Sentences with phrase «biblical case for»

Heavy on science, the film also lays out the biblical case for acting on global warming.

Hospitable Planet: Faith, Action, and Climate Change seeks to fill the gap in religious and secular texts by providing both a compelling biblical case for action on climate change and by identifying substantive measures to mitigate climate change and how to achieve their implementation.

Like The Hole in Our Gospel, it provides a comprehensive biblical case for caring about justice, but with an emphasis on the contrast between Western materialism and worldwide poverty.

Today I consider aspects of Claiborne's biblical case for abolition.

You certainly have your opinion, Doogie, but whether you like it or not, the Biblical case for gay marriage was actually made quite a long time ago.

First, it was to present a biblical case for missional living.

The movement's co-founder Catherine Booth believed that any biblical case for denying women's ministry was a misinterpretation.

«We are blessed with organisations such as the Evangelical Alliance, CARE, Christian Concern and others who seek to present the biblical case for marriage and family clearly and intelligently.»

From Origen's hope that salvation will eventually be received by all, to Karl Rahner's assertion that other religions can serve as pointers to Christ, to Clark Pinnock's biblical case for a more optimistic view of salvation, I've found that tucked away in the dusty corners of Christian libraries is a wealth of scholarship on the subject.

Some, like Yoram Hazony in his» Biblical Case for Limited Government,» have even offered sophisticated (if in the end limited) arguments for why a restricted role for government is itself a Judeo - Christian value.

Not exact matches

These passages suggest that the biblical solution to injustice — racial or otherwise — is not just to pray that people have a change of heart but for people to take responsibility for the societies they have built — or in our case, inherited.

The Case for Christ, as you're probably aware, is based on the true story of Lee Strobel, a Chicago journalist who set out to disprove the biblical account of Jesus and ended up doing the total opposite.

The Law or general biblical principles can never decide individual cases justly because there are always mitigating circumstances calling for compassionate mercy on the practical level.

I prefer to apply lessons learned from a wider range of human experience and condemn those biblical passages as the product of an ignorant, arrogant, bloodthirsty tribe of self - centered nomadic shepherds whose primary characteristics were a raging persecution complex and an unending quest for justification for their major case of the hots for the little girls in the naboring tribes.

Even if one is a biblical literalist, these references do not build an ironclad case for condemnation.

Most Popular Comment: In response to «Esther and Vashti: The Real Story,» Ed wrote, «While biblical literalists can make an interesting case for wifely submission, (provided you first accept their literal perspective) they also need to take into account the story of Ananias and Sapphira - where Sapphira was held accountable separate from her husband.

Israeli archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel announced earlier this week several findings which may contribute toward a positive case for the veracity of biblical history, in particular the question of whether a centralized Israelite kingdom existed during the era of the biblically purported King David....

Gregory's approach to pastoral care of the rich has exceptional subtlety, hinging importantly upon the biblical paradigms of Nathan before David and of David's care for Saul.34 When pastors come before the wealthy as spiritual guides, they do well to remember what Nathan did in the case of the poor man whom the rich man had abused.

Among his publications are: The Scripture Principle, Harper & Row, 1984; Reason Enough: A Case for the Christian Faith, InterVarsity Press, 1980; (editor) Grace Unlimited, Bethany Fellowship, 1975; Truth on Fire, The Message of Galatians, Baker Book House, 1972, Biblical Revelation, Moody Press, 1971, Set Forth Your Case, Craig, 1968; and A Defense of Biblical Infallibility, Presbyterian and Reformed, 1967.

For analyses of the biblical interpretation on both sides, see Willard M. Swartley, Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women: Case Issues in Biblical Interpretation (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1983), pp. 152 - 191; Robert K. Johnston, Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979), PP. biblical interpretation on both sides, see Willard M. Swartley, Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women: Case Issues in Biblical Interpretation (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1983), pp. 152 - 191; Robert K. Johnston, Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979), PP. Biblical Interpretation (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1983), pp. 152 - 191; Robert K. Johnston, Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979), PP. Biblical Authority in Practice (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979), PP. 48 - 76.

The secret call as always remains important, but in the conception of the ministry that is emerging out of the Biblical and systematic theology of the day and out of the personal reflections of young people and their pastors, the divine action whereby men are chosen for their station and calling is less spiritualistically understood than was the case for the past hundred years.

In the case of King Saul (the biblical narrative of preference for those on the «less supportive» side of the support - oppose the president spectrum), the scripture is clear that God wasn't thrilled about the idea of a monarchy in Israel at all, but did indeed choose Saul to be the man to occupy it (1 Samuel 8:1 - 22).

These distinctions appear in various forms in Kierkegaard, Cullman, Minear, Niebuhr, and Tillich, and in each case they are used for the interpretation of the Biblical world view.

For me the difference between the biblical gospels and the later Gnostic gospels was obvious when I read them, even before I was a believer; and there are plenty of reasonable arguments for the case that the four gospels of the Bible are the most accurate historical accounts that we have of Jesus» liFor me the difference between the biblical gospels and the later Gnostic gospels was obvious when I read them, even before I was a believer; and there are plenty of reasonable arguments for the case that the four gospels of the Bible are the most accurate historical accounts that we have of Jesus» lifor the case that the four gospels of the Bible are the most accurate historical accounts that we have of Jesus» life.

