Sentences with phrase «biblical ways of»

It focuses on using support from the group to explore Biblical ways of working through the terrible things that have happened to all of us in the past.

In fact, it seems accurate to say that biblical ways of thinking opened the horizon of «history» to humankind in an unprecedented and decisive way.

This is far closer to dominant Biblical ways of thinking than the alternatives.

But if you have the Story firmly in your head, with a good grasp of various biblical ways of telling it, what you teach by opportunity will, over time, exhibit a visible coherence that it wouldn't otherwise have.

McCoy suggests that Whitehead, too, may have been shaped by biblical ways of thinking: «Indeed, it is highly probable that the process philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries emerged from contexts influenced by the covenantal or federal tradition and thus are in part intellectual progeny of covenantal theology and ethics» (CCE 360).

Along with biblical ways of thinking it affirms a special significance of humankind within the context of creation, recognizing, as Conrad Bonifazi puts it in the context of explicating Teilhard de Chardin, that «in human beings evolution has revealed its profoundest energy and significance» (TNE 311).

I agree that the pastor should have responded differently to the small group who annonymously called and bullied him, but the way the church is handling it — asking forgiveness and working as a body — it is the Biblical way of handling this.

This is the best, clearest, and most biblical way of inviting people to receive eternal life.

Frei countered that this is not a biblical way of thinking.

In order to do that, I will first look at how most people in North America view the church and what I think is a more biblical way of understanding the church.

Just as grains are often linked with hardship, many references to meat and fat in the Bible seem to promote their use (which is interesting, because many diets that encourage a Biblical way of eating often minimize meat consumption).

Not exact matches

One of the things that I dropped along the way was any sense of literal biblical interpretation that I had left.

Under the radar, the «establishment» in university science departments has been finding ways to get rid of professors who have any belief in the creation / Biblical viewpoint.

You hit the nail squarely on the head for indeed so, biblical truths are «written on our heart» by way of the Presence of Christ's Indwelt Spirit Who is ever faithful to «guide you into all truth» and «show (us) things to come» (John 16:13) but the problem is (as is woefully evident with this Article \ s Author), too many people (believers) choose to eschew or disregard «sound doctrine» (2 Timothy 4:3) promulgating John 14:17 ignorance of the Doctrine of The Holy Spirit whose inevitable product is a darkened understanding (such as is evidenced by the Article's Author --RRB-.

The Spirit grows and disciples desires for freedom, equality, justice all happens in personal encounter, through worship, through Biblical encounter (in lots of ways) etc..

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 summary of the biblical principles for the giving of our finances in a God honoring way is clear.

Last week a controversial book of theology was condemned by well - established critics who cautioned the public that the book did not present Christian doctrine in an accurate, biblical, or traditional way.

I dream of a movement of biblical Christians who even as they are carted off to jail will express Christlike tenderness to policemen, who even as they are sentenced will explain Jesus» way of love and justice to incredulous judges, who will even dare to risk their own lives in order to release the captives and free the oppressed.

The religious insight of the exodus story works itself into the Biblical tradition in many ways.

McKenna's conclusion is that Singer's way of thinking is to be expected from one who has abandoned the biblical ethic.

This understanding of the atonement relates to biblical nonviolence in several ways.

One has only to compare these lines with the statements of St. Paul regarding the destiny of the Jews to see that the biblical thought has been drastically reduced in a way that is decidedly prejudicial.

Christianity itself has become a principality and holds thousands captive, Before anyone comments on me calling todays Christianity a principality, (a demonic stronghold) let me just make a request that those who do answer are those who live as the followers of the way did in biblical times, that is, meeting every day, considering nothing they owned as their own, laying their lives down for the gospel (and not getting paid to do so) and having signs and wonders accompany them when they speak of the Lord.

To me she seems like a contemporary incarnation of the biblical Anna, for whom anticipation and hope, expectation and worship are a way of life.

She is personally in favour of same - sex marriage but believes that silence is more harmful than teaching the classic biblical interpretation in a sensitive way.

and the Gospel precept, «Love your enemies `, (Matthew v. 44) is the measure of the way we have to travel, following the movement of the biblical history, (We may note one particular milestone on the way.

Somewhere along the way, we've allowed the notion of social entertaining to hijack the true heart of biblical hospitality.

Suzanne Collins» trilogy was the first foray into fiction I enjoyed after a year of research and writing for «A Year of Biblical Womanhood», so I surrendered myself totally to the unfolding stories and, like so many others, lost a lot of sleep as I worked my way through The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and The Mockingjay.

I'm looking to eventually teach theology, but in between my personal studies, an obsessive reading habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward as an outlet for some of my random thoughts and a way to interact with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical studies, and social justice.

All three of the biblical passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands are either directly preceded or followed by instructions for slaves to obey their masters, with phrases like «likewise» and «in the same way» connecting them.

After 3 months of searching the internet and you tube to decide if I wanted to come back to religion, I finally found someone who preaches from the heart, the way my Mama and Papa used to hear when they went to church, DR John Collins with the Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back him up.

To gather large crowds and preach the Gospel to them is Biblical, so whoever mocks that type of evangelism actually mocks the way Jesus did evangelism.

Any study of ancient hsitory and linking it in with all the Old Testament biblical journeys into Egypty, including JC's family pilgrimige, plus coming out of and being exiled back to Mesopotaia, with a little Persian, Greek, Roman, etc. influences along the way should make that clear.

What is the alternative to Biblical literalism as a way of approaching the Bible?

[By the way, A Year of Biblical Womanhood is STILL just $ 1.99 on Kindle, a pretty great deal for readers on a budget!]

And in a way meditation on biblical material is just that: after all the other «senses» have been exhausted, there is the imaginative approach that will make it possible for the reader to grasp the big meaning of what he is reading.

I still believe these things to be true and biblical, but I am now aware of different ways of approaching these doctrines which require further study on my part.

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

This is significant not only because it is a biblical text, but because it seems for her to sum up in a decisive way the meaning of her self - discovery.

In conclusion, the same problem of the relation of Mascall's philosophy and Biblical thought should be stated in a distinctively Protestant way.

One need not be surprised if in the conflict between the apparent implications of Biblical concepts, understood to be analogical, with metaphysical concepts, understood to be univocal, it is the implications of the Biblical concepts that give way.

The biblical witness brought forth a way of thinking about the nature of God as a living and interacting God who is predominantly and even essentially love.

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.»

In these arguments the move from data consisting of Biblical texts construed in a certain way to conclusions concerning what truly is a tenet in some Biblical theology is warranted by process hermeneutics, strictly understood, i.e., a process theory of understanding.

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.

The very arrangement of the biblical books in the Hebrew canon of scripture presupposes this definition of prophetism.1 Between the first division of the Law and the third division of the Writings, the central category of the Prophets embraces not only the books of the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve prophets from Hosea to Malachi (all together termed «Latter Prophets») but also the historical writings of Joshua, Judges, and the books of Samuel and Kings («Former Prophets») In this way the Hebrew Bible formally and appropriately acknowledges that prophetism is more than the prophet and his work, that it is also a way of looking at, understanding, and interpreting history.

He even confessed that «I am only gradually working my way to the non-religious interpretation of Biblical concepts; the job is too big for me to finish just yet.

Together with the opening line of the Letter to the Hebrews («In ancient times God spoke to man through prophets and in varied ways, but now he speaks through Christ, His Son...»), as well as many other biblical texts, this passage reveals to us a startling truth.

Nonetheless their distrust of universals went a long way toward undercuttingthe analogy which instils confidence into human thought and supplies the presupposition for biblical revelation.