Sentences with phrase «biblical history moves»

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Christian biblical scholars have also shown a vibrant new interest in the historical Jesus, much of it utilizing an approach to Christologv «from below,» i.e., an understanding that begins with the humanity and ministry of Jesus, who, precisely as a figure embedded in history, moves toward God and lives as one wholly centered in God.

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 scientific beginning is one from which development moves farther and farther away, the biblical is one which is only to be recovered again in the course of history.

A note which permeates biblical thinking, in contrast with the cyclical or static views often found in other faiths, is that all history moves toward the fulfillment of a divine purpose — toward an end in the double sense of both finish and fulfillment.

The kingdom concept is rooted in the biblical view of history, with its forward - moving stream of events under the rulership of the sovereign, righteous God.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

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.

Nevertheless, the substance of biblical faith allows us to say, at the very least, the following: without a trust in the promise of a meaningful and unimaginably fulfilling future, the move into history would be intolerable.

It is a logic which, as we shall see, moves us in the course of the biblical narrative from creation to history, from first things to human politics.