For good or for ill. In this reading, the Bible does not have a category for a good leader with bad personal character. Nor does it seem to imagine that a nation can remain untainted by the perceived moral failures of its leaders. Some theologians have argued that he appropriates Christianity for purposes that are contrary to its teachings. Even from a conservative evangelical perspective, the gains of a Trump presidency are increasingly being weighed against the losses.
The data, however, suggest a growing divide among evangelicals, with reluctant Trump voters becoming a thing of the past. Most conservative evangelicals will vote for Trump and will do so enthusiastically.
But a significant minority have seemingly concluded that he is in fact the worse of two evils, and they will either not vote or vote for a candidate who is not a Republican — perhaps for the first time in their lives.
Festival of Social Science — Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. They called their effort New Evangelicalism. The movement, which began to take shape in the late nineteen-forties, came to displace mainline Protestantism as the dominant religious force in the United States.
He suggests that evangelicals interested in glorifying God through their thought might be forced to draw on ideas from other traditions——mainline Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, or perhaps Eastern Orthodoxy.
During the Trump era, it became clear that the wasting of the evangelical mind could even have dire consequences on American democracy. For Christian thinking to flourish, Noll argues that evangelicals must be willing to exchange some of the cultural and theological ornamentation that mark their movement for what is truly indispensable.
And, in place of a belief that a life devoted to God must begin with a sudden, life-changing religious experience, evangelicals should understand that it can unfold in a more gradual process. Recently, some pastors and other evangelical leaders have begun to express alarm at how unmoored some members of their congregations have become.
More leaders in the American church need to recognize the emergency, but, in order for evangelicals to rescue the life of the mind in their midst, they need to acknowledge that the church is missing a vital aspect of worshipping God: understanding the world He made.
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