Recent Threads

Tue Sep 11 09:30:30 PDT 2007

	Sorry I'd forgotten to include the link in the original post;
but a quick google search for "For the purposes of the research, a
biblical worldview was defined" found it again for me, at
http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=154 .

	Eugene

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> Could you please send a specific link for where on the Barna 
> website you found this?  Thanks!
> 
> 
> Quoting "Volokh, Eugene" <VOLOKH at law.ucla.edu>:
> 
> > 	I should note that the study defined "Biblical worldview" quite
> > narrowly; I couldn't find the exact text, but the Barna site reports
> > that "For the purposes of the research, a biblical 
> worldview was defined
> > as believing that absolute moral truths exist; that such truth is
> > defined by the Bible; and firm belief in six specific 
> religious views.
> > Those views were that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life; God is the
> > all-powerful and all-knowing Creator of the universe and He 
> stills rules
> > it today; salvation is a gift from God and cannot be 
> earned; Satan is
> > real; a Christian has a responsibility to share their faith 
> in Christ
> > with other people; and the Bible is accurate in all of its 
> teachings."
> > I am surely no expert on Christian theology, but I take it that many
> > people who think they have a Biblical worldview -- and obviously,
> > according to the study, about 90% of those who see 
> themselves as solid
> > evangelical Christians -- may differ on some matters, such as the
> > reality of Satan.  Or am I mistaken?
> >
> > 	Eugene
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
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> James Manning
> > 	Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 5:03 PM
> > 	To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
> > 	Subject: RE: Recent Threads
> >
> >
> > 	Thanks very much to all for your comments. I read and save them
> > all as part of my undergraduate studies, while completing my senior
> > thesis on evangelical Christian participants in 
> conservative politics.
> >
> > 	I wanted to note that 7-14% having no religious affiliation, as
> > reported at UC Berkely, and the 10.8% figure at Baylor is kind of
> > cutting around the edges a much larger issue.
> >
> > 	A recent study by the Barna Research Group reports that "only
> > nine percent of self proclaiming born again Christians hold 
> a Biblical
> > worldview." While at the same time, evangelical leaders like David
> > Wheaton, Josh McDowell, and Brannon Howse are reporting an attrition
> > rate of anywhere from 50-70% of evangelical Christian youth 
> after they
> > leave their parents' households.
> >
> > 	This touches on one of the premises of my research.
> > Specifically, that there is the lack of competitiveness of 
> ideas (that
> > originate in rigorously literal exegesis of scripture) in the modern
> > market of largely secular ideas. And that an attempt to 
> overcome this
> > competitive failure is one of the driving forces behind evangelical
> > Christian political movements and legislation, that 
> ultimately wind up
> > as policy under discussion in forums like this Email list.
> >
> > 	On a separate subject, I am finding that while Christian
> > Reconstructionists are indeed a very small portion of conservative
> > Christians, they are growing rapidly as intellectual leaders among
> > evangelicals, through entities such as Wall Builders and 
> the Discovery
> > Institute.
> >
> > 	Further, I am discovering that, while there is a wide and
> > growing exegetical gulf between dominionist/reconstructionists like
> > David Barton, D James Kennedy, and Hank Hanegraaff and 
> those that assert
> > Darbyite premillineal dispensationalism (Tim LaHaye, Pat 
> Robertson, John
> > Hagee, et al), evangelical conservatives have absolutely no problem
> > showing up on the same side of the ballot box. That comes 
> in spite of
> > escatological doctrines that are otherwise diametrically 
> opposed to each
> > other.
> >
> > 	As an undergraduate, I do not mind so much that discussion tends
> > to stray at times. But I was surprised when the traffic on 
> the list got
> > so lively and elevated that nobody noted the passing of 
> Rev. D. James
> > Kennedy.
> >
> > 	James Manning
> > 	Murray State University senior
> > 	Memphis, Tennessee
> >
> > 	*******************
> > 	excerpts from the thread follow below...
> >
> > 	Douglas Laycock <laycockd at umich.edu> wrote
> >
> > 	Michael Hout and Claude Fischer at Berkely report a number of
> > studies with similar results, showing that people reporting 
> no religious
> > preference doubled from 7% to 14% in the 90s.  Why More 
> Americans Have
> > No Religious Preference: Politics and Generations, 67 Am. 
> Soc. Rev. 165
> > (2002).
> >
> > 	Quoting Newsom Michael <mnewsom at law.howard.edu>:
> >
> > 	I wonder if there is a "surge" of people reporting no religion.
> > The Baylor study -- an extraordinary piece of social science work --
> > that came out a year ago shows that 89.2% of Americans have 
> a religious
> > affiliation, and of the remaining 10.8%, the study 
> characterizes them as
> > "persons without a religious preference, denomination, or place of
> > worship."
> >
> > 	Douglas Laycock <laycockd at umich.edu> wrote
> >
> > 	It's not a reaction to the Christian Reconstructionists, who are
> > numerically trivial.  But many of the folks having the 
> reaction can't
> > tell the difference between the conservative values voters and the
> > Christian Reconstructionists.
> >
> >
> >
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