Sentences with phrase «biblical wisdom tradition»

In the broad development of the biblical wisdom tradition, the pattern of wisdom, thus early made indigenous, continued by and large to shape and control its continuing expression.

Not exact matches

We know that there is also wisdom to be found, much of it similar to Biblical wisdom, in the sacred texts and stories of other faiths and traditions and we are glad to have those, also, to help us discern the direction of our lives and paths.

But I do wonder how much longer our society will stay trapped in a futile debate on sexuality limited to the moralists and the medicalists, neither of whom has much sense of the moral wisdom, compassionate understanding and sense of ambiguity available to us from the biblical tradition.

But this is not to say that the product of wisdom in the biblical tradition is merely an Egyptian or Babylonian copy.

This experience drove me to look more carefully at the biblical traditions of wisdom and prophecy.

(Jer 32:17).3 What is narrated at the very beginning of the biblical record, God's creating of all that is, also pervades the subsequent literature down through the prophets and the Wisdom tradition.4

I still think that such problems no longer arise if one views the Bible as part of the traditions and wisdom of the Church instead of the Church originating from the Biblical Canon.

The goal of our digging into our cultural heritage and relating it to the biblical traditions is to promote goodwill towards our fellow humans and to work together for the welfare of the people in relation to the nature and to our Creator, in order that all humans may be successful in achieving mastery of life (cf. Genesis 1:28, which is interpreted from the wisdom point of view that man has the responsibility to master the world).

With this introduction, we will look at the extent of the Wisdom Tradition in the Biblical books, the renewed interest of the scholars in the wisdom studies, and the Wisdom parallels in the Ancient Near Eastern CulWisdom Tradition in the Biblical books, the renewed interest of the scholars in the wisdom studies, and the Wisdom parallels in the Ancient Near Eastern Culwisdom studies, and the Wisdom parallels in the Ancient Near Eastern CulWisdom parallels in the Ancient Near Eastern Cultures.