What specific non-Evangelical beliefs would cause one to be labeled a Neo-Evangelical?
Many claim to be Evangelical, but at what point does abandoning certain Biblical doctrines result in undermining the Evangelical Christian message?
Many claim to be Evangelical, but at what point does abandoning certain Biblical doctrines result in undermining the Evangelical Christian message?
isis's brother
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When you start reasoning for yourself rather than just accepting
all the myths that have been presented to you;
when you start to question some of the stories you have
heard for years, you are in danger of losing your evangelical fervor.
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I don't think it's a question of undermining "the" Evangelical message; rather, it's a case of challenging the notion that one cannot be evangelical without subscribing to a rather calcified set of positions. The problem isn't departure from evangelism, but rather the tendency of certain subgroups to add extra requirements--basically, to demand support for all their views--as a prerequisite for their recognition.
Perhaps this site illustrates the point:
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/neoe.htm
It's a listing that pretty much insists the label "Evangelical" is owned by fundamentalism. It isn't.
wefmeister
http://themoorings.org/doctrine/issues/neo-evangelicalism/doct.html