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How can I help my teen see a truly Biblical perspective on her life instead of the mainstream view?

Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper An executive for a non-profit and columnist, Harper brings a deeply biblical perspective on race and equality.

The lecturer was setting forth a biblical perspective on the role of government, with special attention to the Pauline text in Romans 13.

The more realistic biblical perspective on human nature makes it possible to realize that a marriage may not be a union in which personalities are well balanced.

In general, a biblical perspective on the power of physical intimacy suggests that the sexual bond between two persons can be a force for good or evil because it is full of mystery, grace, and the fascination of the unknown.

Cf.. His 38 (February 1978); «Behind Closet Doors: The Door Looks at Homosexuality,» The Wittenburg Door 39 (October - November 1977); «A Biblical Perspective on Homosexuality and Its Healing,» Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 29 (September 1977): 103 - I10; Lynn Buzzard, «How Gray Is Gay?»

My intent here is to give a Biblical perspective on things.

He suggested the proposal doesn't follow the Biblical perspective on how we should treat «outsiders».

Although I believe that modern Christians can be instructed by biblical perspectives on church and family, I am not advocating a return to some earlier time when the church may seem to have been more faithful.

The Bible knows only a love ethic, which is constantly being brought to bear on whatever sexual mores are dominant in any given country, or culture, or period» («Biblical Perspectives on Homosexuality,» The Christian Century, November 7, 1979)

Acknowledging the diversity of biblical perspectives on nature, Bishop Baker shows how the Bible combines concerns for creation with concerns for the transformation and redemption of the world, and how both sets of concerns have profound implications for an understanding of nature.

(John R. Donahue, S. J. «Biblical Perspectives on Justice,» In John C. Haughey, ed., The Faith that Does Justice (New York: Paulist Press, 1977), pp. 69 - 76, passim.

Christianity Today provides thoughtful, biblical perspectives on theology, church, ministry, and culture on the official site of Christianity Today Magazine.

Making Love Last a Lifetime: Biblical Perspectives on Love, Marriage and Sex By Adam Hamilton, 2004, 123 pages, Abingdon Press

Making Love Last a Lifetime: Biblical Perspectives on Love, Marriage and Sex By Adam Hamilton, 2004, 123 pages, Abingdon Press Reviewed by Jerry and Kim Mantooth, Former Better Marriages National Board Couple, Maryville, TN Marriage is a calling....

Based on secular research, his own experience as a counselor, surveys, and personal interviews, he provides biblical perspectives on the differences between men and women, rekindling love in difficult times, sexual intimacy, habits of unhealthy marriages, fidelity, and the role of faith in marriage.

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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.

I thought the Biblical perspective was that elders are to have a good repuration with outsiders and to be above reproach... and to not even have the appearance of evil... Sorry, on issues like this I'll take the apostle Paul over a magazine editor anyday.

They are also concerned that I presented and explored a variety of divergent perspectives on what «biblical womanhood» means (from Jewish, Catholic, Amish, feminist, polygamist, Christian fundamentalist and complementarian viewpoints, to name a few), including some viewpoints with which they do not agree.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

The 14 essays are divided into three categories: «Biblical and Historical Perspectives on Aging,» «Critical Perspectives on Modem Problems of Aging» and «The Christian Practice of Growing Old.»

Though we long for the Bible to weigh in on these issues and give us biblical perspectives or answers, we dare not impose such an obligation on the text.

Though there are numerous avenues that one might take in seeking to provide a non-Calvinistic perspective on Scripture, the route I have chosen is to emphasize the biblical teaching on «faith alone» and contrast it with what is often taught in Calvinism.

ii) here's one of the leading literary myth scholars of the last century giving a technical essay to biblical scholars on why (even if purely from a literary perspective) claiming Jesus is a myth fails to understand what a myth is.

The Christian community now possesses for the first time some excellent scholarly works on the treatment of homosexuality in Scripture, such as Robin Scroggs's The New Testament and Homosexuality (Fortress, 1984) and George Edwards's Gay / Lesbian Liberation: A Biblical Perspective (Pilgrim, 1984).

The biblical biopic, directed by Garth Davis, who Mara worked with on epic drama Lion, recounts the life and death of Jesus Christ from a female perspective.

Stephen B. Clark, Man and Woman in Christ (Ann Arbor: Servant, 1980); James B. Hurley, Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective (Leicester) InterVarsity Press; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1981); George W Knight III, The New Testament Teaching on the Role Relationship of Men and Women (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977); Fritz Zerbst, The Office of Woman in the Church (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1955); Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark), III 1, pp. 288 - 329, section 41 (1958); III 2, pp. 285 - 316, section 45 (1960); III 4, pp. 116 - 240, section 54 (1961).

Over against such a view, the biblical perspective stresses the contingency of natural order, as it is dependent on the free act of creation.

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.

All of these people have different perspectives on life and faith and the Bible, but what they all have in common is a commitment to some idea of «biblical womanhood.»

I doubt any Evangelical theologians have first hand knowledge — or as you put it; perspective on any of the «biblical» stories told, retold and written, thousands of years ago.

Liberation becomes the central perspective, a hermeneutical principle drawn from biblical sources and centering on the radical Jesus.

A decade later, Gutiérrez offered up a series of riffs on key biblical passages that extensively spell out the background perspective on God that informs his earlier explorations into liberation theology.

On the other hand, such activities require the perspective of Biblical faith which seeks the Kingdom of God on earth without falling into the illusion that we are going to bring this Kingdom into being by our own actions or that we can expect to participate in it within our own timOn the other hand, such activities require the perspective of Biblical faith which seeks the Kingdom of God on earth without falling into the illusion that we are going to bring this Kingdom into being by our own actions or that we can expect to participate in it within our own timon earth without falling into the illusion that we are going to bring this Kingdom into being by our own actions or that we can expect to participate in it within our own time.

Although it would be possible to defend such a view, which may be implied by some of the essays in these volumes on Biblical interpretation from a process perspective, I prefer not to do so for two reasons.

A response to David Kelsey s review of the two essay collections on Biblical interpretation from a process perspective must begin with a word of appreciation for this labor of love.

The process - relational model of God as the most extensive exemplification of primordial creativity, with every worldly occasion in its own process of becoming; the process - relational concept of God as the principle of order channeling the world's becoming toward ever richer and more harmonious experience (the primordial nature); and the process - relational concept of God's preservation of every worldly occasion in God's own everlasting becoming (the consequent nature), with each such occasion evaluated and positioned for its greatest possible contribution to the divine life — these perspectives on divine reality which process - relational thought claims to find exemplified in the very nature of things are separately and together congruent with and supportive of the biblical images and events which describe the «already» in inaugurated eschatology.»

I noticed an interview on the homepage of their Web site in which Anne Coulter was chosen to represent a «decidedly biblical perspective» on David Wheaton's Christian Worldview RadioProgram.

Coulter's perspective on the self - inflicted «victimization» of the poor and oppressed not only lacks biblical support; it is anti-biblical.

In many cases homiletical texts recommend a method of reading scriptures aloud to gain an experiential perspective on biblical texts and also to understand their bases in orality.

Confronted with this kind of reality, our present concern calls for a perspective on baptism which differs from the more usual biblical or theological approaches.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

This training includes, as a major component, a detailed rationale for the Church's teaching on sexuality and relationships in general and sexual intercourse in particular from biblical, theological and philosophical perspectives.

The biblical faith came into contact with Greek thought, and this cross-fertilization led to a new perspective on the world.

Heidelberg, Germany About Blog The Christian Left is an open fellowship of Christian Progressives.Blog seeks to express the places where because of biblical perspectives, we see political priorities differently than our brothers and sisters on the Right.

As Christians, we share a lot on this site about finance from a Biblical perspective.

Heidelberg, Germany About Blog The Christian Left is an open fellowship of Christian Progressives.Blog seeks to express the places where because of biblical perspectives, we see political priorities differently than our brothers and sisters on the Right.

About Blog Stephen's deep knowledge of biblical literature reveals a new and thought - provoking perspective on a range of ancient and contemporary mysteries.

Designed for use by therapists, educators, and workshop leaders who want to blend Gottman research on relationships with a Biblical perspective in order to build stronger relationships.

Heidelberg, Germany About Blog The Christian Left is an open fellowship of Christian Progressives.Blog seeks to express the places where because of biblical perspectives, we see political priorities differently than our brothers and sisters on the Right.