Sentences with phrase «as some scholars think»

The Exile had already taken place, but whether the second Isaiah wrote around 540 B.C., as some scholars think from references to the Persian king Cyrus, or a century later, is not certain.

13:30) or, as some scholars think, to the Transfiguration which follows almost at once in the Marcan narrative; it is only the editorial juxtaposition of the two sayings, falsifying their original contexts, which turns the whole passage into a prophecy of the return of the Son of man within a generation.

Not exact matches

As the scholar Eric St. John once wrote, «There is, perhaps, no college decision that is more thought - provoking, gut wrenching and rest - of - your - life oriented — or disoriented — than the choice of a major.»

In addition, he spent time at the Treasury Department and most recently, before coming to the Fed in 2012, served as a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

Yet, if you're not sufficiently informed of its modern day behaviors and practices as espoused by leading authors, thought - leaders, and scholars, a false perception may lead you astray.

«I think in order to qualify as a coherent set of policies, the policies have to not be cartoonish and the policies have to stand some chance of being actually enacted, and I just don't think Mr. Trump's trade policies meet either of those criteria,» said Michael Strain, resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

Dr. Sands began his career as a policy research scholar, and is a nonresident Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) the Washington think tank where he was a resident specialist on Canadian affairs from 1993 until 2002.

Perhaps the latter is true in some mystical sense but as a history scholar I can tell you that I can't think of a worse position that being an early Christian in the Roman Empire.

As I said above, most NT scholars do not think that Peter authored Peter 2 where that stamp of approval appears, Theo.

America doesn't need anymore reason for blokes to plot against us and you're just pouring alcohol on an already burning fire.Anyways, as much as I am angry and hurt by this, I agree with this scholar - we can print more and more and as Muslim we need to set the standard of rising up and REMAINING calm and not be the stereotype the world thinks we are of angry backward water buffalos.

Of course most NT scholars find good reason to think that Peter did not author Peter 2, where Peter allegedly deems Paul's works as divine scripture.

And his virtues as a scholar — solid research, rigorous thinking, careful judgment, and a profound compassion for troubled human beings — are on full display in his book.

It's recounted as one incident (told twice), but scholars think it was likely a pattern in which he antagonized the priests and attempted to take more power than they wanted him to have.

The answer may not be as simple you think, according to scholars who study all brands of religious extremism.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

Most non-Christian scholars agree that there was a real - live man that all this is focused around, though it is probable that he never claimed to be or thought of himself as the Messiah.

But the actual man whom friends called «Jack» had a «horrible» personal life, thought he had failed as a defender of Christianity and spent so much time in pubs that his publishers initially struggled selling him to a religious audience, scholars say.

SO you have NO CREDENTIALS as a biblical scholar, but are ignorant enough to think you know more than hundreds of them.

Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..

Respectfully, as a religious scholar, I would have thought you to be more correct and honest in your representations of Christianity, but from the start, you seem more inclined to worship science and the mind than an Almighty God.

Why not get a job as a biblical scholar since you are a BLOGGER who thinks you know more than the professionals.

I think that (and this is where I would like input from a greek scholar) Romans 1:5 and Romans 10:16 link belief as a agreement of the report, and then also links belief in the Gospel report as obedience, which would then be for lack of a better term - the lowest common denominator of faith.

«13 Gerhard von Rad recalls with approval the suggestion of the Jewish biblical scholar Franz Rosenzweig: we ought no longer to think of the symbol R as standing for Redactor but rather, for Rab benu, which means, in Hebrew, our master»; since for the final form in which we receive the work, we are indebted to him and to his interpretation.14 His was the same historical perspective which gave rise to this prayer:

I still don't think that belief in the Genesis version of creation requires one to believe in the ten thousand year thing.The King James translated the original to say seven days, other scholars have since said that word could be interpreted as ages.

Scholars have looked to it for inspiration in thinking about such questions as the origins of new theological ideas, the relations between changing religious views and changing views of the state, and the religious legitimation of secular knowledge.

Some modern Christian thinkers, such as John Hick or Raimundo Panikkar, in their interpretation of the Trinity as a metaphor come close to Muslim thinking, but as the distinguished Muslim scholar Professor S. A. Ali observes, Muslims will always be uneasy with the language of «Father, Son and Holy Spirit.»

An excellent scholar, far - famed in his day as a pillar of the truth and a commentator, he may thus be taken as a good representative of the theological thought of the eastern Church at the end of the fourth century.

Ambitious liberal scholars think of essays in The Nation as proud achievements.

But while the possibility of such contact is admitted, there is no justification for the exaggerated view put forward by such scholars as De Boer, Von Kremer, and D. B. Macdonald that the development of Muslim theology was largely influenced by Christian thought.

