Sentences with phrase «century biblical scholarship»

However, in the mid twentieth century biblical scholarship was welcomed into the Roman Catholic Church.

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According to this myth, biblical scholarship was a struggle outward from dogma into the freedom of history, and upward to the higher truth finally realized in 19th - century Germany.

The Church's Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus by Brevard S. Childs Eerdmans, 288 pages, $ 28 paper When the history of biblical scholarship for the twentieth century is written, a prominent spot will be given to Brevard Childs.

Armed with the fruits of a century of developing biblical scholarship and tools, Segundo expects — and finds — that the historical Jesus undercuts many long - held understandings of Christ.

If I am asked to identify more precisely what biblical scholarship and Reformation traditions have taught us on this subject, I quote one of the eminent theologians of the first part of this century, who wrote:

Luther in these instances was anticipating our contemporary biblical scholarship, which was a later German gift to the Christian world through the Graf Welhausen School in the 19th century and through the work of Rudolf Bultmann in the 20th.

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.

In drawing up the «schemata» that would be discussed by the council fathers, they aimed at raising to the level of permanently binding Catholic doctrine the broad rejection of modern developments in biblical scholarship and theology that had been the norm in Rome since the modernist crisis at the beginning of the twentieth century.

In a more recent work, American Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A History From the Early Republic to Vatican II, Fogarty offers, among other things, a useful antidote to the claims of some Catholic «restorationists» that the anti-Modernist excesses of the early twentieth century were the invention of fevered post-Vatican II liberal imaginations.