Disagreement about the relation between baptism and church membership, about the relation
between biblical criticism and biblical restorationism, and about the administration of missionary work split the Christian Church again in the 20th century.
Not exact matches
In fact, one of the more constructive
criticisms I've heard from the complementarian camp is that, in the book, I did not make clear enough distinctions
between how various complementarian organizations differ in their positions on
biblical womanhood.
In this way, rhetorical
criticism fills the gap
between historical and sociological approaches to
biblical study.
There is a fascinating story here to be told - but one which would take us too far afield from this discussion - about the intricate interplay
between the crises of
biblical authority and Christian belief on the one hand and the rise of the novel and the growth of art history and literary
criticism on the other.
After many years of historical
criticism, in which the interest was in dating the various pieces of
biblical material, there came literary
criticism, in order to establish the relationship
between these pieces — in the New Testament especially with respect to the four gospels.