Sentences with phrase «biblical language»

A more far - reaching example is when somebody recognizes you for what you are, knows you, to use Biblical language, and accepts that.

Now comes the part where you say that this statement doesn't say the original biblical language was Latin and you totally ignore the implications of the quote.

As for biblical language, it also seems to be in decline.

Biblical language elsewhere suggests that the answer to this second question is No.

Often he used biblical language, also that of the early Church and of the medieval schools.

The Prison Fellowship, founded by Chuck Colson, draws on Biblical language of forgiveness to support a dramatic narrowing of collateral consequences.

Or do we reach the true meaning of Biblical language by passing through a process of secularization that stills all human language about God, thereby allowing man to respond passively in faith to the full and final language of God?

Although the emphasis on biblical languages declined, and the new sciences, including the social sciences, were given large place, these colleges resisted practical training in favor of liberal arts, understood in a humanistic, Christian perspective.

At one time, Protestants were more familiar with biblical language and the content of the Bible than they are today.

The genius of Protestantism has been its emphasis on what is described in biblical language as «salvation by grace through faith.»

Liturgical innovation and church school curricula have often abandoned biblical language and instruction in counterproductive attempts at relevancy.

Often biblical language concerning divine transcendence has implied, not simply that God is partially constituted by subjective feelings of her own, but that God has the power to exercise an effective influence in the world, particularly in times of crisis and particularly by offering new and hopeful possibilities for responding to such crises.

Oz and his daughter examine the role words and language, especially biblical language, have played in binding the Jewish people to their heritage.

The family circle where biblical language got bartered and nurtured is broken.

Are they to feel like second - class Christians because they don't know the «inspired biblical languages»?

Even the Reformation with its return to biblical language did not provide too great a strain.

If language is no longer thought to refer to something beside itself, we are free to use biblical language quite uncritically.

Is the new language that will communicate both divine and fully human existence to man once again a language going beyond and transcending Biblical language?

This is what biblical language about God is as well: It was contemporary to its time, relevant and secular — God as shepherd, vinekeeper, father, king, judge and so forth.

In this book, as elsewhere, Levenson's sensitivity to biblical language guides his own style of theology.

``... The rhetoric of «worldliness,» like other biblical language, is often misused.

The Baroque, Biblical language represents a slender bulwark against the Void, and Carter Burwell's soundtrack supplies a rickety piano playing hymns and old - time music.

Some of these men were well - trained scholars in Biblical languages, and they edited journals to support their point of view.

The religious use of biblical language about masters and servants and slaves and redemption and bought with a price and bondservant and lord and service and unquestioning obedience, etcetera, all come from an age when slavery was an assumed, acceptable and even enviable way of life.

furthermore... the original biblical language was Hebrew or some strain of it... but of course you knew that already.

Simple reassertions of biblical language by themselves have often proved inadequate.

It was not Kierkegaard or Chesterton or Barth — Updike's much - admired knights of Christian faith — who called God «the eternal not - ourselves» or who spoke of biblical language as a human net «thrown out at a vast object of consciousness.»

«Lincoln was less specific about his own experience and, while he used biblical language, it was less distinctively Christian or conversionistic than many of the evangelical preachers thought it should be,» Leonard says.

Much biblical language is refined and elevated, and while many Englishmen were doubtless delighted to discover Pharaoh had a proper butler, the KJV often sounded artificial and abstruse to them because the translators frequently followed biblical idiom and syntax and not the language and idiom of their contemporaries.

In environmental circles, that dogma is powerfully reinforced by the conventional polemic against the biblical language of domination.

As a scholar of the biblical languages, Peterson was frustrated that his parishioners in Maryland couldn't see how revolutionary the text was, during their Bible study classes.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

It appears in the end to be that the doctrine of analogy is required only for the preservation of the Biblical language about God.

The story makes innumerable references to the Bible, from the opening parody of biblical language in the description of Astor, to the parody of Pilate's questioning of Christ in the lawyer's interview with a mute Bartleby, to the seriously meant quotation from Job.

I can not attempt here a treatment of the biblical language of sacrifice, but I think I can safely assert that Christ's death does not, in the logic of the New Testament sources, fit the pattern of sacrifice I have just described.

At the time, he was seeking a non-Adventist researcher with a background in biblical languages and theology whom he could commission to research the topic thoroughly and provide him with the findings.