Sentences with phrase «various biblical writers»

Various Biblical writers entertained the hope that the Lord would take away the stony heart from his people and give them a heart of flesh, or in differing terms, that he would write his law on their hearts.

Not exact matches

The various metaphors from nature, on the other hand — organism, process, body, ground of being — tend to rule out full explication of the historical dimension as it is attested by the biblical writers.

Other writers — e.g., Virginia Mollenkott and Paul Jewett — admit that various biblical texts do inculcate male domination, but that such «problem texts» (problematic only to feminists, note) should be ignored in favor of the implicit thrust of other, egalitarian texts such as Galatians 3:28.

(I.v.) Demonstrations of the Bible's thematic coherence were made by various writers of the British Biblical Theology school: e.g., A. M. Hunter, The Message of the New Testament (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1944); A. G. Hebert, The Bible from Within (London: Oxford University Press, 1950); H. H. Rowley, The Unity of the Bible (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1955).

My constant purpose was and is to adumbrate on every subject I handle a genuinely canonical interpretation of Scripture - a view that in its coherence embraces and expresses the thrust of all the biblical passages and units of thought that bear on my theme - a total, integrated view built out of biblical material in such a way that, if the writers of the various books knew what I had made of what they taught, they would nod their heads and say that I had got them right.

And the various documents, themes, and purposes of the Biblical writers have been leveled in a near word - magic use of the Bible that violates both spirit and letter of all Scripture.

With respect also to earlier Christian thinkers and their various statements, there is Hodgson's further remark — which those of us who were his students vividly recall — that we must always ask something like this: «What must the truth be for us now, if people like that» — he was referring both to biblical writers and theologians in the past history of the Church --» «put it in the way they did?»

Ecological theologies that are shaped by biblical materials require a thorough analysis of the various views of nature held by biblical writers.