Sentences with phrase «biblical interpretation»

It is rare to see such ignorance in biblical interpretation.

I teach a course on biblical interpretation at a college.

Responding to atheism, understanding genetics, and considering what evolution means for biblical interpretation.

Breaking down biblical interpretation as nobody I've ever heard or read... Moving from the dawn of our existence to modern day in a way all of us can understand and interpret.

Does that mean I'm really good at biblical interpretation?

One of the things that I dropped along the way was any sense of literal biblical interpretation that I had left.

Biblical interpretations aside, universal healthcare is a proven success, at least compared to our bloated, wasteful system.

There are a number of academically viable options today concerning biblical interpretation, some of which I shall consider in this essay.

Of course they will have seen him by then, so why not, but I guess it's as good as any other biblical interpretation.

Where you can get into trouble here is trying to apply Biblical interpretation «as if» it «is» reality.

The rules of biblical interpretation require that we give any passage the obvious meaning the author intended in the context in which he writes.

Older critical method, for all its deficiencies, raised the stakes in proper biblical interpretation in ways that were threatening and immediately felt by most students.

That, above all, is where and when the work of biblical interpretation is done.

The only thing that is incompatible is a literal biblical interpretation and evolution.

Over the years, however, he has been trying his hand at biblical interpretation.

So a book about biblical interpretation in the context of ancient cosmological paradigms might not strike you as summer reading material, but please don't let that stop you from picking up a copy of The Lost World of Genesis One by Old Testament scholar John Walton.

I generally accept differences in biblical interpretation with a shrug of my shoulders.

Although it would be possible to defend such a view, which may be implied by some of the essays in these volumes on Biblical interpretation from a process perspective, I prefer not to do so for two reasons.

He is editor of Essays on Biblical Interpretation by Paul Ricoeur.

It only means that we must preach them critically in order to unmask them as texts promoting patriarchal violence (Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation) ~

As J. P. Sanders once said regarding biblical interpretation, «Anytime we read scripture and find ourselves right away on Jesus» side, we have probably misread the passage.»

We have come, then, to the unenviable position of having asserted that the absence of serious interpretation of the Biblical text endangers the Christian character of the sermon while the presence of such Biblical interpretation endangers the movement of the sermon, and the unity essential to that movement, both qualities being requisites for maximum effectiveness.

Traditional biblical interpretation held that the sun revolved around the earth.

Similarly, when it comes to biblical interpretation within evangelicalism, I've experienced a sort of «flattening - out» of Scripture in which the words of David carry the same weight as the words of Paul, which carry the same weight as the words of Christ.

1.1 have also been impressed by the excellent sets of questions focusing social aspects of biblical preaching listed by Forbes, «Social Transformation,» 51, and Ronald J. Allen, «Sociological Exegesis: Text and Social Reality,» Contemporary Biblical Interpretation for Preaching (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1984), 91 - 93.

While we are on this subject, how is it that those who take a high view of the Scriptures are known to produce less by way of creative biblical interpretation than those who either bracket the question or treat the text as a human document?

The absence of serious interpretation of the Biblical text endangers the Christian character of the sermon while the presence of such Biblical interpretation endangers the movement of the sermon, and the unity essential to that movement, both qualities being requisites for maximum effectiveness.

Think how boring and individualistic the Christian life would be if biblical interpretation were easy!

The challenge for feminist Biblical interpretation is to find another way, another approach that finds new ground, neither accepting blindly traditional interpretation nor ignoring the Bible as a useless ancient document.

About Blog The Orthodox The Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies (OCABS) was established to educate, inspire and challenge the faithful to recognize the centrality of sound biblical interpretation for life in Christ.

According to a common view of medieval academic thought, biblical interpretation worked with dull efficiency, as scholastics threw a net of logical, dogmatic coordinates over the books of the Bible in order to capture their meanings.

I believe Presbyterian PCA theology is the closest to true biblical interpretation.

PS I have a PhD in Biblical Studies, so I scrutinize issues of biblical interpretation very carefully.

This highly conservative Calvinist argues that because biblical interpretation «deals with a book that is unique in the realm of literature, viz. with the Bible as the inspired Word of God,» we must develop a sacred interpretative science of a «very special character (page 11).

To me it is clear that believing loving committed homosexual relationships are a sin is prejudice... just as when Biblical interpretation (influenced by social stigma and prejudice) was used to discriminate against women and racial minorities.

He (and Radical atheists who don't know better) got that from Rev. Ussher, a 19th century Seventh - Day Adventist pastor famous for his failed predictions for the rapture date, and wild Biblical interpretations.

Revisiting late medieval biblical interpretation, we may consider the delicacy of the hermeneutic circle formed by Scripture and tradition, appreciating the fragility of a synthesis that refuses to impose on ancient consensus a linear, hierarchical path to truth.

Biblical interpretation naturally absorbs a lot of ink; but «modern biblical scholars» will be surprised to learn that many of them regard miracle stories as fictions «designed to influence the common folk of an ancient and more simple time»: a view closer to old - fashioned anticlericalism of Thomas Paine's vintage than modern scholarship even of a radical stripe.

This discussion is complex, nuanced by all kind of factors like biblical interpretation, church tradition and local contexts.

In the review, I did not argue that only an «authoritative church» could solve the problem of divergent biblical interpretations.

One thing I appreciated about this brief overview was Wright's reminder that the Reformers didn't settle Christianity or biblical interpretation once and for all.

Moore calls on male church leaders to return to the scriptures and address biblical interpretations that lend themselves to gender violence.

Womanist biblical interpretation enriches every person and every community's understanding of the biblical text.