Sentences with phrase «biblical study came»

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I should point out that biblical studies has a distinct advantage over theology when it comes to finding a place in the university, since it is a historical discipline which can and often does just as well locate elsewhere — for instances in a department of Near East studies.

Students will come to a theology or biblical studies class knowing more of what their tradition says about the Bible then they do about what the Bible says itself.

Further, part of the new knowledge that is important to them comes from biblical studies.

Any study of ancient hsitory and linking it in with all the Old Testament biblical journeys into Egypty, including JC's family pilgrimige, plus coming out of and being exiled back to Mesopotaia, with a little Persian, Greek, Roman, etc. influences along the way should make that clear.

Mark Frees himself was once a pastor of a non-denominational church, but came to the conclusion that the one - pastor system isn't Biblical while doing a study of the church in order to teach it to the congregation.

In addition to the significant biblical evidence that you gave for your position (a position which should be either accepted or proved wrong biblically), is one point that has come up in my study and that I have not seen mentioned anywhere.

He noted that much of the most creative and challenging theology and biblical work is coming from the Third World, yet most Ph.D. requirements continue to insist on study in German, French, Italian and English.

and that just as you want them to listen to how you arrived at your conclusions regarding the text (and don't say, «I just read the Bible,» because you didn't), so also, that other person likely engaged in deep study of the biblical text to arrive at their understanding and it would benefit you to hear how they came to their understanding.

Disagree with the other person if you want to, but recognize that they are trying to understand and explain the text just as much as you are, and that just as you want them to listen to how you arrived at your conclusions regarding the text (and don't say, «I just read the Bible,» because you didn't), so also, that other person likely engaged in deep study of the biblical text to arrive at their understanding and it would benefit you to hear how they came to their understanding.

For those who come to this study in «first naïveté,» a semester of biblical study resembles open - heart surgery without benefit of anesthesia.

What is striking is that reflection coming out of life experience and Biblical study in communities that have taken for granted the reality of God converge so far with the ideas of God that come from those who have wrestled with, and proposed alternatives to, the dominant philosophical views.

In fact, when I've actually taken the time to study the issues that trigger my doubts — issues like religious pluralism, the Problem of Evil, biblical interpretation, evolution, predestination and free will — I come out with a stronger, more resilient faith.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Many pastors and church leaders are alarmed at numerous studies that frequently come out about a growing epidemic of biblical illiteracy in modern Christianity.

It comes as the result of decades of research, study, reading, writing, and prayerful consideration of the biblical text.

I come from a background of high academic achievement in the area of Biblical studies.

I have a Master of Biblical Studies (MABS) degree from Westminster Seminary California and a Master of nothing when it comes to potty training.