Sentences with phrase «biblical idea of man»

Not exact matches

The Old Testament's early idea of man in his social relationships could be inferred on a priori grounds from the early Biblical idea of God.

Indeed, it requires a difficult tour de force of imagination for the modern mind to grasp the ideas of man's inner nature characteristic of Biblical religion.

I have faithfully tried to present an objective, factual picture of unfolding Biblical thought, but it will doubtless be evident that the central ideas of Scripture, in whatever changing categories they may be phrased, seem to me the hope of man's individual and social life.

I think the biblical writings written by men were canonized and catalogued by men... men of their times... and that they had, each one separate and different... ideas of God that they wanted to communicate... and that this served their political, social, cultural, and religious ends, etc..

Niebuhr developed his biblical view of man under the idea that man is both in the image of God, and a self - venerating sinner.

In the case of King Saul (the biblical narrative of preference for those on the «less supportive» side of the support - oppose the president spectrum), the scripture is clear that God wasn't thrilled about the idea of a monarchy in Israel at all, but did indeed choose Saul to be the man to occupy it (1 Samuel 8:1 - 22).

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

The churches I grew up in had and taught very strict and well - defined ideas of what a man and a woman was and should be, and what a biblical man and a biblical woman should be.

In fact, the idea is to convene a meeting with the religious leaders of the main religions to make all people aware of the state of our climate and the tragedy of social exclusion starting from the biblical message that man is the steward of nature and of its environmental and human development according to its potential and not against it, as Paul IV intended.