Sentences with phrase «biblical concept of»

Social conservatives believe that, at the very least, the biblical concept of creation should be taught as an alternative to the evolution theory.

Many well - meaning Christians today are unaware that the biblical concept of «holiness» is derived from the word «separate.»

Moments before the 40 - something stood, I had shared about the biblical concept of shalom.

This phrase has grown in popularity with Christian leaders as a useful way to frame environmentalism as a biblical concept of being good stewards of the world God created.

(15) He therefore prefers the biblical concept of «fellowship» or «communion» as more appropriate than «unity.»

His subject, as one might expect, was theology and the philosophy of science, and he argued that the biblical concept of the Holy spirit may provide the missing link, so to speak, in the controversy over whether mind or language has precedence in the creation of human thought.

Our analysis of the biblical concept of revelation has prepared for us a first degree analogical use of the term and here we are led to a second degree analogy.

Though judgment carries negative connotations in our minds, the biblical concept of judgment is not always negative.

In this he emphasised the Greco - biblical concept of «Logos» as that «foundational wisdom of the universe.»

Now the interpretation of the perfecting of the human / word process, leading to a threshold of radical change, is both in keeping with the pattern of evolutionary change evidenced in the natural world, and the biblical concept of the eschaton as the threshold of the new aeon, and the total transformation of humanity and cosmos.

It's these ideas — not the biblical concept of an actual Satan — that serve as motivation for their high - profile civic activities.

This corruption of the fundamental biblical concept of conscience into self - interest is one of the most serious of all the electronic church «s distortions.

For a Biblical concept of justice has been the real concern of a few of these writers.58 Evidence is of course mixed, but the overwhelming thrust of Scripture's discussion of «social justice» suggests the following Biblical definition: «to each according to his or her needs» Rather than act on the basis of society's most common definitions of «social justice» those of merit or equality - the Christian seeking a Biblically derived social ethic must respond, first and foremost, on the basis of need.

Judaism has always held belief in the biblical concept of Teshuvah, which means «return to God».

The last point in Exodus Nineteen that casts light upon our understanding of the Ten Commandments is the biblical concept of the otherness of God.

Closely related to Buber's concept of direction is the Biblical concept of emunah, or trust.

The Biblical concept of holiness is that of a power capable of exerting both a destructive and a hallowing effect.

Yes, there is the biblical concept of being «in Christ.»

Genetic science proves that wrong and that while the first humans may have evolved from one subhuman species, all subsequent humans, from every race, were descendant from those first humans - thus confirming the very biblical concept of all humans having a common ancestor.

The biblical concept of holiness is equivalent to the idea of being whole, and so should our understanding of ways we can participate in God's work of justice, both in our local communities and in the global community.

But there is here no attempt to reconceive the Augustinian notion of sacrament as «sign» in the light of the biblical concept of mystery.

Genetic science proves that wrong and that while the first humans may have evolved from one subhuman species, all subsequent humans, from every race, were descendant from those first humans — thus confirming the very biblical concept of all humans having a common ancestor.

I have been searching all my adult life for the biblical concept of ekklesia — a gathering led by the presence of God where ordinary people are free to share and minister to one another according to 1 Corinthians 14:26.

Instead, Greenberg came to a new understanding based on the biblical concept of covenant and the rabbinic concept of hester panim» God's hiding His face.

But the Biblical concept of prayer, as practiced by Christ Himself as a model for us, is to seek and obtain God's will, and they pray for God's will to be done (even if that means going to the cross).

The United Church of Christ's study paper, Christian Faith and Economic Life (1987), for example, declares that the purpose of the church's political advocacy must be «to achieve the biblical concept of economic justice.»

The biblical concept of the jubilee year (Lev.

It further asserted that the biblical concepts of dominion and stewardship were «arrogant» and to be rejected.

A condition of community is described in the biblical concepts of salvation and shalom.

Perhaps, the most influential and enduring concept, which to some extent subsumed other biblical concepts of mission, is missio Dei (mission of God).

«Because we have forgotten the biblical concepts of true authority and submission, or more accurately, have rebelled against them, we have created a climate in which caricatures of authority and submission intrude upon our lives with violence.

In Part Two we will take an in - depth look at the biblical concepts of the temple, sacrifice and the law in order to understand them in their biblical context.

Not exact matches

Because of a court case in Louisiana that expressly forbid Biblical Creationism being taught in school science classes, the wording changed and the authors removed references to catastrophism, a world - wide flood, a recent inception of the earth or life, the concept of kinds, or any concepts from Genesis.

The fact of the matter is, Paul nor any other Biblical writer had any concept of responsible, monogamous, loving gay relationships as we do today.

The Bible and the universe Thus it was not the biblical perspective but the Greek view of the cosmos — in which everything revolved around a stationary earth — that was to guide man's concept of the universe for many centuries.

I / we need to understand your concept [hopefully biblical], so we can make a intellectual and conscience decision to join the community of freedom you propose.

Regarding the author's attempt to apply the concept of Biblical retaliation to the current situation, the author should not place himself in the position where he is known to be a fool by opening his mouth.

It affirmed the centrality of evangelism in this concept of mission, and provided an authoritative definition of evangelism: «the proclamation of the historical, biblical Christ as Saviour and Lord, with a view to persuading people to come to him personally and so be reconciled to God»

Downing takes it a step further and says, «it is no coincidence that the concept of biblical inerrancy developed in nineteenth - century England almost simultaneously with Darwin's idea of natural selection: both were influenced by Enlightenment empiricism.»

So, is the concept of biblical inerrancy nothing more than a byproduct of modern rationalism?

It reminds me a bit of my days as a student at Bryan College, when I first bumped into the concept of «biblical womanhood» after some students questioned whether women should be allowed to run for president of the student body.

Moltmann offers a far - ranging biblical dogmatic centering on the concept of promise.

Using a broad sweep of biblical history from Genesis to Revelation, Dr. Streett shows that the concept of the Kingdom of God on earth was at the center of the hopes and dreams of Israel, and when John the Baptist and Jesus carried out their ministries, they were announcing the arrival and inauguration of this Kingdom in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

One need not be surprised if in the conflict between the apparent implications of Biblical concepts, understood to be analogical, with metaphysical concepts, understood to be univocal, it is the implications of the Biblical concepts that give way.

In undertaking a non-religious interpretation of Biblical and theological concepts such as he proposes, Bonhoeffer believes the church would only be permitting the Bible to assume its own true character; for the Bible knows nothing of the «religious» in the sense enumerated above.

He even confessed that «I am only gradually working my way to the non-religious interpretation of Biblical concepts; the job is too big for me to finish just yet.

There is here a summary of Bultmann's controversial method of Biblical interpretation, which tries to recover the deeper meaning behind the mythological concepts of the New Testament.

The critique of religion, as we enumerated it in the preceding paragraphs, confronted Bonhoeffer immediately with a new problem: finding a non-religious language to interpret the Biblical and theological concepts.

«38 Thus Bonhoeffer exhorts us to interpret the Biblical concepts in terms of responsible involvement m life itself.

Accepting the biblical understanding of love as central to any human concept of the divine is at the heart of Williams» enterprise, directly challenging the Augustinian formulation as a corruption of this.23 Love is «spirit taking form in history.»