Sentences with phrase «biblical material»

Young evangelicals have been overwhelmed to discover the extent of biblical material related to themes of social justice — material largely ignored in the theology and writings of their elders.

They go on to justify this combination of agenda with biblical material by saying that the many religious elements help strengthen the vitality of the treatment.

Specific kinds of biblical material have been shaped for specific purposes and are best understood in terms of those uses.

The movie's so - called sex scenes are throwaways, and, ironically, it presents biblical material with the literal - mindedness of a fundamentalist preacher from Oklahoma.

Biblical materials certainly form a commedia in both senses.

Ecological theologies that are shaped by biblical materials require a thorough analysis of the various views of nature held by biblical writers.

Is there a flaw here in one's use of Scripture or is it in the nature of Biblical materials that singleness of theme can be achieved only by their violation?

Nor was all of that — and there is a lot of it in the First Treatise — the end of Locke's serious wrestling with biblical materials.

Read the gospels and biblical material.

And in a way meditation on biblical material is just that: after all the other «senses» have been exhausted, there is the imaginative approach that will make it possible for the reader to grasp the big meaning of what he is reading.

Biblical materials and affirmations — in this case the symbolism of Creator and creation — are treated as though of the same order and the same literary genre as scientific and historical writing.

Recent expansions of curricular materials, in addition to the sexuality unit, have moved into situational ethics, cultural anthropology, and a very open exploration of biblical materials and works of religious experiences.

Such a principle of historical thinking has led to significant reinterpretation of biblical materials, including the miracle traditions about Jesus, the resurrection, and the ascription of titles of divinity to Jesus.

Hunger and poverty can not be separated in analyzing the biblical material.

It is therefore all the more surprising that in calling upon local churches to respond to hunger issues so little recourse has been made to biblical materials.

The richness and diversity of the biblical material represent an invaluable resource, and for the church to recognize and appropriate these scriptural insights is to begin the renewal of our theological perspective.

A journal from the evangelical wing of Christianity, the Journal of Psychology and Theology, frequently includes papers on the relevance of modern psychological models to biblical materials, not the least of which is the correlation between biblical ethical and eschatological statements and behavioral modification.

In emphasizing mastery of facts and ideas, I am not advocating a return to the sterile procedures of rote memorization of extensive creedal or biblical material.

Each has been something of an experiment to see how the biblical material might be read afresh from a canonical perspective, even though Childs himself would eschew the term «experimentation.»

From Childs's perspective, the nature of the biblical material itself makes interpretation inescapably theological.

The nature of the biblical material itself makes interpretation inescapably theological.

The second point to make... turns on the theological role of the editors in shaping the biblical material to render it in light of the larger literary collection.

Those less curious or informed about theological intricacies might want to approach the declaration through the biblical material treated in the opening sections.

Doubtless the biblical material on the subject is in highly metaphorical poetic, or (if you will) mythological language.

Those who voice this charge look upon the traditional procedure of stating the thesis and dividing it into points as straightforward, «coming right out with it», while induction is sneaking up on the congregation and slipping in your biblical material when they are not looking.

If we tried to use it as such a vehicle would not the Biblical material burst through the very form of the modern mythology?

The way we commonly try to apply it to contemporary life is largely based on cherry - picking the verses we like and ignoring vast swathes of the biblical material.

However, the biblical material is heavily reworked to suit the Islamic message.

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.

Such a reduction of the biblical material, however, not only unjustly belittles the legitimate achievements of science.

One of the important points about the new spirituality is how to read the biblical materials in terms of a dominant concern of our times namely the removal of present oppressive structures.