Sentences with phrase «biblicists in»

McDermott's Meliorists (post-conservative evangelicals) are the true Biblicists in the divide among evangelicals that he describes.

Not exact matches

Insistence on literal inerrancy, whatever its uses in arresting doctrinal laxity, leaves the LCMS vulnerable to charges of biblicist obscurantism.

Though the Puritans believed in the primacy of Scripture, they were not narrow biblicists and drew widely on early Christian writings in polemical, homiletical, and exegetical works.

My liberal colleagues were even less interested in puzzling out the continuity of truth in classical doctrine than were hard - nosed biblicists.

And it happened further that the representatives of the other theological schools and tendencies in Germany — Liberal, Pietist, Confessional, Biblicist — who had previously.

For this reason they have retrenched into what Berkouwer calls «a biblicist misinterpretation of the church's dealings with Scripture and its confession 6 Interpretations have seemed to lead in questionable directions — directions which either have moved away from traditional Biblical consensus or have disputed current cultural analysis.

The strongest challenges to a biblical Christendom in America came not, as in Europe, from secular thinkers, but from fellow biblicists.

The Reformers spoke in biblicist terms when trying to rid Christendom of what they identified as Catholic errors, but biblicism became a less functional standard once Protestants began to disagree among themselves about the meaning of the Bible.

The linguistic and biblicist vetos have been seen to be both arbitrary and unwarranted — which makes it all the more pathetic that Dr Paul van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel still seems to accept them as valid and to rule out «God - statements» as «meaningless» while at the same time his excessive Barthian christocentrism and bibliocentrism turns the patent intention of scriptural statement into a parody of their proper meaning.

Even the angular - minded New England Puritan Biblicist recognized that «it is the way of Christ in the Gospel to set up the practice of his Institutions as the necessities of the people call for them.»