Coupled with some of the tools of biblical criticism (such as the criteria of Embarrassment, Double Discontinuity and Multiple Attestation), he seeks to demonstrate the case for the origin of the Johannine tradition in the words and actions of the historical Jesus, as passed on by eyewitness accounts and possibly by John the son of Zebedee himself.

Having made the case for a generic intelligent agent, however, one may then switch categories from science to apologetics, and propose the biblical God as the best candidate, as Paul did in Acts 17 when he proposed to tell the Athenians the identity of the «unknown god.»

In any case, we can see that his metaphors for God's active presence enlarged upon and enriched the biblical tradition, rather than being simply derivative.

For explorations in this regard, see Walter Brueggemann,» «Vine and Fig Tree»: A Case Study,» Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 43, 1981, 188 - 204, and «Theological Education: Healing the Blind Beggar,» Christian Century, 103, 1986, 114 - 16.

Finite spirit envisaged from the beginning and from its end, at least in the case of man, is «spirit in the world» or «cosmic spirit» and even with regard to the angels it will be appropriate for a Christian, and in the first place for a biblical, theology to see their distinction from mankind within this «cosmic spirituality» and not outside it or in contrast to it.

For my Evangelicals brothers who remain unconvinced and still believe adultery is a biblical justification for divorce, pastoral integrity seems to demand you either inform those you marry that you will not hold them to their vows in cases of unfaithfulness, or you instruct the couple to use conditional wording in their voFor my Evangelicals brothers who remain unconvinced and still believe adultery is a biblical justification for divorce, pastoral integrity seems to demand you either inform those you marry that you will not hold them to their vows in cases of unfaithfulness, or you instruct the couple to use conditional wording in their vofor divorce, pastoral integrity seems to demand you either inform those you marry that you will not hold them to their vows in cases of unfaithfulness, or you instruct the couple to use conditional wording in their vows.

(See S. J. Case, «Kúpios as a Title for Christ,» Journal of Biblical Literature, XXVI (1907), 151 ff.; and The Evolution of Early Christianity, pp. 116 ff.

One rather begins with the Creator and the order of creation («Nature and Nature's God»)- in the case of the Founders, the biblical God, even if for Jefferson and a few others attenuated by Enlightenment rationalism - from which understanding certain truths are established as self - evident.

As you search the Scriptures, here are a few books I would recommend for those embarking on learning in this particular area as companions are: — «Changing My Mind» by David Gushee; — «Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays vs. Christians Debate» by Justin Lee; — «A Letter to My Congregation: An Evangelical Pastor's Path to Embracing Those Who are Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Into the Company of Jesus» by Ken Wilson; and — «God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same - Sex Relationships» by Matthew Vines.

Overcoming Evil God's Way: The Biblical and Historical Case for Nonresistance by Stephen Russell

Sadly the church (as the religious in the times of Jesus) has those that like the status but neglect the «true religion» in the biblical case of looking after widows and orphans or caring for the abused.

Although that might appear to be a conclusion of mere practical reason, first reached by the so - called Enlightenment, there is also a case to be made for it in terms of biblical Christianity as well as «natural law» or secular utilitarianism.

Also in the case of my grandmother who has passed, her Jesus she believed in isn't the biblical Jesus, God incarnate so even if she believed in the Mormon jesus and that alone for eternal life does that save her?

Criticism of the term will not and probably should not abolish its use (though I, for one, believe a better historical case can be made for referring to «the biblical tradition»), but it may encourage citizens to regard it with suspicion.

Yet Jefferson's hope for a national turn to Unitarianism as the dominant religion, a turn that would have integrated public theology and the formal civil religion much more intimately than was actually the case, was disappointed and public theology was carried out predominantly in terms of biblical symbolism.

I'm on the fence on this one at the moment, but do think that there is a case to be made for it in certain biblical instances, but perhaps not all.

The hunting up of biblical or theological foundations for something (in this case optimism) that has already taken place is not a thing I wish to do here.

Robinson, in his address as outgoing president of the Society of Biblical Literature in December 1981, presented a detailed case for the argument that the earliest resurrection traditions were luminous appearances of Jesus, while stories of physical resurrection were secondary.

Similarly, consider the case of the couple who were successfully prosecuted for refusing to grant a room to a homosexual couple on the grounds that homosexual practice is a sin according to biblical texts.

I don't normally post on Sundays, or even late evenings for that matter but I wanted to leave 3 biblical scripture verses on encouragement that I have really needed to read and have sink in lately and I thought I would share them in case you were feeling discouraged.

That's the case with actors Ray Winstone and Emma Watson, who are up for roles in Darren Aronofsky's Biblical epic Noah.

The Ontario Divisional Court heard a case in which a man sought an exemption to having a digital photograph taken for a drivers licence on the basis that the digital photo process could meet the biblical description of the mark of the beast: http://canlii.ca/t/1jm4v So I am not aware of specific objections, but I imagine there are some out there.