Sentences with phrase «christian scholars»

Lutheran pastor and theologian Dr. Ted Peters outlined the «moral framework» under which he supports stem cell research while speaking at the Christian Scholars» Conference at Pepperdine University last week.

It would have been surprising if the forms of Christian theology that developed between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries a.d. did not influence the questions and methods of Jewish scholars, as those of the latter certainly influenced Christian scholars.

However uneasy secular scholars may be in the presence of Christian scholars, Christian scholars can be quite comfortable in the presence of secular scholars.

Even Christian scholars may be reluctant to admit how clouded and unsure the human mind is, and how dependent on revelation.

Why, for example, should Christian scholars want to join secular scholars in a single community of inquiry?

Rather than being scholars who just happen to be Christians, they should be Christian scholars.

These tensions can easily be seen if we note how unavoidable it will be for Christian scholars to appeal, at least occasionally and tacitly, to revelation.

This view of the universe was successfully challenged and overthrown in the sixteenth century by two Christian scholars, who may be rightly regarded as laying the foundations of the modern science of astronomy.

Christian scholars have never found proof he was born, do you know his birthday?

Many of his ideas — some of them questionable at best — have been appropriated by Christian scholars generally and by Christian psychologists and counselors in particular.

The foundations of Hebrew philology and biblical exegesis were laid by Jewish scholars in the early Middle Ages, and carried forward by Christian scholars from the Renaissance to the present.

I absolutely love that Christian scholars are saying that this text isn't important because it wasn't written contemporary to the life of Jesus.

Leveraging the pluralistic stance of the contemporary academy to the advantage of faith - informed scholarship, he argues that academic freedom must be granted as fully to Christian scholars as it is to feminists and other committed researchers.

Some Christian scholars believe that Marsden has exaggerated the extent of such persecution, while others argue that the main problem is not persecution but Christian self - censor - ship.

We'll start with the context of the story, then move through its major movements, drawing insights each week from a variety of commentaries from both Jewish and Christian scholars.

Report of a Commission of Christian Scholars Appointed by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1944.

With their cover stories, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News cl» World Report were able simultaneously to acknowledge the belief of millions of Christians around the world while providing the «news» that the basis of Christian belief is something even Christian scholars disagree about.

And a lot of Christian scholars have agreed.

The Dun Commission of Christian scholars in 1950 in their report on The Christian Conscience and Weapons of Mass Destruction stated that «to accept general war as inevitable is to treat ourselves as helpless objects carried by a fated tide of events rather than as responsible men,» and went on to say, «One reason why fascism and Naziism gained their dread power over great nations was because otherwise decent people bowed before what they regarded as «inevitable» and allowed a «wave of the future» to inundate them.»

Christian scholars have been uncovering Jesus» truth through the years and explain scriptures of what happened in the Garden of Eden.

It would be desirable to appoint outstanding scholars who are also committed Christians, but we can not become a great university by appointing second - rate Christian scholars instead of first - rate non-Christian scholars.

Jesus the Son of Marry (Peace and blessings be up on him) is known today to the Christian world as it is being described by John, Paul, Luke and others... whatever the way these human imagined him became the faith... record shows that the first book of NT was written at least 60 - 80 years after Jesus the son of Marry was taken away from this earth... and these writers used their vision as a weapon to get it to the brain of mankind... also there are debates among the Christian scholars that no one knows who is the writer of some of the gospels... someone else wrote it and used the names what we see today... i.e. no one knows when and who and how the Hebrew chapters were written... despite of lots of controversy on this, Christian scholars uses them to teach others...

On the contrary, the long and complex process which has forced us to distinguish between the historical figure of Jesus (who is open to historical research) and the religious figure of the Christ (who can be affirmed only by Christians and who is subjectively «known» in Christian devotion) has been undertaken by Christian scholars bringing the best of contemporary analysis to their study of the Bible.

An invaluable gathering of fourteen essays, with multiple responses, by Jewish and Christian scholars, this book represents the very best in contemporary Jewish «Christian dialogue.

The prestige and influence of Christian scholars probably never stood higher in all of Western history than during the two generations which embraced the lifetimes of Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin.»)

Many Christian scholars hold that Jesus interpreted his role [and the meaning of messiahship] in terms of the Suffering Servant pattern.

Even in the dark days from the fifth to the eighth century there were Christian scholars, such as Boethius (c. 480 - c. 524) and Cassiodorus (c. 485 - c. 580) in Rome, St Isidore (c.560 - 636), who was Archbishop of Seville in Spain, and the Venerable Bede (c.673 - 735), who has been called the «father of English church history».

Sometimes Christian scholars have been greatly exercised to prove that in Christ we have a new conception of God.

By the beginning of this century a great change had taken place and James Orr prefaced his defense of the traditional position by sketching the widespread questioning and rejection of «bodily resurrection» by Christian scholars.10 In 1907 Kirsopp Lake published the first study of the resurrection, in English, which rested upon a thorough application of historical criticism to the New Testament records and he concluded that «The empty tomb is for us doctrinally indefensible and is historically insufficiently accredited.

Some Christian scholars are now more interested in the text as we have it and in the history of how it has been used and understood over the centuries by the Church.

Christian scholars followed in the same vein making Christ the lover and protector of the Church.

In recent years, Christian scholars such as George Marsden and James Burtchaell have offered a new interpretation of that...

The material in the Book of Daniel was put into a collection, according to Jewish and Christian scholars, in the mid-second century B.C..

they are all Christian scholars, there arent any atheists / agnostics in that bunch (like Crossan, Ehrman, etc, etc..)?

Jacques Elllul, The Theological Foundation of Law (Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1960), p. 86; Emil Brunner, Justice and the Social Order (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945), p. 1; cf. James Booker, «Durrenmatt's Concept of Justice,» Christian Scholars Review 6 (November 4, 1977): 317 - 325.

Most Christian scholars would agree that the Gospels are midrashes upon the historic events of Jesus» life, midrashes that clarify Jesus» position as promised Messiah and eschatological Lord.

Often Christian scholars have led in these criticisms.

As Seerveld points out, «Generation after generation of Christian scholars kept reading past the obvious sense of what was before them and spent their sanctified ingenuity ascertaining the hidden «spiritual» meaning of the words, so as to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystical truth.

A number of Christian scholars who were influenced by Buber's thought are listed here.

Because of tradition Christian Scholars could not influence the Catholic church to change the celebration dates of Jesus Christ.

Even the two small entries of Josephus were contrived by later christian scholars.

The theme suggested by German theologian Hans Küng, «Paradigm Shifts in Buddhism and Christianity,» was addressed by more than 100 Buddhist and Christian scholars from outside the islands.

As such, his role will be to attract talented Christian scholars in the field, enhancing the school's academic profile in accordance with its renewed religious mission.

Striving to reconcile these diverse convictions, Christian scholars just might make what Christian ethicist Sondra Wheeler dubs the «festival of mutual recrimination» in the marriage debate a bit more constructive, even if more demanding.

Where is it written that the common good is best served by having competent Christian scholars frozen into tenured and adjunct status?

Socialism was born from Christian scholars disgusted with how contrary the material greed and developing class system were to the teachings of Christ.

Sorry, Christian scholars, but using good ol' common sense, I have to go with the Jewish scholars.

This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that when the Renaissance initiated a revival of Platonism, some Christian scholars, known as the Cambridge Platonists, urged the return of Christian theology to «its old loving nurse, the Platonic philosophy».

Many historical Christian scholars acknowledged the possibility of interpreting the creation account non-literally, including Origen, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and C.S. Lewis.

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