Sentences with phrase «biblical ethics do»
Biblical ethics do not sort neatly into «conservative» and «progressive» circles, even less so among Canadian Christians than our American counterparts.
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But my experience and from things I read, even on this blog site, most, not all, but most don't like Churches teaching biblical morals and ethics.
With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).
It would exercise some of the same freedom which Paul's and the other NT letters do when they refrain from any nostalgic attempts to play Galilee into their theology by transforming the teaching of Jesus» earthly ministry into a system of theology and ethics [Krister Stendahl: «Biblical Theology, Contemporary,» Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962), I, 428].
We read the Bible «through the Jesus lens» — which looks suspiciously like it means using the parts of the Gospels that we like, with the awkward bits carefully screened out, which enables us to disagree with the biblical texts on God, history, ethics and so on, even when Jesus didn't (Luke 17:27 - 32 is an interesting example).
As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.
The Biblical writers do not understand social ethics in terms of one or the other of these human values, but in terms of the nature and activity of God who demonstrated their interconnectedness and indissolubility.
In the words of one older Catholic biblical scholar to this writer, «But did Paul have any ethics?»
Did ancient culture impact the biblical ethics of slavery but not that of women?
Finally, it is an error because the reason the Christian does not advocate or practice shooting abortionists is grounded in biblical ethics, rather than some finger — in — the — breeze sense of the political or social climate.