Sentences with phrase «esquivel critical studies»

But I think Pedersen overestimates the significance of modern historical - critical study of the Bible.

-- Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

We, in theological schools, devote considerable attention to a critical study of the church.

Form - critical studies in the prophets have thrown considerable light on the question of the ecstatic factor in prophetism.

The students at YDS were not predominantly the children of lifelong believers; they were not well shaped by church tradition and well read in the Bible, ready and eager to take on the red meat of critical study.

Thanks especially to the critical study of Dr. C. Harold Dodd, as summed up in his notable little book The Apostolic Preaching, we have become familiar with the word kerygma, Greek for «the proclamation»; and taught by Dr. Dodd and those who have followed the line of enquiry which he laid down, we have come to see that this kerygma was the very heart of the earliest Christianity.

The history of constantly changing formulations of the Biblical absolute suggests that we need a critical study of how each one fits the needs of those who formulate it.

emphasize literary - critical studies of scripture and other texts, but still as a practice of paideia.

In Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week Pope Benedict XVI builds upon insights gained from historical - critical studies in order to probe the theological depths of the revealed Word of God.

Form critical study recognizes, and indeed emphasizes, the socio - historical context in which the text functioned in the early church.

So the Mu» tazilites may be seen as early pioneers of the modern critical study of Holy Scripture.

Many of these sects have recently tended toward a critical study of their beliefs and a concern for the spiritual life of their followers.

As G. E. Bentley Jr.'s critical study of Vala demonstrates, Blake's frequent and disorderly revisions of this manuscript epic reveal his own movement into a Christian and redemptive understanding of history, an understanding that could not be reconciled with the initial direction of the poem.

Some historians have traced the roots of The Controversy to the early 1960s, when conflict over historical «critical study of the Bible produced a major crisis in the SBC leading to the dismissal of Ralph Elliott, a professor of Old Testament at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.

After Morrison became editor, his first campaign was a spirited defense of Herbert L. Willett of the University of Chicago, then a leading popularizer of the modern critical study of the Bible.

However, I am learning that as important as Greek and Hebrew textual study is, we must not think that the critical study of the text is going to solve all our exegetical and theological dilemmas.

Despite the publication of numerous Schweitzer biographies, there still remains to be written a critical study that will locate him within the turbulent currents of social protest and religious innovation in Europe at the turn of the century.

1It has now been incorporated in a full - length study: Process Metaphysics and Hua - yen Buddhism: A Critical Study of Cumulative Penetration vs. Interpenetration, by Steve Odin (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982, xxi, 242 pp., $ 33.50).

I believe it requires Exegetical and Hermeneutical gymnastics to actually spout such hateful and hurtful words and shows a great ignorance of any educated Biblical Critical Studies.

First, there are critical studies of the previous era of mission which help us to understand the principles or driving force of world mission, and the lessons we can learn from that period.

First, it is plain that the empty tomb was not the originating factor since careful critical study of the material found at the end of all four Gospels makes it clear that the stories about the empty tomb are more in the category of Christian apologetic — however honestly believed and taught at the time when the Gospels were compiled from earlier oral tradition — than in that of historical reporting.

For the first time there has arisen a real Jewish critical study of the Bible — Jewish and critical at once — which does not allow its way to be dictated to it by foreign tendencies.

It may therefore be tested and controlled by a careful and critical study of the documents which caught and fixed it at the earliest accessible stage in its development.

Brunner does not reject the form critical study of the Gospels; but he does believe that its legitimate implications have been seriously exaggerated.

For critical discussions of Ogden's argument and the entire book, see Langdon B. Gilkey, «A Theology in Process,» Interpretation, XXI, 4 (October 1967), 447 - 459; Ray L. Hart, «Schubert Ogden on the Reality of God,» Religion In Life, XXXVI, 4 (Winter 1967), 506 - 515; Antony Flew, «Reflections on «The Reality of God»,» The Journal of Religion, 48, 2 (April 1968), 150 - 161: and Robert C. Neville, «Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX, 4 (December 1969), 605 - 624.

It is this human refraction that makes the hard work of critical study inescapable, so that every text is given a suspicious scrutiny whereby we may consider the ways in which bodied humanness has succeeded or not succeeded in bearing truthful and faithful witness.

«Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX (1969), 605.624 on p. 615.

«Neoclassical Theology and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly.

The conservative view of the Bible is not one arrived at after historical - critical study, but one held before such study.

This work with experimental groups extended into a more chastened critical study of transactional analysis in relation to Pauline - Augustinian understandings of human bondage and freedom.4

The critical study of religion has been largely the product of the scientific spirit in the West.

A critical study of this inheritance provides a constant source of new lessons, lessons which, today, place the emphasis on long term transition, on the multiplicity of strategies and on democracy as a means and not only as an objective.

But as questions of faith, commitment and value became increasingly alien to «objective» critical studies, the internal connection between theology and practice was severed.

Bright young minds are refusing to be put off with answers that have no more to commend them than the hoary beard of antiquity» (Voices of Concern: Critical Studies in Church of Christism [Mission Messenger, 1966], pp. 2 - 3).

Critical study is not a recipe for religious experience.

In order to address the problem of integration, we need to reassess the capacity of theology to unify theory and practice, critical studies and pastoral concerns.

The Church promotes critical study of the Bible in order to make this possible.

In his critical study of Goethe's poem Hermann und Dorothea, Humboldt spoke of the edifice which he planned.

Form - critical studies confirm the prophets» cultic orientation.

First came the pioneering work of the Enlightenment scholar Hermann Reimarus (1694 - 1768), who made a critical study of the New Testament running to 4,000 pages of manuscript, entitled The Defense of a Rational Worshipper of God.

Just as the prophetic reformulation of Israel's earlier traditions generates a form of historical awareness, so our critique of the pretensions of consciousness in the critical study of texts gives us historical sense.

When according to critical study, that text is set in the Exile as an affirmation to Israelites and a polemic against Babylonian imperialism and Babylonian gods, the social function of that equilibrium emerges.

After a long period of literary, historical, and form - critical study of the New Testament, along with more recent work on the «redaction» of its several books in the light of the motives that led their authors to select and arrange the material then available to them, it is clear that any claim to «simple historicity» is false.

[12] In «Feminism and the Power of Interpretation: Some Critical Readings,» in Teresa de Lauretis, ed., Feminist Studies / Critical Studies (Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 1986), p. 121.

It is a balanced, critical study by one of the great religious scholars of our time.

In attempting to look at that issue I must begin with a very brief summary of what has happened to the Bible, thanks to a hundred years of careful critical study by experts who have brought to their study all the resources available, including linguistic, historical, literary, and many other types of knowledge.

(See my «The Spiritual Christ,» Journal of Biblical Literature 54:1 - 15; also the «Note on Christology» in my Frontiers of Christian Thinking (1935), and my essay, The Significance of Critical Study of the Gospels for Religious Thought Today,» in the volume presented to Professor Harris Franklin Rall, Theology and Modern Life, ed.

Repression can also be said to be the main concern of certain «postmodern» critiques of western conceptions of rationality (e.g., socio - theoretical, feminist, and historical critical studies).

Neville, Robert C. «Neo-Classical Theology and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's «Reality of God,»» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX (1969), 605 - 624.

This book is not a critical study of language analysis.