Sentences with phrase «allegorical interpretation»

For the better part of nineteen centuries, the historic churches, wittingly or unwittingly, have contributed greatly to the global spread of anti-Semitism by their excessively allegorical interpretation of most if not all favorable scriptural references to the Jews.

It required them to move from literal interpretations of the texts to allegorical interpretations in which the religious insight of the texts was uncovered.

Mr. Liben's charge that «excessively allegorical interpretation» has «greatly» contributed to anti-Semitism carries implications that I am quite sure he would not wish to embrace.

This is a truly scary identification insofar as it involves a resurgence of extreme antinomian supersessionism, since the main thrust of the Epistle of Barnabas is a radical allegorical interpretation of the Law as part of a polemic against Jews.

But why should Muslims care if Catholics wanted them to be a bit more «Sufi,» keener on allegorical interpretation of the Koran and the Hadith, and cooler on taking words like «jihad» literally?

Literal vs. allegorical interpretation of Scripture?

Many Christians solve the problem of violence in the Old Testament through allegorical interpretation.

Clearly, the Song has been used in many allegorical interpretations.

First, disputes with Protestants, who accepted Scriptural authority alone and rejected allegorical interpretations, meant that the literal sense of the Bible was fundamental and almost exclusive.

This confronting of the parables with existential questions is not allegorical interpretation — at least not in the usual sense, if one agrees with Bultmann's view that presuppositionless criticism is impossible in that one must always approach a text with some kind of question and preunderstanding.

Hardison notes that popular devotional manuals contained allegorical interpretations of ceremonial right up to the mid 1950s (p. 39).

Building upon the abstract and figurative works presented in his 2014 show «Motherboard,» the artist's latest, large - scale compositions appear to welcome allegorical interpretations.

His photographs address themes in common with the painter, including moody maritime nocturnes and allegorical interpretations of nature.

I was amazed at how an allegorical interpretation — of which I find no hint in the passage — flowed spontaneously from the reading and hearing of the story.

When an allegorical interpretation of the Song first developed is debated.

«5 ° From evidence such as this, it seems safe to conclude that the allegorical interpretation of the Song arose in reaction to those who were suggesting its largely secular character.

The allegorical interpretation given in the Gospels makes the point of the parable the different modes of reception of the word of God.

We need only mention briefly the allegorical interpretation of the New Testament which has dogged the Church throughout its history.

The Song of Songs eulogizes a love affair between two unmarried persons, though even some scholars have conspired to cover up the fact with heavy layers of allegorical interpretation.

It can not come from an obscurantist who behaves as though nothing had happened and is content to repeat the shibboleths of a short - circuited dogmatism, or to take over the exegesis of Luther naïvely and uncritically, to say nothing of the allegorical interpretations of the Rabbis.

Also Palestinian Judaism did not avail itself of an allegorical interpretation of the mass of incomprehensible and impracticable commands in order to find in them an intelligible moral meaning This method was used only in Hellenistic Judaism under the influence of Greek thinking, as it was later in the Christian church, when it needed to come to terms with the Old Testament laws.

Then it occurred to me that this interpretation, despite the rejection of allegorizing by this and all other competent New Testament scholars, was really an allegorical interpretation.

From Ambrose in the fourth century A.D. to Thomas Hayne and John Milton in the seventeenth century, there have been repeated attempts to maintain a proper «biblicity» for Samson by means of allegorical interpretation.