Sentences with phrase «biblical scholars when»

Also love how she quotes the book of philip which was rejected by Biblical Scholars when gathering the Bible together.

I was told much the same when I went to talk to a biblical scholar when I was 17.

Not exact matches

Some lose their beliefs in theological college, when they are exposed for the first time to the work of Biblical scholars and sophisticated theologians.

That is, when a scholar translates biblical Hebrew and Greek into English, their translation will often reflect their theological bent.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

When biblical scholars have interested themselves in ethical studies, they have tended to focus on rather specific, narrow topics: social justice, the status of women, war, vengeance, property rights, ecological concern for nature and the like.

The only issues I have are when Bible scholars and Churches are adamant in defending every biblical word as fact and try use it as a crystal ball similar to Nostrodamus disciples.

Having witnessed a time when scholars spiritualized the biblical text, we now see an insistence on materializing it at all costs.

For example, when Berger points out that the puzzles of historical scholarship often lead Biblical theologians to crises of faith he expresses it this way: «I have sometimes asked myself how a gynecologist could manage to have sexual intercourse; by the same token, one could ask how a New Testament scholar could be a Christian.»

(In fact, when I was about 9 or 10, I dreamt of compiling a commentary on the Bible called «The World Commentary» which was written by leading biblical scholars from around the world.

(In this century, scholars have analyzed biblical literature to see what traces remain from the time when the stories and sayings were told before they were written.

In large part, it developed back in the early days of the church when many of the Biblical scholars spoke and wrote Greek.

As biblical scholar James Sanders reminds us, when interpreting the scriptures we are to «theologize before [we] moralize.»

Thus, when teachers of world religions are needed at many undergraduate colleges, they usually appoint either philosophers of religion, historians, biblical scholars, or theologians who happen to have personal interests and perhaps had taken two or three courses in the history of religions or comparative religion.

But when asked to prepare a selection of biblical poems for publication, Kugel a noted scholar and poet, author of the highly praised book The Bible as It Was, and former poetry editor of Harper's magazine agreed to do so.