Sentences with phrase «covenantal concepts»

Because of this, most contemporary western Christians interpret Scripture's covenantal concepts as if they were contractual, and as I show in Benefit of the Doubt, this has fundamentally screwed up our understanding of a number of theological concepts in Scripture.

Much of this relationship reflection makes one think of covenantal concepts in salvation history.

Understood as a covenantal concept, salvation, isn't about a deal that takes place between us and God.

Not exact matches

Many experts both within and outside of the church think that there is much we can do to help couples and modern societies learn to hold together genuine covenantal love (a much stronger concept than that of romantic love) with the economic, kinship, networking and child - rearing aspects of marriage.

We must hold them in mind as background to the main task, which is to explore the interaction of theologians and human scientists as they seek to formulate a new concept of civil society which can draw traditioned communities and other human associations into a larger covenantal bond.