Sentences with phrase «scriptura for»

Similarly, other points from doctrinal statements often represent key teachings from Scripture and can help guide our own study into Scripture, keeping us within the doctrinal boundaries of Christians from the past (See The Shape of Sola Scriptura for more on this idea).

I'd suggest Kieth Mathison's The Shape of Sola Scriptura for an in - depth look at the actual Reformation take on things.

We have moved beyond Luther's sola Scriptura for the same reason the Catholic Church moved beyond the canonized Scriptures after the fourth century.

Not exact matches

To many Protestants, they were forerunners of the Reformation: courageous champions of sola Scriptura, critics of a corrupt hierarchy, and, in Hus» case, a martyr for the cause of truth.

He has to configure a new batch of punch cards, load and run them for his Analogia Scriptura algorithms.

For this reason, it is more appropriate to speak of prima scriptura» which more adequately represents historic Christian orthodoxy while preserving Scripture's normative place in doing moral theology.

Unless one wants to limit Sola Scriptura to the original manuscripts themselves (which I have never heard of anyone doing, because such a move would make the Bible completely useless for us today), the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts we have today are the result of 2000 years of church tradition.

A large segment of Christianity holds to Sola Scriptura, which is typically defined as the belief that the Bible alone is the final authority for all things related to faith and practice.

Chris, however, sees belief in papal authority as standing in direct contradiction to the doctrine of sola scriptura — the Bible alone being the infallible guide for faith and doctrine.

That is what it means to have an inspired Scripture and this is the import of the sola scriptura principle for doctrine.

It is this complexity which I wish to analyze in order that I may say how it is that evangelical theologians today ought to construe the significance of the sola scriptura principle for their work.

I do not elsewhere «skewer» conservatives for their devotion to the founders» intentions because of its resemblance to the principle of sola scriptura — I note this mostly as a bemused observation — but because, apparently unlike Reilly, I do not subscribe to a «Great Man» view of historical agency and historiography in which the mens auctoris provides the definitive key to the meaning of texts or historical events.

Elsewhere, Hanby has skewered conservatives for stressing the importance of the «founders» intent» as perhaps «simply a secular echo of the Protestant principle of sola scriptura and the quest for a univocal meaning.»

I think, for example, it is arguable that the small Karaite Jewish sect that relies upon the Bible only and rejects the Talmud and the Protestant reformers with their similar reliance upon sola Scriptura came up with standards that can be applied practically and that are rooted in the traditions they seek to reform.

For Protestants, sola scriptura is a theological reminder of the centrality of Scripture as the inspired Word of the Incarnate Word.

Doc, if Catholics believed in sola scriptura your request for a specific scriptural passage would be a valid one.

As the Church does not accept sola scriptura as a valid argument for teachings and truth.

For many years I have struggled with deep seated doubts about Protestantism which clings so blindly to the Reformation's Sola Scriptura overreaction which gained its foothold at a time when «enlightenment» was only just beginning to teach us how to sign our names other than with an «X».

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

Unless we drastically reshape both our theology and our entire institutional church life so that this fact becomes as central to evangelical theology and evangelical institutional programs as it is in Scripture, we will demonstrate to the world that our verbal commitment to sola scriptura is a dishonest ideological support for an unjust, materialistic status quo.

Return to sola scriptura seems regressive in an ecumenical age for whom Scripture is primary but whose available resources for theological interpretation are more encompassing than mere Scripture [Leroy T. Howe].

For them, the «sola Scriptura principle is meant to shape engagement of the catholic tradition rather than to exclude it.»

Kevin, If you really want to see whats NOT in the bible, here is a man made tradition for you: SOLA - SCRIPTURA

So, here's my question for you: Do you find yourself questioning the notion of sola Scriptura / the sole authority of the Bible?

A poetic performance piece exploring duality, SCRIPTURA VITAE stars famed Japanese actress Miho Nikaido, best known for her role in the Japanese cult classic film «Tokyo Decadence», alongside Butoh performer and dancer Maki Shinagawa.

In addition to this series of granite works Nauman produced fifty prints with the same phrase, «PARTIAL TRUTH», rendered in the same scriptura monumentalis font, for the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art on the occasion of their 1997 exhibition Bruce Nauman: 1985 — 1996: Drawings, Prints, and Related Works.