Sentences with phrase «analysis of the biblical teaching»

After relating his personal experience with homosexuals in counseling and after analyzing the contemporary movement toward gay liberation, Williams devotes successive chapters to a discussion of four social scientists» views of homosexuality, to an analysis of the Biblical teaching, and finally to a presentation of the positions of three representative theologians - Barth (traditional), Thielicke (moderating), and McNeill (accepting).

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One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.