Sentences with phrase «biblical critical studies»
I believe it requires Exegetical and Hermeneutical gymnastics to actually spout such hateful and hurtful words and shows a great ignorance of any educated Biblical Critical Studies.
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The early pietists did not engage in critical biblical study or directly challenge the literalism of the official teaching.
The history of constantly changing formulations of the Biblical absolute suggests that we need a critical study of how each one fits the needs of those who formulate it.
It allowed me to reconceptualize the study of «women in the Bible,» by moving from what men have said about women to a feminist historical reconstruction of early Christian origins as well as by articulating a feminist critical process for reading and evaluating androcentric biblical texts.
He accepted the historical - critical method of biblical studies, rejected some traditional theological claims on the basis of their incredibility to a critical mind, assumed a religious optimism, championed individualism, accepted evolutionary categories, emphasized ethics, stressed the humanity of Jesus, and recognized the importance of toleration.
As the old models of biblical study break down, Gary - along with his former colleague at Harvard, Jon Levenson - has been at the forefront of efforts to rethink the relations between the historical - critical project and the living realities of contemporary Christian and Jewish faith.
The Historical - Critical method of biblical exegesis has dominated scripture study for more than a hundred years.
One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.
Whereas biblical studies experienced the challenge of modernity in terms of historical - critical approaches to scripture, pastoral theology experienced it in terms of the emergence of psychology and sociology as disciplines.
(See my «The Spiritual Christ,» Journal of Biblical Literature 54:1 - 15; also the «Note on Christology» in my Frontiers of Christian Thinking (1935), and my essay, The Significance of Critical Study of the Gospels for Religious Thought Today,» in the volume presented to Professor Harris Franklin Rall, Theology and Modern Life, ed.
In biblical studies this method of retrieval is exemplified in the historico - critical method which attempts to reconstruct the original setting of the text and the meaning of the author.
Fruitful as this work may be, however, Collins makes the unwarranted assumption that modern biblical study is intrinsically antithetical to theological exegesis when in fact only the historical - critical claim to final interpretive authority contradicts a theological approach.
Similarly, there have always been scholars within the Church, of the highest quality and integrity, who have used the critical tools available to them at the time in their biblical studies.
The appeal to the «superiority» of premodern biblical exegesis is best understood as a protest against the reductionism inherent in the long - standing monopoly of the historical - critical method, not as a rejection of rigorous historical study of the Bible.
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