The fact that King's books are filled with
Biblical references only increases the likelihood that Americans would catapult him to the bestseller lists.
Not exact matches
As far as I know, there is
only one obscure
reference outside of
biblical literature, and even that one is a subject of much debate.
I wonder what would be revealed if scientists would be permitted to study the remains in the tomb at Machpelah... after all, like all things
Biblical, we
only have one reference, and we ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old woma
only have one
reference, and we
ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old woma
ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old woman...
It is instructive in this regard that the actual
biblical noun for love, «ahavah (as in the Song of Songs), appears
only twice in the Psalter, both times in Psalm 109, and both times in
reference to man's relation to man, not God.
As Gutiérez himself affirms, these emphases have been present from the first; a rereading of A Theology of Liberation will not
only uncover a section titled «A Spirituality of Liberation,» but another 400
biblical references with which to wrestle.
Biblical scholars could avoid the hermeneutical question for so long precisely because the scholar, having projected his interest onto the text, could regain it
only vicariously through the «objective» restatement of what lay in the text, without any
reference to himself or his community.
The
only thing that would put us in «good standing» with the ex-gay and similar folk would be to admit we are gay and always will be («reparative» therapy doesn't work and denial ends in repression taking the form of promiscuity), and most of us aren't called to celibacy (in the
only Biblical sense of the term, as Jesus makes
reference to and Paul discusses at length).
It was
only in the late fourth century that the
biblical text «Thou art Peter» had begun to be understood as a
reference to the papacy.
The works on view in Rachel Uffner's booth point slyly to her ongoing fascination with mythologies of all kinds, without making any
reference overly obvious — if you think the piece above refers
only to the
Biblical Eve, you may need to look up the story of a certain Aphrodite and a handsome man named Paris.
I tried to convince Graham Hill to do it in his LifeEdited programme, not
only for the practicality but for the
biblical references going back to going back to Abraham, and Jesus's washing of the feet of his disciples.