Sentences with phrase «church as interpreter»

In this emergent electronic era, the most advanced and powerful communication now takes place through media which the church as the interpreter of the revelation of God has not mastered.

They turned from the authority of the church as interpreter of Scripture to the biblical texts themselves.

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This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

The book of Job has served as a philosophical Rorschach blot for its most outspoken interpreters, from the Talmudic rabbis and Church Fathers through their medieval philosophical successors and down to modern philosophers, theologians, and creative writers.

Each knows, as a theological interpreter of Christian self - understanding, that faith in God includes a fundamental trust in and loyalty to both church and world.

Novelist Mary Gordon, a perceptive interpreter of Catholic women's experience, affirms that Mary's submissive obedience has become «a stick to beat smart girls» («Coming to Terms with Mary,» Commonweal, January 15, 1982) Warner painfully recalls her own adolescent realization that the symbol of Mary as a model of chastity actually denigrates women and humanity, an understanding that transformed her perception of the church.

Many other modern interpreters of marriage have made the same mistake, and so have many people in American churches, who are tempted to join with Coontz and insist that couples get married for reasons of love alone, Economic, kinship and network issues and even the desire to have children are sometimes seen as contaminations of the purity of marital love.

Rather than accepting as authoritative Scripture's total witness, the interpreter uses either his subjective experience with the Christ, or his contemporary sensibility, or the church's traditional understanding of the gospel, or perhaps some combination of these to judge what reasonably the «whole Bible» might be saying.

«In the Christian Student World, the WSCF meeting in Strasburg of 1960 has been interpreted as a sign of the times: hence according to recent interpreters, the voice of Karl Barth, Visser» t Hooft, Leslie Newbigin and D.T. Niles... were unable to hold their hearers with neo-orthodox presentations; rather, the missiologically radical views of J.C. (Hans) Hoekendijk, showing a certain impatience with the Church and its institutional forms, while pointing to the missio Dei, God's activity in the world and its structures independently of the Church, caught the student mood».9

In listening to the voices of women in the early church and to the reporting of, and interpretation of, these voices by dominant male interpreters, we can glimpse the church as a movement in flux, in which paths yet untrodden were becoming pilgrim routes.

If the parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1 - 13) is eschatological — referring to the last days, as many Bible interpreters believe — we can easily see what our Lord would say about today's Church.

Second, what kind of structure of the church will facilitate such dialogue and struggle which will at the same time strengthen the central elements of the church's being as the sacramental sign and interpreter of God's universal gift of salvation in Christ?

Further, in presenting his interpretation of Matthew 16 and John 20, he merely illustrates the Protestant dilemma of a lack of common faith and practice resulting from each Christian interpreting Scripture as he will in the absence of a divinely sanctioned interpreter, the Catholic Church.

In composing one of his preparatory texts for his forthcoming debate in Leipzig (his Resolution on the Thirteenth Proposition), Dr Luther was forced to thrash out what the Church must be if it can not be defined in terms simply of obedience to Rome, to Canon Law, to Pope and bishops as infallible interpreters of the gospel.

It has also emphasized the relational character of knowledge and the role of the community (for Christians, the Church) in interpretation, as well as the situatedness (language, gender, culture, and historical particularity) of every interpreter.

I am a 28 year old male that finished my undergrad degree in 2007 i am serving as an interpreter for the deaf in a church in vancouver canada but live on the border of the US, I enjoy being around people, trying new things food ect... I love dogs and if I ever Lord willing get married I would...