Sentences with phrase «adequate biblical understanding»

Fortunately they are beginning to make such changes, finding them to be an inherent part of a more adequate biblical understanding.

Does such a critical, yet faithful, approach as that outlined above imply that only the expert can arrive at an adequate Biblical understanding of the role of women in the church and family?

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I would also contend that only a biblical understanding that Jesus of Nazareth is now the risen Lord provides an adequate authority and an unshakable hope for a nonviolent movement.

It is my contention that a biblical understanding of the cross leads necessarily to a nonviolent stance and, conversely, that only a fully biblical view of the cross and justification can provide an adequate foundation for nonviolence.

I myself am inclined to agree with Barr about the poverty of this postfundamentalist theology and tradition for the future of evangelicalism — though I would want my evangelical colleagues to understand clearly that I reject this tradition not to reject biblical or evangelical faith but to seek rather a more adequate conceptual framework through which to be more faithful to the Scriptures.

Finally, Whitehead's notion of God does seem to be an adequate way of understanding and explaining the biblical images of God, and perhaps it is even more suitable for this task than the God of Plato or Aristotle, Augustine or Thomas.

But I believe that his hermeneutical reflections are not adequate to his own understanding of a proper biblical theology.