Sentences with phrase «biblical understanding of»

Basic Training is a one - day course to deepen your Biblical understanding of foster care and adoption.

8/12/2012: The Biblical Understanding of Lifelong Soul (Psuche) Health Sunday Night Sermon The River Church — Fresno, California

While the term «Christian Counseling» has been defined in multiple ways, our approach when working with Christians is to integrate a biblical understanding of human nature and growth with scientifically - based psychotherapy approaches.

This forgiveness Bible study examines relevant scriptures for the purpose of building a Biblical understanding of: • what forgiveness is and what it isn't • God's role in the process of forgiveness • wh...

This forgiveness Bible study examines relevant scriptures for the purpose of building a Biblical understanding of: • what forgiveness is and what it isn't • God's role in the process of forgiveness • what Jesus accomplished at the cross for each of us • our mandate to forgive as we've been forgiven • what gets in the way of forgiving others • how to truly forgive the unforgivable

Furthermore, it would be helpful to show that the existing concern for evangelism and church growth could not be pursued apart from the issues raised by the wider social setting without doing damage to the biblical understanding of mission This also had to be done from the text itself, and not from any intrinsic authority given by the congregation to the preacher.

John Cobb and those of us he mentored, as well as Daniel Day Williams, have appropriated the philosophical vision of Whitehead and Hartshorne in putting theology back into contact with the biblical understanding of a God in dynamic interrelation with all of creation.

Fifth, there is what we might call an internal problem in the biblical understanding of the cross.

The biblical understanding of revelation is thoroughly incarnational, and not just in the New Testament.

Admittedly, there is a rhetorical problem in our contemporary setting when Christians ground their sexual morality exclusively in a biblical understanding of human embodiment.

completely misses the point when he charges me with reducing the Biblical understanding of human existence to man's understanding of himself, and therefore secularizing the Christian proclamation, and with reducing the redemptive act of God in Christ to the immanence of human existence and its realization in our life in time [ibid., p. 60]-RRB-.

Although this book is not part of the Protestant Bible, it does show that in a setting in which matter is held to be virtually eternal, the biblical understanding of God as Creator leads naturally to a creatio ex nihilo position since the alternative compromises the sovereignty of God over nature).

What strikes me, though, is how much Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have tried to move the discussion not so much away from natural law as toward a deeper, more biblical understanding of human sexuality.

The biblical understanding of national life was based on the notion of community with charity for all the members, a community, a community supported by public and private virtue.

But that is not the biblical understanding of spirituality.

The system of checks and balances they built in the Constitution was formed not only by the recognition that good citizens may differ over the proper course of action, but also, at least in part, by the Biblical understanding of humans as fallible and prone to wrong - doing, and therefore frequently in need of some healthy opposition from their fellows.

(This, incidentally, is much closer than the medieval picture to the Biblical understanding of heaven.)

Speaking in response to the Scottish Episcopal Church's decision to allow gay marriages, a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland told the Belfast Telegraph: «Many people in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland will be deeply saddened at this week's developments in Scotland, which seems so obviously at variance with the traditional biblical understanding of marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Though he is spoken of anthropomorphically (as a being in human form) at some points in the Bible, particularly in the early «J» stories of the Old Testament, this is not the normal biblical understanding of his nature.

The answer to your set of what ifs is that having lost a biblical understanding of ritual and the importance of concrete acts and relationships, we become preoccupied with ideas, which is to say, we become gnostics — which is to say, we become what the (conservative Protestant) American church largely is today.

We may strive for a biblical understanding of marriage, but it's clear that we're not all that sure what marriage should look like.

But we must not fool ourselves by thinking that because the archeologist proved that Solomon did have a copper smelter on the Gulf of Aqaba and a horse - trading business at Megiddo, he has thereby demonstrated that the biblical understanding of Solomon is true.

In the third place, when the reader takes up the biblical understanding of God and man and begins to understand his own situation in these terms, then the question of the social relevance of the Bible is solved.

