformed Protestantism has always struggled with the threat of cheap grace. For many, if not the majority of Protestants, God's love and acceptance do not lead to personal transformation. Evangelical formation often involves seeking to reestablish a pattern of maturing behaviour that should be integral to one's conversion. So both traditions can be challenged on whether there is a genuinely helpful connection between conversion and transformation.","author":"Gordon T. Smith","tags":["cheap-grace","conversion","evangelicalism","protestantism","roman-catholicism","transformation","works-righteousness"],"id":157172,"author_id":"Gordon+T.+Smith"},{"text":"This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.","author":"Melanie Ross","tags":["christianity","church","ecumenism","evangelicalism","protestantism"],"id":204858,"author_id":"Melanie+Ross"},{"text":"In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual pursuits and concerns over doctrine. Essentially, sentimentality represents an abandonment of theology and critical introspection in popular evangelicalism. Instead of crafting intellectual responses to the challenges to evangelicalism, popular evangelicals appeal to the power of feeling as an authority to counteract science and criticism of the Bible. They offer their audiences the opportunity to FEEL that evangelicalism is right rather than asking them to accept the veracity of doctrinal positions of evangelicalism.","author":"Todd M. Brenneman","tags":["ity","christianity","emotion","evangelicalism","evangelicals","persuasion","sentimentality"],"id":219728,"author_id":"Todd+M.+Brenneman"},{"text":"His [brother in law Jim Hampson] appointment to the Episcopal parish in Wenham, near Gordon College brought them in close touch with leading evangelical faculty members in their pews and church leadership, including Elizabeth Elliot and Addison Leitch. They were instrumental in drawing Jim and and Sarah into the cutting edge of evangelical intellectual leadership, with friendships with Tom Howard and J.I. Packer. My ongoing relationship with Jim Packer, FitzSimons Allison and many other brilliant Anglican evangelicals would not have happened without Jim Hampson. His early influence on me in my transition from modern to classic Christian teaching was immense. While I was trying to demythologize Scripture, he was taking its plain meaning seriously. His strong preaching led him to become one of the founding sponsors and supporters of Trinity School of Ministry in Abridge, Pennsylvania...","author":"Thomas C. Oden","tags":["addison-leitch","bible-interpretation","conversion","demythologizing","elizabeth-elliott","evangelicalism"],"id":250800,"author_id":"Thomas+C.+Oden"},{"text":"As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, 'the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...For religious liberals and many evangelicals.","author":"Mark Galli","tags":["american-culture","evangelicalism","god","liberalism"],"id":261274,"author_id":"Mark+Galli"},{"text":"For a Catholic understanding of the faith there is no reason why the basic concern of Evangelical Christianity as it comes to expression in the three “only's” should have no place in the Catholic Church. Accepted as basic and ultimate formulas of Christianity, they do not have to lead a person out of the Catholic Church. . . . They can call the attention of the Catholic church again and again to the fact that grace alone and faith alone really are what saves, and that with all our maneuvering through the history of dogma and the teaching office, we Catholic Christians must find our way back to the sources again and again, back to the primary origins of Holy Scripture and all the more so of the Holy Spirit.","author":"Karl Rahner","tags":["catholicism","ecumenism","evangelicalism","faith-alone","grace-alone","salvation","scripture-alone","the-bible","the-holy-spirit"],"id":275083,"author_id":"Karl+Rahner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}