Sentences with phrase «biblical authority there»

In addition to sociology, tradition, and biblical authority there is Luther's teaching on marriage and family life.

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There is no biblical authority to put anything into law based on biblical beliefs.

As I have argued in a previous book, Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice, there is no set procedure or program for controlling this theological dialogue.

There those in authority, in churches, who perpatrate expectations, and use pressure of things not biblical.

its male predominance), or are there deeper principles implicit in the texture of the Biblical fabric which make male authority a cultural, and thus relative, affair?

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.

The heat generated by this topic is witness to the fact that we are, in Pinnock's words, «close to the heart of the conception of religious authority in our evangelical confession, which «limits the ground of religious authority to the Bible.3» There is a «deep relationship between origin and authority» that can not be ignored.4 Thus discussion concerning the implications of inspiration is of interest to all evangelicals who seek to be Biblical Christians.

There is biblical authority and historical precedent for mass evangelism.

Besides the biblical and legal grounds for reporting suspected abuse to the civil authorities, there are also practical reasons to do so.

If ever there was a homogeneous version of this tradition in national life; if ever, after legal disestablishment, a faith was re-established in the popular ethos; if ever there was agreement on biblical authority, on God, Jesus, heaven and hell and the true, the beautiful and the good, then it was in the high years of what one of my book titles terms the Protestant Righteous Empire.

As far as the color, race or whatever of the Jews in Biblical times it stands as a mute subject because none of us were there so there so no one is a true authority of such trivial things.

There is one teaching authority, the pope, who both originates and finalizes such «truth,» without having to listen to or be corrected by other sources of insight such as the sensus fideli (the actual beliefs and practices of the people) and the scholarly reflections of biblical exegetes and theologians.