Sentences with phrase «biblical narrative»

Today, however, biblical scholars increasingly analyze the plot of biblical narratives, the way the literary forms work, the patterns of climax and tension.

And the same contrast is found in biblical narratives.

In fact, it is a story that we can find at - odds with redemption throughout the entire biblical narrative.

Augustine's «misstep,» he believes, is that, in trying to square Greek metaphysics with biblical narrative, he finally opted for the timeless deity of the Greeks.

Placker presents an appreciative summary of Hans Frei's understanding of biblical narrative as neither moral teachings nor historical accounts, but rather as primarily narrative.

In an early negative judgment on Frei, Carl F. H. Henry summarized the problem: Narrative theology drives a wedge between biblical narrative (which it plays up) and historical factuality (which it plays down).

If biblical narratives do not derive their meaning by referring to historical events or ontological realities, how can biblical theology be anything more than a symbolic or mythical construct?

These three persistent elements of revelation are already present in the story of Abraham, and they recur in numerous other biblical narratives.

As stated, Days of Heaven is largely thought to be borne out of various biblical narratives, and also a self - conscious homage to certain silent films, which makes one curious as to why particularly silent films are being evoked.

One would have to agree, however, that divine omnicausality certainly dominates in many biblical narratives.

Which is o.k.. It's just the way you start your statement, makes it almost sound as if it is «fact» vs. opinion in reality... * outside of the literal Biblical narrative story as it is written.

Knust shows absolutely no awareness of Biblical exegesis, hermeneutics, genre, social and historical context, or even a rudimentary understanding of what's prescriptive or descriptive text in some of the historical Biblical narratives.

I suggest that the whole biblical narrative, including Jesus, as well as all subsequent theology, is one vast story illustrating the simple fact that, in the end, we are all one, connected to each other and to our common Ground of Being.

that is, the mixing of indigenous traditions with Christian biblical narratives, are not only identified but often encouraged as a continuing creative practice.

Nothing in the Bible proposes such a faith — quite the contrary, the entire Biblical narrative demands one analyze and come to conclusions.

To be sure, much of the ensuing biblical narrative is about Abraham's faithfulness when tested.

Drawing on his scholarly research on evangelical and Pentecostal Christian movements in Latin America, he places them alongside voluntary religion in Britain and the United States as examples of what he argues to be a more general phenomenon: that such forms of Christianity employ the core biblical narratives more centrally than others and are deeply pacifistic in their relation to the larger national culture.

The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative offered a richly detailed survey of the ways 18th - and 19th - century theologians overlooked the narrative character of scripture, but fundamentally, Frei argued, there were two main strategies by which modernist (and modernist - influenced) theologians reconstrued scriptural meaning.

Tomorrow I take up the question of how the death penalty fits into the broader biblical narrative concerning Jesus Christ.

It is often alleged that post-liberals — especially those who, like Placher, wish to employ biblical narrative within a cultural - linguistic conception or religion — are sort on truth claims.

On the other, research into pagan literature contemporary with the Bible has shown that the miracles performed by Moses, Elijah, Elisha, Jesus, and the apostles are wholly unique in their non-random, non-arbitrary nature and in terms of the integral role they play in the overall biblical narrative.

This special symbolic representation of mystery is, of course, part of a larger set of biblical narratives telling in many ways about the presence of God and the divine promise in history.

This monumental work is the latest in Furnas's series of Red Sea paintings in which large swaths of saturated pigments and dye gesturally traverse the picture plane and allude to diverse biblical narratives, including the parting of the Red Sea in the Book of Exodus.

As part of his celebrated Floods series, the work evokes biblical narratives — the red stain could be interpreted as blood in some apocalyptic scene, or else a deluge flooding the picture plane.

One impetus to the interest in biblical narrative was the creation in the 1960s and «70s or departments of religious studies in nondenominational colleges and public universities.

Theologians and professors of preaching are saying that awareness of our own histories helps us discover how our personal narratives intersect with biblical narratives.

Every reviewer who criticises the Noah movie for not sticking to the literal Biblical narrative, should be made to review the next sermon (illustration) they hear (or give) on the same basis...

I have studied many other theologies and the theology of the cross that Luther took directly from Paul pretty much (in my mind) makes thebest sense of the entire biblical narrative.

The origin of the universe, origin of life on earth, resurrection of Jesus, historicity of the Jewish nation, historicity of the biblical narrative.

The demonstrated historical accuracy of the biblical narrative in all accounts, the Gospel of Luke alone has hundreds of verified historical accuracies.

The historian said: «Familiarity with the biblical narrative of the crucifixion has dulled our sense of just how completely novel a deity Christ was.

Did you know that in Biblical narratives, God — as He is portrayed by the human author — is just another character?

Many people who claim to be Christian do not trust the Biblical narrative, but choose to make it up themselves or listen to someone else who has cooked something else up out of their own gray matter.

Even a cursory reading of the biblical narrative will reveal that YHWH is the self existent one, the one alone in whom righteousness dwells.More to the point, nobody.

I think it is incredibly unfair for you to make out that anyone who is struggling to work out what they believe, and finding it difficult to «trust the Biblical narrative,» as you put it, is only «claim [ing] to be Christian.»

It shows me either a willful disregard for the flow of the biblical narrative or simply lack of familiarity.