Sentences with phrase «biblical scholarship as»

Four deleted scenes featuring an option of a joint commentary by Lussier and Soisson are likewise useless in context, but do further the idea that the filmmakers really believed that they were involved in something of value not only to vampire lore, but to biblical scholarship as well.

The Pharisees continue to be represented in theology and biblical scholarship as the enemies of Jesus» teaching.

modern Biblical scholarship as we know it wouldn't exist.

Not exact matches

Biblical interpretation naturally absorbs a lot of ink; but «modern biblical scholars» will be surprised to learn that many of them regard miracle stories as fictions «designed to influence the common folk of an ancient and more simple time»: a view closer to old - fashioned anticlericalism of Thomas Paine's vintage than modern scholarship even of a radicalBiblical interpretation naturally absorbs a lot of ink; but «modern biblical scholars» will be surprised to learn that many of them regard miracle stories as fictions «designed to influence the common folk of an ancient and more simple time»: a view closer to old - fashioned anticlericalism of Thomas Paine's vintage than modern scholarship even of a radicalbiblical scholars» will be surprised to learn that many of them regard miracle stories as fictions «designed to influence the common folk of an ancient and more simple time»: a view closer to old - fashioned anticlericalism of Thomas Paine's vintage than modern scholarship even of a radical stripe.

to the new intellectual environment, combined with the fact that Wesley did seem easily to appropriate the emerging biblical scholarship of his day, are grounds for suggesting that the Wesleyan tradition is more appropriately viewed as non-fundamentalist, even among those who wish to live in more direct continuity with the spiritual dynamic of the founder.

It was in this way that fundamentalism, under the guise of evangelicalism, was becoming more dominant in the churches at the very same time as academic theology and biblical scholarship were becoming more radical.

This can be regarded as a form of liberal theology; so at this point I will simply argue that Wesley would support no holds barred biblical scholarship and rethink his teaching in its light.

For many years, I felt that part of my call as a writer and blogger of faith was to be a different sort of evangelical, to advocate for things like gender equality, respect for LGBT people, and acceptance of science and biblical scholarship within my community.

From Origen's hope that salvation will eventually be received by all, to Karl Rahner's assertion that other religions can serve as pointers to Christ, to Clark Pinnock's biblical case for a more optimistic view of salvation, I've found that tucked away in the dusty corners of Christian libraries is a wealth of scholarship on the subject.

Point being, here's the far left fringe of biblical scholarship — and you regard him as winking at your position (when he's giving a scathing treatment of it).

I do the best dog - and - pony show I know how to do, not only to make that point of view as clear as I can but exciting with vignettes from the history of biblical scholarship, the conflicts, and so forth.

As professional biblical scholarship stands now, few would argue that the gospel accounts are 100 % accurate, and that nothing was borrowed from other faiths and mythologies.

To suggest as some do, that this was unfermented «new wine» is contrary to biblical scholarship.

The authors often cite scripture, but, as in this case, do not make their hermeneutic explicit, seeming to apply a very literalistic method without much benefit from biblical scholarship.

Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship with the greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention with their own people; and, on the other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the great prophets who follow him and who, essentially, continue the work he began.

It has emerged in part as a way for the guild of biblical scholarship to respond to a number of stimuli: (1) the increasing charges by many theologians, lay and professional, that biblical criticism has...

Within the Church, «scientific» exegesis has often been regarded as the gold standard of serious biblical scholarship, and modern Christians are often as contemptuous of premodern allegory, figural exegesis, and typology as your neighborhood philosophe.

It's as if they are implying that the collective scholarship of the various teams of biblical interpreters was somehow insufficient, naive, biased or at the very least less informed than their own interpretation of the word.

The narrator, whom biblical scholarship generally identifies as the Yahwist, is concerned to show that through sin both the lower and higher creation carry a divine curse.

As one of the journal's part - time editors, he used the pages of the Christian Oracle to educate readers about developments in biblical scholarship.