I think you would really have to stretch things a lot to argue that there wasn't an actual person who was the root of the Jesus legend, but to say that everything outlined in the Gospels is a historical record of that person is something that very few scholars would claim, and I can't think of any who would try to argue that claims to godhood can be seen as historical evidence of actual godhood.

Introduction Scholars such as John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin have developed the Christological implications of Whiteheadian process - relational thought in a number of widely read works in recent years.1 «Evangelical» Christians, holding the Christian scriptures to be the uniquely inspired and authoritative charter documents of their faith, and finding in these scriptures a Christ...

’14 In popular Jewish thought Elijah came to be regarded as «the ever - present prophet, wandering incognito over the earth, sometimes in the garb of a nomad, to aid in moments of distress and danger, appearing to mystics and scholars to teach them hidden truths, and acting as celestial messenger».15 He was thought to be present at every ceremony of circumcision as the guardian spirit and witness, and on such occasions a special chair was reserved for him.

The Latin word resurrectio appears to have been created for Christian use, and while the Greek equivalent anastasis is certainly pre-Christian, it does not seem to have been widely used until Christian times, some scholars thinking that, when Paul referred to it at Athens, his hearers mistook it for the name of a goddess.26 The idea of resurrection first came to expression in the form of a narrative, and until the advent of the above technical terms, words of very general usage, such as «raise», «wake up», «stand up», etc., served the purpose of relating it.

This event is usually a rather sedate affair, with scholars debating such recondite subjects as «Bayesian approaches to political research» and «The political?theological problem in Xenophon's thought.»

If anything, serious Bible scholars expect the world to get worse; the next World War is more than likely just over the horizon.Peace.If that wasn't so pathetically sad it would almost be funny.Humanity has been and is many things, but peaceful is not one of them.Peace will come when THE PRINCE OF PEACE comes; as the so - called pope I would think you of all people would know that.

These scholars see it as their mission to explain to today's analytic philosophers why they should find in the thought of the Middle Ages a rich and interesting source for their own intellectual projects.

Scholars such as John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin have developed the Christological implications of Whiteheadian process - relational thought in a number of widely read works in recent years.1 «Evangelical» Christians, holding the Christian scriptures to be the uniquely inspired and authoritative charter documents of their faith, and finding in these scriptures a Christ whose divine humanity defies explanation in terms of any general metaphysical scheme, have had for the most part little interest in or even contact with these process - relational Christologies.2 That revelation presents to us this Christ is sufficient warrant for believing him; his being is, at any rate, incommensurate with ours.

Matthew, yes as you say here, p e o p l e, do these things, going against the word of YHWH, and His righteousness, did you know that unless scholars go through YHWH they are cut off from Him, their knowledge has deceived them, going against YHWH, Isaiah 47, the daughter of Babylon, the US, who do you think gave it to them, as taught in Malachi 2:11,12, also marring a daughter of a strange god, we are to not put nothing before YHWH.

I think Jüngel's dual role as theologian and biblical scholar stood him very well in calling attention to the importance of this insight in the biblical narrative.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

That view was founded on the «coming Son of man» sayings as authentic to Jesus; yet New Testament scholars now routinely (and, I think, correctly) deny that the «coming Son of man» sayings go back to Jesus.

I have not had to appeal to that oldest and best argument for the institution of academic tenure, the unqualified freedom of a scholar to move as his or her research and thinking lead, without being bound by past assumptions or present colleagues.

Biblical scholars think of this as their «social location» and are careful to be aware of how it affects their interpretation.

thought by scholars to be the earliest, are such commands as these: «Thou shalt worship no other god»; «Thou shalt make thee no molten gods»; «The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep»; «All that openeth the womb is mine»; «Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest»; «Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread»; «Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.»

The main take - away from all the above is this: Hamilton, the likely author of # 65, and Madison and Jay also, to the extent this particular paper was run by them in advance (scholars think such a preview was done sometimes, but not generally), did not understood impeachment for «high crimes and misdemeanors» as referring to an easily defined category.

And still in our world, when the «academic study of religion» often nudges theological reflection to curricular margins, it remains possible to think of oneself not simply as a scholar of religion but also as a theologian.

A word about the context of my present work: I still read British and German New Testament scholars and learn from them, but, without having made a conscious choice about it, I do not think that I read them as much as I used to, and except for people like Erhardt Güttgemanns, who also does New Testament theology from a foundation in literary criticism and linguistics, I am not sure that they are moving me in really new directions.

Scholars aren't half as dumb as people think.

About a decade ago, I heard Wheaton College's Jerry Root, a noted Lewis scholar, describe the Chronicles of Narnia author's views on animals as a sentimental failing in his thought.

For if it is hard to imagine the historical Jesus referring to himself as the Good Shepherd, it is just as difficult to think of him puffing down the hireling, who — as biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan has reminded us — is the sort of destitute person destined to inherit the kingdom of God