Sentences with phrase «biblical foundations for»

Let us begin with a brief statement of what is meant by the State, followed by a look at the biblical foundations for Christian decision.

Even though Dr. Spencer laid a strong biblical foundation for the role of women in ministry based on the New Testament, I still lived with the fear of once again being silenced by the church.

The primary biblical foundation for understanding family living as caring for the generations is in God's call to human beings in the first chapter of Genesis «to exercise care over the earth and hold it in its proper place.»

Most important, Pinnock's position allows him to maintain a strong Biblical foundation for his theology, while at the same time being open to new exegetical and critical insights.

The lack of a Biblical foundation for many of the Catholic tenets is a more likely reason for the mass exodus.

There is much more that could be said, but this is perhaps enough to provide a sufficient theological and biblical foundation for making up one's mind on the issue.

Why is it important to have a biblical foundation for such issues?

Not exact matches

God intimately chose His people, and this foreknowing is the foundation of His predestination, so if we were to translate the Biblical meaning of foreknowledge into Romans 8:29 it would read like this, «For those whom God intimately set His affection upon beforehand, He also predestined...» And this meaning is in sync with the rest of the Bible.

It is my contention that a biblical understanding of the cross leads necessarily to a nonviolent stance and, conversely, that only a fully biblical view of the cross and justification can provide an adequate foundation for nonviolence.

I, (and many biblical scholars and fellow Christians), would argue the point of these passages is not that patriarchy is the best foundation for marriage, but rather that the humility and service of Jesus Christ is the best example for marriage... and any relationship.

Then we must look, as we have done in other chapters, at the biblical and theological foundations for their solution.

My hope is that as evangelicals move beyond the modern paradigm of individual autonomy (particularly as it applies to biblical interpretation), we will begin to appreciate church tradition as an undeniable foundation for our faith.

The strong, biblical foundation which took root in his childhood has remained an important influence throughout his life, but by the time he went up to Cambridge, he was having doubts about whether evangelical Protestantism was for him.

For instance, a hypothetical public high school teacher who advanced New Age ideas and attitudes under a neutral or secular wrapping would be far less vulnerable to legal challenge than would be a teacher who spoke of God by name or who expounded on the biblical foundations of Western thought.

For theology is the translation of Christian truth into contemporary idiom with an eye toward Biblical foundations, traditional formulations, and contemporary judgments.

There's a very definite Biblical and doctrinal foundation for it.

For example, in this three - hundred - page book, the biblical foundation amounts to only two pages and seven quotations!

Forgiveness — after being explored through its biblical context and foundation first and foremost — can be examined through both scientific and psychological lenses; shedding light on the power of forgiveness for the soul, mind and body.

While Evangelicals find no biblical warrant for the doctrine of Purgatory, we together affirm with Paul, «If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

There is zero supporting evidence for the abiogenesis myth («life from non-life» foundation of atheism), but mountains of evidence for Jewish (Biblical) history, including written records by multiple authors, confirmed people, places, events, timelines, fulfilled prophesies, Israel scattered, Israel restored etc..

At each event, even those with diametrically opposed views, leaders cite biblical principles as the foundation for their beliefs.

The chapter headings give us an overview of the work: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ: the theological project of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique of criticism: beginning the search for a new theological synthesis; The hermeneutic of faith: critical and historical foundations for a biblical theology; The spiritual science of theology: its mission and method in the life of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity of revelation; The theology of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history of salvation; The embrace of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority of mystery: the beauty and necessity of the theologian's task.

When taken together with the biblical motif of promise, the notion of a divine kenosis may provide for our own situation today a solid and compelling foundation for a fresh theology of revelation.

It is to Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, and Micah that we are most apt to turn for the biblical foundations of social and economic justice.

Assuming that agape requires justice in human affairs, the author explores the implication of biblical love for social justice in its historical foundations, in the terms of justice, group loyalty, humanitarianism, protest, nonviolence and nurturance.

When we talk with biblical precision about the resurrection, we discover an excellent foundation for lively and creative Christian work in the present world — not, as some suppose, for an escapist or quietist piety.

Again, the way to try to resolve these disagreements is to challenge the specific biblical work that provides the foundation for the biblical generalizations.

Evangelical leaders could sit down privately twice a year for two days of confidential conversation to explain prayerfully and openly to each other the biblical foundations of their political views.

They related what they learned to their group's guiding beliefs — by discovering biblical and theological foundations for good ecology.

The hunting up of biblical or theological foundations for something (in this case optimism) that has already taken place is not a thing I wish to do here.

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The biblical foundation provided the belief in the rule of law and of law in nature that supported the search for nature's laws.