Sentences with phrase «christian biblical narratives»

that is, the mixing of indigenous traditions with Christian biblical narratives, are not only identified but often encouraged as a continuing creative practice.

Not exact matches

What you, as self - appointed arbiter, are saying is that no «true» Christian would embrace ID and that anything less than a strict literal reading of the Genesis narrative is not «truly» biblical.

I think it is incredibly unfair for you to make out that anyone who is struggling to work out what they believe, and finding it difficult to «trust the Biblical narrative,» as you put it, is only «claim [ing] to be Christian.»

In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey helps us grapple with core Christian issues using a mixture of beautiful storytelling and biblical teaching, a style well described as «narrative theology.»

He notes the tendency of Christian scholars to disregard «pagan» birth legends while investing great effort in the defence of biblical birth narratives.

A Christian theology that respects the meaning of the biblical narratives must begin simply by retelling those stories, without any systematic effort at apologetics, without any determined effort to begin with questions arising from our experience.

In a 1998 exchange with Placher in the Christian Century, Gustafson charged that postliberals never give straight answers to questions about the historical credibility of biblical narrative or about the relation of Christian truth to the truth of other religions.

To say that Christians should allow the biblical world to absorb their own world, Placher explains, is to affirm that Christians should resist viewpoints and ideologies that are incompatible with the central claims of scriptural teaching and that Christians should consider whether scriptural narrative «might be unexpectedly helpful» in understanding their own lives.

The justifying ground of Christian belief is the trinitarian and incarnational logic of biblical narrative as expressed in Christian liturgical practices.

In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey — award - winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, which was hailed as «lucid, compelling, and beautifully written» (Frank Viola, author of God's Favorite Place on Earth)-- helps us grapple with core Christian issues using a mixture of beautiful storytelling and biblical teaching, a style well described as «narrative theology.»

Joining the ranks of Christian fundamentalism means also submitting one's own story to the biblical lens; conversion is really conversion into a particular narrative tradition.

Although Muslims and Christians do not share identical scriptures, the traditional Islamic view of the biblical narrative is nuanced and often very well informed.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

Certainly that great undertaking has been central to incarnating the Christian faith in new cultures, allowing indigenous peoples to lay full claim to the biblical narrative.

Truth for postliberals is said to be merely intra textual --» true to the biblical narrative» or true as «an adequate use of concepts and symbols within the Christian linguistic community.»

N. T. Wright puts what I'm trying to say succinctly when he argues that the entire burden of the Pauline letters is to teach new Christians to «think within the biblical narrative, to see themselves as actors within the ongoing scriptural drama: to allow their erstwhile pagan thought - forms to be transformed by a biblically based renewal of the mind» (emphasis added).

Christians participate in a community of believers, the Church, which feeds on the biblical narrative (s) and especially the story of Jesus the Christ.

December (Obedience): - Created to Be His Helpmeet by Debi Pearl - Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce - Quivering Daughters: Hope and Healing for the Daughters of Patriarchy by Hillary McFarland - Texts of Terror: Literary - Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives by Phyllis Trible

For the Christian congregation, biblical narrative is different from other mytluc stories.