Sentences with phrase «calls biblical scholarship»

It's called Biblical Scholarship.

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A reading of scripture refreshed by appropriate scholarship: «Biblical scholarship is a great gift of God to the church, aiding it in its task of going ever deeper into the meaning of scripture and so being refreshed and energized for the tasks to which we are called in and for the world,» says Wright.

Call it what you want, it is just more media hype to promote a new, imminently forthcoming book with shoddy Biblical and archaeological scholarship or historical accuracy.

For many years, I felt that part of my call as a writer and blogger of faith was to be a different sort of evangelical, to advocate for things like gender equality, respect for LGBT people, and acceptance of science and biblical scholarship within my community.

I recently read a book called God's Word in Human Words by Kenton Sparks, which is purportedly an evangelical defense of critical biblical scholarship.

Third, it encourages superficial scholarship rather than serious Biblical wrestling for fear that one proven «error» will call all of one's faith in doubt.

He has called the bluff of much fundamentalist biblical scholarship in a way that will make it difficult for reflective practitioners to continue in their ways.

In most of the denominations there is still a considerable number of biblical literalists (self - styled conservatives but called fundamentalists by others) who refuse to accept the views of modern historical and textual scholarship as to the true meanings of the Bible.

so - called «critical» scholarship — especially the biblical variety, with its ideological stridencies — I am, more.

An important footnote to this chapter in the development of modern biblical scholarship is the fact that source criticism was often called (and still is sometimes called) «literary criticism.»

In this respect, his approach is very different from that of another distinguished literary critic, Robert Alter, author of The Art of Biblical Narrative, who deprecates what he calls the excavative techniques of professional biblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its finBiblical Narrative, who deprecates what he calls the excavative techniques of professional biblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its finbiblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its final form.

The purpose of this appendix, then, is to summarize the results of modern Biblical scholarship concerning the resurrection, to look at the conclusions reached by those whom I will call the «minimalists», and to evaluate their arguments and proposals.