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Truth Aficionado
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Posted 5/2/2008 10:28 PM (GMT -6)

"Conservative Christian leaders who believe the word "evangelical" has lost its religious meaning plan to release a starkly self-critical document saying the movement has become too political and has diminished the Gospel through its approach to the culture wars."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/02/evangelicals.ap/index.html

PotOnWheel
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Posted 5/3/2008 11:05 AM (GMT -6)

Makes sense.

Those were the criticisms towards the social gospel that the little known group calling themselves Evangelicals had in the 1960s. I remember reading the same.

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Tom
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Posted 5/4/2008 3:08 AM (GMT -6)

Ask ten evangelicals what the non-negotiable, core beliefs/values of Evangelicalism are and you'll get ten different answers; proof that it's a virtually meaningless term.

T

Post Edited (Tom) : 5/4/2008 9:06:28 AM (GMT-5)

PotOnWheel
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Posted 5/4/2008 6:58 AM (GMT -6)

Ask any evangelical in the 1920's (my parents), or in the 1890's (my grandparents and great grandparents), and you would get a much tighter spread of anwsers. In Carter's day it was an unknown to the greater culture. The inward nature of the transformation of the gospel was the focus, with a tight correspondance to outward transformation.

Tom said...
Ask ten evangelicals what the non-negotiable, core beliefs/values of Evangelicalism are and you'll get ten different answers; proof that it's a virtually meaningness term.

T

http://seminary.bethel.edu/catalog/profile/history.html

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Posted 10/24/2008 11:58 PM (GMT -6)

Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama

"Young evangelicals are tired _ like most people at this point in the election _ and rhetoric which is fear-based, strong-arms the listener, and states opinion as fact will only polarize rather than further the informed, balanced discussion that younger voters are hungry for."

These types of attacks are supported by James Dobson, yeah the same James Dobson that refused to sign the Evangelical Manifesto.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others."

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