And it shows little awareness of the biblical understanding of revelation as history, revelation as event, revelation as dialogical encounter, or revelation as personal relationship.

And his Gospel, though not a pattern of an ecclesiastical system nor yet a program for modern social reform, is still «social» through and through — social because religious, in the ancient biblical understanding of religion.5

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

The biblical understanding of creation supports the empirical, observational aspect of science, but the Christian evaluation of the rational component seems more ambiguous.

Paul Lehmann, Harvey Cox, J. B. Metz Jürgen Moltmann and others have attempted to show the usefulness of this concept in elucidating a biblical understanding of man and his communal existence under God.

What the biblical understanding of creation rules out is not any scientific account, but other interpretive statements, such as «God is nature» (pantheism), «the world is essentially unreal» (Hinduism), «matter is ultimate» (materialism), or «the world is evil» (Schopenhauer — and some forms of existentialism).

The fall of Adam and Eve, the covenants with Israel and its deliverance from bondage, its falling away and punishment through new sufferings, the speaking of the divine word through the prophets, the birth of Christ in human flesh, the life and death of Jesus, the experience of the resurrection, and the history of the Church, the expectation of the final events and the established reign of God in love and peace — all this is the Biblical understanding of what God has done, is doing, and will continue to do for the judgment and redemption of the world.

The call of Walter Wink is for followers of Jesus to return to a proper and biblical understanding of the powers that are around us, in us, and through us, and which share creation with us.

Bonhoeffer maintains that the Biblical understanding of God directs us to a powerless and suffering God who is with us and who calls us to share his suffering for the sake of the world.

These consequences can be avoided if we revive the authentic Biblical understanding of the personal relationship between God and man.

What is the proper Biblical understanding of the term «Jew»?

He finds all philosophical ideas of God resistant to the Biblical understanding of a God who acts selectively in history.

It's a bit radical, I know, but it is Lutheran theology, and I believe it is an accurate, biblical understanding of the life of faith.

Yet if evangelicals desire a Biblical faith, they must recognize that such issues are of central importance for a Biblical understanding of the Christian faith.

Does such a critical, yet faithful, approach as that outlined above imply that only the expert can arrive at an adequate Biblical understanding of the role of women in the church and family?

What is a biblical understanding of play?

The biblical understanding of nature inheres in a human ethical vision, a vision of ecojustice, in which the enmity or harmony of nature with humanity is part of the human historical drama of good and evil.

The biblical understanding of nature, therefore, inheres in a human ethical vision, a vision of ecojustice, in which the enmity or harmony of nature with humanity is part of the human historical drama of good and evil.

That possibility seems to be ruled out for the theist, whose view of the relation between God and creation has been molded by the general biblical understanding of things.

DH «I am in favour of recovering the biblical understanding of shaming in the sense that «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong» 1 cor 1:27... as an encouragement to anyone who is a victim (and therefore considered weak in the eyes of the world) that there is a greater power to call on in order to shame... any person in a position of power in the church that is using their power to oppress rather than serve... Does that help or hinder?»

The biblical understanding of having dominion over the earth is not rightly interpreted to mean that human beings are free to abuse animals.

In the biblical understanding of things, there is nothing mere about any dimension of the human condition.

Accepting the biblical understanding of love as central to any human concept of the divine is at the heart of Williams» enterprise, directly challenging the Augustinian formulation as a corruption of this.23 Love is «spirit taking form in history.»

The biblical understanding of life never had a chance to shape its own culture and ethic, and thus to create a context for sexuality within a Christian style of life.

I have repeatedly affirmed that there appeared to be serious tensions between the Biblical understanding of God and that which emerges in Thomist natural theology.

Reaching back to the original biblical understanding of creation involving the increasing emergence of order out of chaos, Keller writes:

Walter Harrelson's little book, The Ten Commandments and Human Rights (Fortress, 1980), is one of the most important recent attempts to show how the biblical understanding of human obligation under God gave rise to the principles present in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.