Sentences with phrase «biblical hermeneutics»

However, the call is not for the mainstream of biblical hermeneutics in scholarly circles.

See J. Severino Croatto, «Biblical Hermeneutics in the Theologies of Liberation,» Irruption of the Third World: Challenge to Theology, eds.

This small anthology, with critical introduction, is designed to make Ricoeur's thinking on biblical hermeneutics available to a wider audience than has up to now been part of the dialogue.

The earliest and most developed of these is African - American biblical hermeneutics.

Having been an Atheist, I can easily see the pick and choose method the esteemed columnist uses is a far cry from biblical hermeneutics.

Unraveling the significance of the stories is easier if we distinguish the four layers of interpretation identified in medieval biblical hermeneutics: literal, moral, analogical, and anagogical.

Whereas the various perspectives discussed so far under the rubric of cultural hermeneutics are distinctively Christian, the same can not be said for feminist biblical hermeneutics.

Finally, Noll's fascinating conclusion that Protestant colonists were most apt to apply biblical teaching to public life when they had an anxious relationship with the wider social order seems to imply a fundamental and revealing link between biblical hermeneutics and cultural anxiety.

What the left finds distasteful and dangerous about evangelicalism is not just its conservative biblical hermeneutic, but more importantly, its anti-Communism, opposition to socialism, and — conversely — its free market and pro-business orientation.

(It is not necessary for the sake of the present argument to share this chapter's high evaluation of Niebuhr's book, nor to consent to Niebuhr's analysis and judgment upon the ideas of others who are presently busy with biblical hermeneutics.

In my opinion the more recent debate about biblical hermeneutics suffers from just such a narrowing of our horizon.

Both sides, however, have been coming to a growing appreciation of each other's concerns, with mainline denominations placing more emphasis on biblical hermeneutics and theological conservatives sounding the call to contextualize theology.

[26] R. S. Sugirtharajah, «Textual Cleansing: From a Colonial to a Postcolonial Version,» Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), p. 96.

But African - American biblical hermeneutics has also attended to texts and issues that have been important to the lives of the African - American community: for instance, the Exodus narratives, the place of slavery in Israelite and early Christian reflection, and the preaching of Jesus.

A number of communions have done for evangelism what for too long has been done only for Christian education and stewardship: provided extensive training processes, with all the hallmarks of sound pedagogy, insight into personal and social psychology, and good biblical hermeneutics.

Latin American liberation theology also functions emphatically as a biblical hermeneutic and in this respect is encouraged.

The structure of the report, combined with these explicit statements, indicates clearly that what is called for is biblical hermeneutics.

Such an approach leads to creative thinking and approaches to biblical hermeneutics, rather than simply consigning something to the trash bin of «error.»

Biblical hermeneutics has rightly alerted us to the problems involved in biblical interpretation.

The interpretation developed in the base Christian communities was paralleled by the work of theologians and biblical scholars, who articulated the principles of liberation hermeneutics in a series of important studies (see, especially Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology, and J. Severino Croatto, Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production of Meaning).

To reject the task of Biblical hermeneutics would be theological suicide.

This is a test of the discipline of biblical hermeneutics, which deals with the principles governing the interpretation of Scripture, is presently in crisis.

Heidegger offers a general suggestion about it — one that we need to adapt to biblical hermeneutics: «By the re-trieving of a fundamental problem we understand the disclosure of its original potentialities that have long lain hidden» (translated by William Richardson: Heidegger Through Phenomenology to Thought, p. 93).

Lind is a Mennonite, so readers will be pretty sure where he is heading with his analysis, but if they have an interest in the fine points of biblical hermeneutics, the journey on which he takes them is quite enlightening.

What scares me, though, is the uncritical and unthoughtful way in which so many churches and movements are simply adapting to our mass culture without any sort of critique based on a well thought out biblical hermeneutic.

Phyllis Tickle on why the biblical hermeneutics of the 16th century Reformers no longer resonates with many people in contemporary society whether they are Christian or secular:

Two articles by Gerald T. Sheppard provide greater detail: «Biblical Hermeneutics: The Academic Language of Evangelical Identity,» Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 32 (Winter I977), 81 - 94; «Word and Spirit: Scripture in the Pentecostal Tradition: Part One,» Agora: A Magazine of Opinion within the Assemblies of God [no longer published], I, No. 4 (Spring 1978), 4 - 22; and»... Part Two,» 2, No.