Sentences with phrase «because biblical interpretation»

This highly conservative Calvinist argues that because biblical interpretation «deals with a book that is unique in the realm of literature, viz. with the Bible as the inspired Word of God,» we must develop a sacred interpretative science of a «very special character (page 11).

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I spent a lot of time ostracized by fellow churchgoers because I dared question meanings and interpretations of biblical passages.

The «quacks» in biblical interpretation are those who think they can just «feel» their way through what the bible «means» because they were «saved».

The point of the bible based discussion is because the bible thumpers have been able to successfully shape public policy based on their biblical interpretation.

But it does show how much Biblical interpretation has changed, because the scriptural point that made them pacifist was «thou shalt not kill», which they felt applied to war.

It seemed worth while saying this, because in these last years there has been a renewed interest in these half - forgotten methods of biblical interpretation.

It also shows how it is able, because of this, to achieve the critical freedom which is related to the history of social freedom... The Biblical traditions and the doctrinal and confessional formulae that are derived from these traditions appear in the light of this interpretation as formulae of memoria.

Hermeneutics was more consonant with Tillich's enterprise not only because it began its career as biblical interpretation, but because it put the reader / viewer back into the work's meaning.

This is partly because it involves such questions as the interpretation of biblical passages that, on their face, condemn homosexuality as a sin.

Because this either / or still tends to divide Christians, we need to look at the biblical picture of the kingdom of God and point to some interpretations.

Because we disagree on the proper method of baptism, the role of women in the church or the proper interpretation of a certain Biblical passage does not make one of us correct and the other a «false teacher».

Maybe one reason that some people seem to have strange biblical interpretations is because they haven't spent enough time handling the real thing.

The biblical history is meaningful, because of the interpretation of events supplied by the Word of God through prophetic men — an interpretation which, as we have seen, is itself creative of events.

And this is the compass of people we should remember to call «moderates» and somehow give all of them a free pass just because they are not extremists at the moment on any particular Biblical interpretation?

The motion picture industry fails utterly and with almost unexceptional regularity in its stupendous efforts to reproduce segments of the biblical story because it assumes a self - validating character in the divine disclosure and is apparently unable to deal with the admittedly difficult, illusive, and profound factor of interpretation.

It is reality because it is the obvious result of Biblical interpretation that faces us today in the world, where yours is only but one.

Interpretation: i never thought of this before, so she must be wrong because i'm not ready to have my beliefs challenged by a Biblical scholar.

Every bit as fusty as Robin Hood, Ridley Scott's biblical epic takes two off - beat, more or less mutually exclusive interpretations of Exodus — God is a delusion motivated by Moses» latent guilt; God is real, but only helping the Jews because he wants to punish the Pharaohs for deifying themselves — and flattens them into...