Sentences with phrase «biblical history experience»
It's encouraging then to come to a passage like Luke 7:18 - 23, where we see one of the greatest men in Biblical history experience a moment of doubt.
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The convictionâ $» endemic among churchfolkâ $» persists that, if problems of misapprehension and misrepresentation are overcome and the gospel can be heard in its own integrity, the gospel will be found attractive by people, become popular, and, even, be a success of some sortâ $ ¦ This idea is both curious and ironical because it is bluntly contradicted in Scripture and in the experience of the continuing biblical witness in history from the event of Pentecost unto the present momentâ $ (William Stringfellow, quoted in A Keeper of the Word, p. 348).
To be deep in history is certainly, for instance, to cease to be an evangelical of the kind who allows experience to trump doctrine, who believes doctrine can be read off the surface of the biblical text, and who sees no theological or existential problem that can not be solved with a proof text or two.
One might have expected that the redemptive history school of biblical theology would have gone on to apply its linear, periodizing scheme to Christian experience.
The biblical history is meaningful because it is related at every point to the fundamental reality which lies behind all history and all human experience, which is, the living God in His Kingdom; and because it moves towards a climax in which the Kingdom of God came upon men with conclusive effect.
The fall of Adam and Eve, the covenants with Israel and its deliverance from bondage, its falling away and punishment through new sufferings, the speaking of the divine word through the prophets, the birth of Christ in human flesh, the life and death of Jesus, the experience of the resurrection, and the history of the Church, the expectation of the final events and the established reign of God in love and peace — all this is the Biblical understanding of what God has done, is doing, and will continue to do for the judgment and redemption of the world.
The contributions on the one hand of Biblical, historical and systematic theology, of history, the sociology of religion and the theology of culture; and on the other, the practical experiments and experiences in ecumenical, national, municipal and parish organization of church life, will, one may hope, eventually be brought together in some kind of temporary historical synthesis.
In its portraits of God's revelation in the mode of «promise,» biblical religion gave rise to the experience of history as an opening of events to an always new future bearing a universal meaning for the events that take place in time.
Yet we must admit that through their work we have learned to take very seriously the total biblical story, reading with deeper insight the truths which are there stated not in propositions but in the events of history and in the response made to those events in the experience of men and women immersed in the ordinary affairs of daily life.
The conditions for experiencing anew the power of a revelatory promise are just as much with us today as during the biblical period of human history.
Tradition and aother biblical writings were given great weight as well, and the bible was not something that was seen as literal or without error... God inspired meant God was the muse or concept that moved people to write about their experiences, as well as a history and a bit of a rule book.
His seminary education (where «I could concentrate on critical biblical scholarship because I already knew the biblical content and narratives so well») and his later faith experiences and human encounters made it possible for him to analyze and interpret his own history in a way that has freed him to preach from the totality of that experience to the totality of human experience, encompassing as it does suffering and celebration, alienation and reconciliation, sin and redemption.
San Diego, CA, USA About Blog Follower of Jesus, J.R. Miller has 15 years of pastoral experience and has authored multiple books on church history, biblical theology, leadership and a devotional for building teams.Educating & Equipping the Next Generation of Leaders.
San Diego, CA, USA About Blog Follower of Jesus, J.R. Miller has 15 years of pastoral experience and has authored multiple books on church history, biblical theology, leadership and a devotional for building teams.Educating & Equipping the Next Generation of Leaders.