In most of the denominations there is still a considerable number of biblical literalists (self - styled conservatives but called fundamentalists by others) who refuse to accept the views of modern historical and textual scholarship as to the true meanings of the Bible.

Biblical scholarship of the last half of the 19th century has made it possible to arrange the texts in approximate chronological order as well as develop broad chronological outlines.

For a generation or more biblical scholarship has been committed to what is known as the historical method — that is, to the aim of seeing the books of the Bible in their historical setting and understanding them as nearly as possible in the way their writers and first readers understood them.

This is such a truism that one is almost ashamed to pen the words, and yet it remains a fact that, in a great deal of the more conservative biblical scholarship, it does seem to be assumed that the appeal to factual accuracy would he as valid and important a factor in the case of ancient Near Eastern religious texts as it would be in a modern western court of law or in a somewhat literally - minded western congregation.

The biblical scholarship of modernity, insofar as it continues to be captive to the dualism of Kantian epistemology, is another kind of Babylonian captivity, which debars the signs of identification and recognition by which the risen Jesus made himself known.

This aroused a veritable furor in the world of scholarship and of religion, for, as indicated above, it proved to be very similar in some respects to the story in Biblical Genesis.

While there are excellent and well - stated «conservative positions» with regard to certain biblical issues, there is, no such thing as an «evangelical body of scholarship» which constitutes anything like a rival «school» to mainstream scholarship.

First of all, there is very little theology in America today: dogmatic theology has virtually disappeared, biblical scholarship is largely archeological and philological, church history barely maintains its existence as a discipline; and, in terms of German influences, Bultmann has replaced Barth as the guiding light of the younger theologians.

As the chapter continues, Wright tackles postmodern scholarship, which he believes has offered some helpful critiques of Enlightenment assumptions while providing useful analyses of how certain texts might be received by particular groups, but which tends to veer into the complete dismissal of large portions of the biblical text.

Embarrassingly poor biblical scholarship tainted by the current culture... I'd like to know where this «scholar» went to seminary as a black list item for future scholars... incredible, really!

Recent biblical scholarship instructs us that Jesus» reference to God as «Abba,» which is a trust - filled term of address to one's «father,» a name of intimacy and deep affection, already contains the nucleus of the Christian revelation.

But it was also the case that, as Alter moved from making brilliant observations about a small selection of texts to writing large commentaries on entire biblical books, the weaknesses of his scholarship became more visible.

I realize this may not be clear or meaninful to some readers and I can't take the space here to go into it other than to say that a good segment of biblical scholarship for a couple decades at least, has properly broadened its pursuits in an interdisciplinary manner, into probing for better understandings of the nature and formative, growth processes of the earliest groups of Jesus followers and how they ultimately became Jewish Christian groups, or started as mixed Jewish / Gentile groups (as via Paul, et al.).

In this respect, his approach is very different from that of another distinguished literary critic, Robert Alter, author of The Art of Biblical Narrative, who deprecates what he calls the excavative techniques of professional biblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its finBiblical Narrative, who deprecates what he calls the excavative techniques of professional biblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its finbiblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its final form.

Before continuing to review the discussion as it has been carried on within Protestant theological circles, we may perhaps be permitted a brief excursus into the realm of Roman Catholic biblical scholarship, for Strauss's book produced an immediate reaction from a Roman Catholic New Testament professor in which what has come to be, to the best of our knowledge, the standard Roman Catholic viewpoint, was developed.

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.

He reports on the renewal of biblical scholarship within Catholicism and the emergence of a new attitude to past formulations such as those of the Council of Trent.

He, as the play discussed, denied the reality of the trinity and this is a conclusion he probably came to by doing his own biblical scholarship.

This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.

This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.

On the apocalyptic generally, it's a much debated term in biblical scholarship (it originates there, as it describes various passages in the book of Daniel, attributed to Jesus in the gospels and of course the book of Revelation).

This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.

This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.