Sentences with phrase «defense of biblical»

Practical implications, of course, attend such a defense of biblical revelation.

But many voices quickly spoke up in defense of biblical faith.

Some of us might be more sympathetic to Lindsell and his aims if we could read his book as a defense of biblical authority or as an analysis of the failure of the church (including the «evangelical» church) to find a mode of life and witness that seems authentically «biblical.»

Among his publications are: The Scripture Principle, Harper & Row, 1984; Reason Enough: A Case for the Christian Faith, InterVarsity Press, 1980; (editor) Grace Unlimited, Bethany Fellowship, 1975; Truth on Fire, The Message of Galatians, Baker Book House, 1972, Biblical Revelation, Moody Press, 1971, Set Forth Your Case, Craig, 1968; and A Defense of Biblical Infallibility, Presbyterian and Reformed, 1967.

Not exact matches

CNN: Name of Israel's anti-Hamas operation has biblical meaning To English speakers, the name of Israel's anti-Hamas campaign sounds pretty straightforward: «Operation Pillar of Defense.»

Your defense of your previous characterization of the biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah reveals a person who has flatly refused to engage in even the most basic of educational pursuits.

MICHAEL FLOURNOY is an apologist in the LDS Church and author of A Biblical Defense of Mormonism (CreateSpace).

Some of the essays seem designed to argue in defense of some claim such as this: Such - and - such a theological tenet is a truly Biblical tenet, that is, is part of the doctrinal theology of a Biblical writing.

My question was whether the language of «metaphysics» and «ontology» can be «heard» when mounting that defense in today's confused culture; my suggestion was that the language of biblical realism might have a better chance of providing an effective response to the regnant Gnosticism.

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.

In fact, in an extended section justifying violence in the name of self - defense (plagiarized, like much in the manifesto, from other websites), it quotes from Exodus, Samuel, Judges, Psalms, Luke, Matthew, Isaiah, Daniel, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians and other biblical books.

When he offers a book - length «vindication of democracy and a critique of its traditional defense,» he does so by employing the biblical imagery of «the children of light and the children of darkness.»

Seeking to cloak their fear of reprisals for naming real root causes, progressives trumpet phony diversions depicted as earth shattering crises (namely, global warming), missile defense, homophobia, protecting our borders, the religious right, abstinence education, prayer in schools, animal rights, biblical creation, etc..

It's time we Evangelicals abandon our defense of divorce and embrace a biblical defense of marriage's permanence.

John Locke, they said, was the key figure in setting forth a «radical philosophical defense of individual rights» of a seventeenth - century political perspective «that owed little to either classical or biblical sources.»

It shouldn't be surprising that apologists will defend biblical chattel slavery given they are equally willing to defend the slaughter of children and infants; completely disregarding any notion of judgment based on an exercise of free will, completely disregarding any notion of empathy for their suffering, and with complete rejection of any personal moral culpability in offering their various incarnations of a Nuremberg defense by placing their self - serving deference to perceived authority over any and all other moral considerations.

«As an argument against this way of thinking, this kind of idolatry, I turn to the work of Walter Brueggemann, who, in an interview last year with Krista Tippett for On Being, explained the reason for the abundance of metaphors we find for God in the scriptures this way: «The Biblical defense against idolatry is plural metaphors.

For the full defense of this view, see Robert Gordis, «Studies in the Esther Narrative,» Journal of Biblical Literature 95:1 (March 1976): 52.

For a good non-allegorical discussion of many Bible passages dealing with self defense please check out The Biblical View of Self - Ddefense please check out The Biblical View of Self - DefenseDefense.

The defense, both actual and fictional, wanted to isolate an ignorant, biblical literalism as the only kind of religion that disputes evolution.

The first attempted to mount a biblical defense of Moore's behavior.

In support of this attack on the indictment, the Defense declared that it «wished to offer the testimony of scientists and biblical scholars.

2014 started off with a bang in the legal marketing world when Georgia lawyer Jamie Casino ran a two - minute local television ad during this year's Superbowl that includes (and I'm hardly scratching the surface here) biblical references, allegations of a cover - up by the area's chief of police in the death of Casino's brother, and a sunglass - clad Casino wielding a flaming sledgehammer to smash his brother's tombstone while a pounding heavy metal soundtrack plays in the background, all of which apparently provides the backstory for Casino's decision to move from criminal defense to personal injury law as his preferred area of practice.

during this year's Superbowl that includes (and I'm hardly scratching the surface here) biblical references, allegations of a cover - up by the area's chief of police in the death of Casino's brother, and a sunglass - clad Casino wielding a flaming sledgehammer to smash his brother's tombstone while a pounding heavy metal soundtrack plays in the background, all of which apparently provides the backstory for Casino's decision to move from criminal defense to personal injury law as his preferred area of