Sentences with phrase «certain biblical stories»

In seminary I read certain biblical stories not only for their theological significance but also for their strategic value in political action.

Not exact matches

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

The coherence of this story made figural interpretation possible; certain events within and outside of scriptural narrative were viewed as having prefigured or reflected the central biblical events.

I'm not certain where she has studied or what views she has that bias her against the accepted interpretation of biblical scriptures, but she has misinterpreted the creation story and seems to lack the language background in Hebrew and Greek to truly appreciate the original meanings of the biclical texts.

Further, have you modeled every single aspect of your life after the Bible, I mean im quite sure we could find some areas in which you have «convenientlly» elected to ignore certain biblical edicts (either because you think they are unimportant, impractical, or irrelevant; I mean for goodness sakes, the stories are set in the ancient near - east, there is no way you could mimic every aspect of bibllical life).

Biblical overtones aside, this is decidedly a contemporary story with a pulse on certain people of Russia.

The works on view in Rachel Uffner's booth point slyly to her ongoing fascination with mythologies of all kinds, without making any reference overly obvious — if you think the piece above refers only to the Biblical Eve, you may need to look up the story of a certain Aphrodite and a handsome man named Paris.