Sentences with phrase «biblical witness»

Marriage is woven into the tapestry of biblical witness from Genesis to Revelation, and it provides a buttress to civilization and backdrop to God's plan of redemption.

The longing to move out of time (which involves change and so is «bad») into a state of timeless permanence (which is therefore «good»)-- characteristic of most post-Aristotelian philosophy and much contemporary Christianity — is thus seen to have more in common with Platonic dualism than with biblical witness.

A substantial amount of biblical witness tells us God is interested in economics.

There is much in it that the evangelical should take seriously and yet it is characterized by what seems a perverse refusal to accept the authoritative Biblical witness without first subjecting it to existentialist and other historically conditioned mutations.

He is also executive director of the conservative Biblical Witness Fellowship.

In my book «American Jesus,» I demonstrated how American views of Jesus, rather than adhering strictly to the unchanging biblical witness, have shifted with the cultural and political winds.

British Christians frequently bemoan the lack of biblical witness on television.

My main support on this point is no one less than Thomas Aquinas, who was much more rooted in the biblical witness than, unfortunately, neo-Thomists normally are.

While these differences must be kept in mind, the biblical witness remains for Christians the starting point for deciding which path to take.

Centuries of separation and polemics have led Protestantism in some quarters to imagine that the biblical witness could be disentangled from the Church's history, tradition, and teaching office.

The biblical witness stresses the similarity rather than the difference between the young and the old.

The biblical witness brought forth a way of thinking about the nature of God as a living and interacting God who is predominantly and even essentially love.

As St. Augustine pointed out, «The God who created us without our help will not save us without our consent»; but that does not change the Biblical witness to the Reality that the Jesus of history is also the Christ of faith, the Cosmic Christ, Savior of the world, not just the Church.

We can also learn from the biblical witness how to engage in the world around us.

«At all times he sought to portray the unity of the biblical witness.»

The biblical witness to a living God whose power is shown forth precisely as a facet of essential love and not vice versa still remains alien to these and numerous other reworkings of the historic theistic synthesis, the detailing of which would finally prove redundant.

According to the biblical witness, God can be known only when and where God gives Godself to be known.

This comes with the strong conviction that the process of undoing the bondage of biblical witness to unhelpful philosophical categories will necessarily include this reversal as a key component of challenge and reconstruction.

From what I understand, evangelicals also value the biblical witness to the ministry of Jesus and bringing people closer to relationship with God.

There has been a presentation in which a biblical symbol has been pushed to the exclusion of the rest, so that the resultant picture is not adequate to the richness of the biblical witness as it has been developed and modified through centuries of Jewish history.

Where the dialogue between this newer modern consciousness and the biblical witness is sensitively pursued, it can yield the kind of critical insight into our understanding of man which we desperately need in this age of yearning and conflict.

To say that humanity is good is anathema to the biblical witness, and to go against what God has revealed.

But the biblical witness must be read in its own context, and when this is done, we must look for the direction in which the faith of Israel was moving, not for the mythological remnants still present in its expression.

For this reason conservative Christians maintain that if we dispense with the concept of God as a supernatural being dwelling in heaven, we are rejecting the biblical witness.

Granted there is a lot more to the biblical witness than our substance.

Moreover, by this point in the biblical witness, the emotions Mark describes are not new.

Now, upon what basis can we look for and read into the biblical witness that man is not solely a temporary being of dust?

What imperatives for concern with hunger and poverty are given to the community of faith in the biblical witness?

Psychoanalysis and the biblical witness are agreed on this point.

Cases may arise in which we must acknowledge internal tensions within scripture that require us to choose guidance from one biblical witness and to reject another.

But according to the biblical witness, man does not exist under a cruel law of self - preservation, nor is pleasure the goal of his life.

The formulation «The messiah reveals the participation of all things in the eschatological fulfillment that he accomplishes by his death and resurrection» does not do justice to the biblical witness that the eschatological fulfillment is achieved through two comings of the messiah, not one.

We need further theological interpretation of the biblical witness to Jesus» suffering and death as revelation of God's suffering love.

It is no accident that the biblical witness is that Christ is «the Alpha and the Omega» and not just the center.

If further study reveals that modifications must be made in the proposed concept of «social justice» in order for it to remain true to the Biblical witness, some of the conclusions of this chapter will no doubt be changed.

A cultural starting point might well demand a «hermeneutical suspicion» (i. e., a distrust of one's previous reading of Scripture, given the possibility that such a reading conceals some of the radical implications of the Biblical message for our day), but it may also assist in the renewed hermeneutical task, allowing the Biblical witness to be freshly experienced, freshly understood, and freshly applied.21

The way is open to the doctrine of double predestination, with all its horrible implications for the understanding of God, which are so contrary to the Biblical witness to his love.