Sentences with phrase «biblical narratives do»

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?

But the biblical narrative does not say that the Spirit took the form of a dove, nor that the devil appeared to Jesus as a living being.

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= > 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.

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

Such a detail does not appear in the biblical narrative.

He published the original version of The Identity of Jesus Christ: The Hermeneutical Bases of Dogmatic Theology in a Presbyterian adult education magazine called Crossroads in 1967, but it did not appear in book form until 1975 (Fortress), the year after he published The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth - and Nineteenth - Century Hermeneutics (Yale University Press, 1974).

Featuring a truly all - star voice cast back when stars were less inclined to do voice work (Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Jeff Goldblum and even Steve Martin got in the game), Prince of Egypt is largely faithful to the biblical narrative and even manages some real moments of human drama.

Ultimately this elliptical, even eccentric involvement of biblical themes, figures, and narratives does not make for a work of superior accomplishment in either religious or literary terms, whether by comparison to masterworks of the past or the finer novels in Coetzee's own oeuvre.

In the case of King Saul (the biblical narrative of preference for those on the «less supportive» side of the support - oppose the president spectrum), the scripture is clear that God wasn't thrilled about the idea of a monarchy in Israel at all, but did indeed choose Saul to be the man to occupy it (1 Samuel 8:1 - 22).

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.

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.

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.

I do not believe it an accident that one of the earliest stories in the biblical narrative has to do with the act of killing.

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.

Although Muslims and Christians do not share identical scriptures, the traditional Islamic view of the biblical narrative is nuanced and often very well informed.

Why does Biblical narrative defy modern European and American expectations?

Tillman asked about biblical genealogies that don't line up with other historical records, and parts within the biblical narrative that seem to contradict each other, no matter how nimble your hermeneutical acrobatics.

This easily dismissed material aside, Tóibín does generally follow the biblical narrative of Christ's life.

She has taken many Scriptural references out of context, and does not seem to understand the Biblical narrative as a whole.

His seminary education (where «I could concentrate on critical biblical scholarship because I already knew the biblical content and narratives so well») and his later faith experiences and human encounters made it possible for him to analyze and interpret his own history in a way that has freed him to preach from the totality of that experience to the totality of human experience, encompassing as it does suffering and celebration, alienation and reconciliation, sin and redemption.

The comeuppance often didn't justify the degrading nastiness its heroines endured, rendering the biblical bloodletting portion of these narratives minor when compared to their pukey preambles

While I'm still hoping this film will do justice to the Biblical Mary Magdalene and not play into the same false, sexist narrative she's had to deal with since the Middle Ages, I also hope that we eventually get a Biblical movie that depicts the events of the Bible in a more racially accurate way.