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The more salient criticism, however, is theological: the churches have determined wrongly that modern political economy is incompatible with biblical religion and thus to be dismissed from Christian consciousness.

14 Criticism ranged from outright rejection because the book was not Biblical or Christian enough to recognition of the genius of the work — with reservations concerning problems of coherence and intelligibility.

With the emergence of historical criticism as the dominant form of biblical interpretation, allegory was discredited as a feckless style of medieval exegesis that twisted the words and phrases of Scripture into arbitrary symbols of hidden truths.

My problems with this book are the same problems I have with nearly all books about biblical criticism: I believe the presuppositions of most of those who engage in biblical criticism are inherently flawed, and as a result, short - circuit the creative thinking that is necessary to discover solutions to the so - called problems in the biblical text.

Coupled with some of the tools of biblical criticism (such as the criteria of Embarrassment, Double Discontinuity and Multiple Attestation), he seeks to demonstrate the case for the origin of the Johannine tradition in the words and actions of the historical Jesus, as passed on by eyewitness accounts and possibly by John the son of Zebedee himself.

On the intensity of dialogue with the biblical text (and the biblical world) see also William A. Beardslee, Literaiy Criticism of the New Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1970), 10.

Historical criticism is quite compatible with warm appreciation, and to be a biblical critic does not imply anything adverse any more than it does to be a music critic or literary critic, who would be useless unless he had the capacity for appreciating what is good in his field.

It might be instructive to compare the role that biblical criticism played in the demystification of the Bible, with that of the Kinsey reports in the demystification of sex.

His criticisms of the technological mindset are powerful and convincing, and his calls for a spirit of «waiting» and «harkening» chime with a biblical view of man in relation to God, allowing post-Christians to evoke a theological sensibility without appealing to theology.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

Whereas Wellhausen had challenged the historical reliability of the biblical account on the grounds that it was compiled from multiple sources that originated long after the events reported, his intellectual successors a century later were employing methodologies (such as rhetorical criticism and narrative criticism) that seemed to assume that the biblical writers were not particularly concerned with historical accuracy anyhow.

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.

But in the nineteenth century this widespread confidence in the Bible was badly shaken, as biblical scholars began to study it with the modern tools of literary and historical criticism.

With liberal theology, the postliberal school takes for granted that the Bible is not infallible and that biblical higher criticism is fully legitimate and necessary.

Criticism of the term will not and probably should not abolish its use (though I, for one, believe a better historical case can be made for referring to «the biblical tradition»), but it may encourage citizens to regard it with suspicion.

The biblical theology to which he refers emerged after World War II as a consensus with certain characteristics: (1) the Bible is assumed to be relevant for modern men and women; (2) biblical criticism is to be accepted; (3) the message of the Bible is a unity, if a unity in diversity; (4) revelation is historical encounter rather than right doctrine; (5) the biblical (Hebraic) mentality is distinctive.

And what biblical scholars have called literary criticism — source analysis, the search for the author and his intention, redaction criticism as usually practiced (with some recent exceptions), etc. — are really forms of historical criticism.

Moreover, the impressive breadth of Ruether's argument makes her susceptible to criticism from a variety of quarters: biblical scholars may disagree with her interpretation of Paul; environmental scientists, with her figures on atmospheric carbon dioxide content; and agricultural and nutritional experts, with her recipe for relying on consumption of seasonal, locally produced foods.

If the mainline churches fail to enliven and strengthen their membership, what will happen to modern Christians — to those concerned with evolving creation, biblical criticism and social action?

Destructive biblical criticism, exemplified for years in the work of the so - called Jesus Seminar, eviscerates the gospel narratives of all theological power and leaves us, at best, with a Jesus made in our own image — political agitator, cynic sage, new age guru, etc..

Like many other old liberal Protestant ideas, Dibelius's view passed into wide circulation in the Catholic world when biblical studies engaged with modern historical criticism at the time of the Second Vatican Council.

About Blog Derrick's theological methodology is best described as a systematized biblical theology informed by historical critical investigation and insights from rhetorical and epistolary criticism, with an experiential element that Derrick likes to call doing theology in conversation with God.

About Blog Derrick's theological methodology is best described as a systematized biblical theology informed by historical critical investigation and insights from rhetorical and epistolary criticism, with an experiential element that Derrick likes to call doing theology in conversation with God.

About Blog Derrick's theological methodology is best described as a systematized biblical theology informed by historical critical investigation and insights from rhetorical and epistolary criticism, with an experiential element that Derrick likes to call doing theology in conversation with God.