Sentences with phrase «biblical ideas of»

The book begins, properly, with Sacred Scripture, «the soul of theology», and examines biblical ideas of intercession, concluding that «the New Testament encourages human beings to intercede for each other, a possibility precisely because of the mediation or intercession of Christ.

The basis of Biblical ideas of substitution — one bearing the sin and penalty of all — was corporate personality, where in deepest earnest the sin of one was regarded as being the sin of all, the punishment due to one as being due to all, and the sacrifice of one, as in the case of Jephthah's daughter, as being offered by all.

Biblical ideas of atonement root back in this basic soil and stem out from it; and while the development later carried them to branches far distant from the roots, there is no understanding the topmost twig — for example, «as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive» --(I Corinthians 15:22.)

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.

And indeed, as theologian Charles McCoy emphasizes in discussing the biblical idea of covenant, God is always faithful (CCE 355 - 375).

The biblical idea of covenant embraced by earlier Americans is something deeper and more profound and more binding than a contract; it also engages another party, a party who transcends the agreements that we strike among ourselves.

But in Beyond Humanism and elsewhere he expresses the idea that the new conception of God is not only philosophically superior to that of classical philosophies and theologies, it is also theologically and religiously more adequate in that it is much more compatible with the Biblical idea of God as love.

«Now with that out of the picture, and people getting the impression that they have a right to perfect certitude and perfect clarity and perfect order every step of the way, you've basically — I'm gonna say it strongly — you've basically destroyed the biblical idea of faith to begin with.»

Maimonides» attempt to expunge anthropomorphism thus can not be reconciled with this biblical idea of a God who showed an impassioned love for one particular human being and his descendants.

The Biblical idea of the final end envisions a community of persons united to each other in mutual love and to God in loving adoration.

We are here close to the biblical idea of «patience» (hypomone), resistance.

Chuck roots his missional ideas in what he sees as the biblical idea of mission.

The genuinely biblical idea of government does not point to modern democratic society but to Brigham Young and the theocracy of the Mormons.

The biblical idea of revelation as God's promise has both auditory and visual overtones.

It's all about encouraging couples to make a formal commitment to one another in exactly the same way you would make the Biblical idea of covenant.»

It was a controversial interpretation for many, as it contradicted religious beliefs about human origins; the short, stocky limb bones and the skull's oversized brow suggested an ape - like ancestor that did not fit in with the biblical idea of God's creation.

It challenges students to think about popular images of love and how this compares with the Biblical idea of agape.

A global Iriai is deeply poetic in comparison, it conjures the biblical idea of a stewardship of nature — but using the most modern ideas, methods and technologies.

Not exact matches

Lance Gilman, owner of the Mustang Ranch and the promoter behind Reno's bid, hatched the idea for a «biblical» armada of graders and earthmovers to show how quickly he could prep his site.

Lance Gilman, owner of the Mustang Ranch and the promoter behind Reno's bid, hatched the idea for a «biblical» armada of graders and earthmovers to show how quickly he could prep his site.Photo by Winni Wintermeyer for Fortune

Read the actual history of the doctrine of «hell» and you will see that it is NOT a biblical idea.

The crucial point to be attended to here is that, when the idea of a physical resurrection finally appears (incipiently in Ezekiel and fully in Daniel), it builds on a biblical foundation.

These are in no way original ideas or thoughts from Calvin, simply the reiteration of the biblical writers expression of the sovereignty of God.

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).

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

The atheists are fighting a campaign against Fundamentalist Christians who are trying to run for President of the United States and change our laws to suit their ridiculous biblical ideas.

The idea embodied in this scripture is why Mormons don't accept the exra - Biblical creeds and some of the mainstream orthodoxy of today.

The idea's presented in this article does not embody the biblical ideal of the church as a community.

At the other extreme are theologies that take the best of contemporary thought as normative and then explain what sense can be made of basic biblical ideas in this context.

And, Jeremy, would you please look at topic of commonly - heard ideas that may or may not have biblical basis — one mentioned in these comments — is that God chooses the time of our death.

It is probable that some prejudice against biblical criticism has been aroused among religious persons by this half - conscious association of ideas.

We had more than 300 people apply to be part of the launch team for A Year of Biblical Womanhood, and because I absolutely hate not including everyone — especially when just about everyone had amazing ideas and meaningful words of encouragement — I've left the selection process to my team at Thomas Nelson.

My disagreements with the five points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly with their theology or understanding of Biblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etBiblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etbiblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etc, etc..

Downing takes it a step further and says, «it is no coincidence that the concept of biblical inerrancy developed in nineteenth - century England almost simultaneously with Darwin's idea of natural selection: both were influenced by Enlightenment empiricism.»

Or the biblical writers» idea of what is a good person?

Judged by the dominant biblical understanding of divine transcendence, Otto's idea of the Holy (which Berger adopts) and Berger's sacred canopy are not transcendent at all!

Biblical spirituality inculcated the idea of suffering as redemptive, and invited a response of altruistic caring from others.

As such, it is never merely the repetition of biblical ideas alone, even for those holding to the sole and binding authority of Scripture as God's revelation.

Of the three books, it may be the most practical, though the other two lay the biblical and theological groundwork for the ideas in this book.

Yet the early Church itself, when it departed from biblical idiom at the Council of Nicea and used for theological purposes a non-biblical word, homo - ousion, as the guarantor of true biblical meaning, gave Christians in later days a charter for translation — provided always that it is the gospel, its setting and its significance, that we are translating, and not some bright and novel ideas of our own.

can any catholic provide me with any prayer from the bible to a deceased person in heaven, or can you provide me a biblical example of the idea of intercession of prayers?

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.

So, contrary to what the cartoon suggests, the ONLY reason people promote the idea of sexual purity is because of biblical authority.

All of this — his deeply felt ideas, his biblical knowledge, his autodidactical education, and his convoluting development of a theme — shows to clear effect in what most critics think his greatest story, «Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street.»

Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»

White - head has shown us the powerful effects over two millenia of Plato's doctrine of the soul, especially as it was combined with Biblical ideas.36 The relevance of his thought, judged by immediate consequences, was all too limited.

Let me know if you have any ideas or questions, and stay tuned for Mimi Haddad, president of Christians for Biblical Equality.

So this is my idea for a book, A Year of Biblical Manhood.

Having, therefore, lived for years with Biblical scholars as my friends and colleagues and in the classroom having dealt with students, trying to gain a coherent and usable understanding of the Bible for practical purposes, I have dared the attempt to put together developments of ideas which the separate Biblical disciplines leave apart.

In so doing they reject a biblical conception of God and the idea of obedience to God as the chief form of religious action.