Sentences with phrase «by scriptural texts»

The existentialist view may seem to be supported by scriptural texts such as, «No one has ever seen God» (John 1:18) and «Now we are seeing a dim refection in a mirror; but then we shall be seeing face to face.

They were those particular acts either prohibited by scriptural texts or contrary to natural law — acts done with the wrong person, in the wrong way or for the wrong purpose.

Not exact matches

I don't want to compare my experience to that of Moses, since I was only called to open my heart, but I find the scriptural account moving in that when Moses first notices the burning bush — a moment we have come to think of as a great theophany — the impression given by the text is more humdrum.

For each of the five points, they provide a theological explanation for the point, and then «prove» it by citing numerous pages of Scriptural proof - texts, without ever attempting an explanation of any of those texts.

By contrast, a teaching such as the Immaculate Conception, as with so much Marian dogma, makes claims that not only stand on a highly contestable reading of an extremely narrow scriptural base but also seem to stand in tension with, if not even in contradiction to, significant biblical texts.

In this section I intend to illustrate the christological hermeneutic by showing how it bears on scriptural exposition My aim is not to give an exegesis of the texts in question but simply to show the kind of approach I would use in discovering the meaning of Scripture.

Further, the texts Bates helps us penetrate afresh need — as do all Scriptural texts — to be repeatedly pondered; and for this task, the concepts, distinctions and guidelines offered by the dogmatic Tradition can help.

But the significance and content of all such views will be defined completely in terms of thinking about them in the view of larger facts of Jesus Christ and the gospel — not primarily by gathering and arranging pieces of scriptural text that seem to be relevant to such topics in order to pinpoint the «biblical view» on them.»