Luther, by rejecting Dionysius, very appropriately, left spirituality free to return to its more authentic sources in
the Jewish biblical tradition.
Not exact matches
With the great
Jewish thinker of the early part of this century, Franz Rosenzweig, he believes that Jews need to understand anew that «the
Jewish vocation, rooted in the
biblical tradition, is to be an instrument for the redemption of all humankind.»
Within the
Jewish - Christian
tradition, this refreshment and companionship is given a supreme and clear statement in the language in which the
biblical writers speak of God as the living one who identifies himself with his creatures, works for their healing, enables them to experience newness of life, and enters into fellowship with them.
My own view is that it makes a great deal of difference which religious
tradition a
biblical theologian belongs to, so much so that I have argued in print that a common
Jewish and Christian Old Testament theology is impossible.
It is not by chance that more than one sage in the
biblical tradition was not
Jewish.
It is quite obvious that the
biblical (
Jewish - Christian)
tradition is opposed to the post-modern liberal culture as described above.
All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to
Jewish Belief,
Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering
Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering
Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs