Sentences with phrase «biblical scholars see»
Most biblical scholars see this as a mistaken interpretation.
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As a scholar of the biblical languages, Peterson was frustrated that his parishioners in Maryland couldn't see how revolutionary the text was, during their Bible study classes.
Biblical scholar Eduard Schweitzer has said that «for a brief moment the curtain... is drawn aside,» and the disciples are «allowed to see in Jesus something of the glory of God and [God's] kingdom, of that other life to which human eyes are otherwise blind.»
With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.
I'm no biblical scholar, but this is addressed in Romans 1:20 «For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.»
The interpretation developed in the base Christian communities was paralleled by the work of theologians and biblical scholars, who articulated the principles of liberation hermeneutics in a series of important studies (see, especially Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology, and J. Severino Croatto, Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production of Mbiblical scholars, who articulated the principles of liberation hermeneutics in a series of important studies (see, especially Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology, and J. Severino Croatto, Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production of MBiblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production of Meaning).
What you Biblical scholars fail to see is that no where in the Gospels is it ascribed to Jesus that He said, «Take from those according to ability; give to those according to need.»
Having witnessed a time when scholars spiritualized the biblical text, we now see an insistence on materializing it at all costs.
(In this century, scholars have analyzed biblical literature to see what traces remain from the time when the stories and sayings were told before they were written.
(* For a detailed criticism from the point of view of a biblical scholar, see James M. Robinson, «Neither History nor Kerygma,» Christian Advocate, Mar. 23, 1965.
And again, through the work of other scholars like Bultmann and Buri, with their frank recognition of the mythological element in the biblical story, we have come to see that the affirmations of Scripture have their abiding significance, not in spite of, but precisely because of their being stated in language which can only be described as highly metaphorical.
Origen, for example, may have been one of the most creative Bible scholars the church has ever seen, and he came up with some great interpretations of Biblical texts.