Sentences with phrase «biblical narratives»

Jack Levine (January 3, 1915 — November 8, 2010) was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.

From portraits, figure studies, and landscapes to mythological and biblical narratives, the drawings represent a dynamic array of sacred and secular subjects in media ranging from metalpoint, pen and ink, and chalk to graphite, pastel, and charcoal.

It is arrived at by inventing far - fetched rationalistic explanations of the most obviously legendary details in the biblical narratives.

December (Obedience): - Created to Be His Helpmeet by Debi Pearl - Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce - Quivering Daughters: Hope and Healing for the Daughters of Patriarchy by Hillary McFarland - Texts of Terror: Literary - Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives by Phyllis Trible

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

The Biblical narratives are clear testimony to this divine compassion.

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.

The biblical narratives about the ancestors are colored over with religious and political ideals of later periods of Israel's history and hopes.

We are dismayed by interpretations of biblical narratives — like Cecil B. DeMille's epics — that focus on their special - effects potential, such as Jesus» disappearing like some movie ghost.

The biblical narratives and related writings are used in the activities comprising the community's common life to help shape and even transform the personal identities of the group's members.

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?

For this reason, the longing for a radically new future, especially in the Biblical narratives, seems to originate in the awareness of those who feel they have been excluded and that they do not really belong (We may wonder whether any of us ever belong completely to a societal situation.

For this reason, the longing for a radically new future, especially in the Biblical narratives, seems to originate in the awareness of those who feel they have been excluded and that they do not really belong (the poor, the marginalized.

This temporal limitation is a hard nut, for the world view which provides the mythological framework of the Biblical narratives can not be corrected or translated into a modern mythology.

To the chutnification of language and history, I would like to add biblical narratives, and in doing so it will not only rid them of their ideological trappings and contest received interpretations, but also inject them with new flavour and taste.

Barth did not deny that there are myths and even outright fairy tales in the materials out of which some of the biblical narratives were constructed.

Accepting the notion that biblical narratives are the product of many layers of oral tradition, they see scripture as paradigmatic of humanity's interpretation of the experience (there is no such thing as uninterpreted experience!)

It was only when this rigid view of scripture came to be questioned, and eventually abandoned by most, that men were free to examine the historicity of the many biblical narratives with the tools of historical method.

expert will tell you, it is super hard to tell if your pattern matching of actual events to Biblical narratives (vague and disjointed though they may appear) is accurate until new events happen that break your hypothesis and then you have to start over.

And the same contrast is found in biblical narratives.

Then why should these worse than useless self - conscious phrases continue to weaken and scatter attention drawn by the preacher to Biblical narratives or to the life scenes about him?

In The Fidelity of Betrayal, Rollins goes on to criticize the Western Church's almost frantic attempt at «closing over this traumatic rent in the text» by affirming some biblical narratives over others and by explaining away passages that are inconsistent with favored narratives.

(3) Biblical narratives must be evaluated by biblical norms: for it is not safe to infer that because God caused an event to be recorded in Scripture he approved it and means us to approve it too.

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

Phyllis Trible subtitles her book Texts of Terror, «Literary - Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives,» packing several «new» methodologies into a phrase.

Upon re-examining the biblical narratives in the light of these insights I find new ways of interpreting them which involve no immoral Scripture - twisting.

A Christian theology that respects the meaning of the biblical narratives must begin simply by retelling those stories, without any systematic effort at apologetics, without any determined effort to begin with questions arising from our experience.

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

Christianly speaking, one grows conceptually by having one's abilities and capacities in relation to language — and therewith to ritual action, normative patterns of behavior, exemplary persons, music, art, etc. disciplined by just these biblical narratives.

That God is constant in God's purposes goes without saying insofar as the biblical narratives are concerned.

But perhaps the most peculiar characteristic of nearly all biblical narratives is their «vernacular» nature.

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

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.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

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.

= > no fiction book ever says that I pointed out the text analysis that person did to juxtapose it with the authenticity of the biblical narrative.

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.

If there is one overriding theme throughout the biblical narrative, it is this: God is sovereign above all.

The frequency of these seems to me that people are out to disprove the biblical narrative.

I'm also familiar with many findings (some are somewhat obscure) that support the biblical narrative.

«The tone of the writing, the format of the page, and the directness of the dialog allows the tradition of passing down the biblical narrative to come through in «The Voice.»»

This month's synchroblog challenges us to ask the question: «What if some or all of the biblical narrative is not necessarily true history, but is myth of one sort or another?»

But, in the biblical narrative, the spirit of the individual lives on in heaven in communion with God and others or eternally separated from the Creator.

In the times of the biblical narrative Jesus is healing lepers, raising people from the dead, controlling nature.

The Protestant communions increasingly act like new churches, uprooted from the catholic tradition and the biblical narrative.

It's biblical narrative, but in short story form, but it doesn't end there.

In our biblical narrative, the other ten disciples are indignant when they hear what is asked for the two brothers.