Sentences with phrase «drawn from scripture»

Each room in the exhibit begins with a text drawn from Scripture or hymnody that helps to shed light on the aspect of Mary being illustrated by the sixty works of art.

On his side, all the arguments were drawn from Thomas and his expositors; on mine, they were drawn from Scripture; naturally, limited to the lesser source of authority, I was at a disadvantage.

By structured prayer I just mean prayers drawn from Scripture or written by other people, words that are not my own.

He makes a strong case that the idea of covenant, drawn from scripture and developed variously in different cultures and societies, is particularly suited to support public, just, pluralistic, federalist structures within the church and in the government.

In some ways, doctrinal statements are a summary of the doctrinal conclusions that Christians of the past have drawn from Scripture.

The Jesus of history could only be accessed by peeling away the theological invention of the Gospel accounts, while whatever spirituality could be drawn from scripture was in the category of myth and metaphor.

It represents the message drawn from scripture, not the utterance that conveys that message — and that message, Luther insisted, whether drawn from the Old Testament or the New, always points to Christ crucified.

That is the Bible's single theme, and everything drawn from Scripture must be related to that theme.»»

This seems fair enough: the applications of the principle that are offered, however, are generalizations that strangely resemble the «lessons» drawn from Scripture by an old - fashioned Sunday school teacher.

Weaving together her unique perspective as a professional ballerina with profound truths drawn from Scripture and a life of faith, in, Sarah Beth Marr reminds us in Dreaming with God that we are not dreaming alone.

He lived in the nineteenth century, and all of his sermons were drawn from Scripture.

It's rich, inspiring, drawn from the Scriptures, and something that we can all grasp and think about.

While we can draw from scripture some definite teachings regarding angels, God never addresses the creation of angels in the creation account in Genesis.

Not exact matches

That is not to say we should not take the journey for ourselves; it simply means that there are maps drawn by those who have gone before — from the saints in Scripture to the Fathers of the Church.

True, there are themes that will be familiar to anyone who has followed the work of Ratzinger - Benedict over the years, and, as one would expect from a pope, the document draws deeply from Scripture and the Church's tradition.

After reading Klaus Bockmuehl's book, Listening to the God Who Speaks: Reflections on God's Guidance from Scripture and the Lives of God's People, the conclusion one would have to draw is that if you're not hearing God, you're deaf.

When it comes to Judaism, one would think, judging from his use of Scripture as proof texts, traditional Jews simply read Scripture verbatim without coming to it and drawing normative conclusions from it through the lens of the Talmud.

I applaud this success in every way... When one draws literal translations from the scriptures..

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

The artists draw on an ancient tradition of Mary as herself a voracious reader, stewed in holy Scriptures, and a notion, then commonplace, of the affinity between the intellectual and spiritual lives, of the «garden enclosed» where the God of truth meets the believer, set apart from the demands of the world.

This guy claims to have been inspired by the scriptures of his choosing, but how that does that differ from anyone else drawing upon their personal revelations of what God is to them.

Now they've done it again with The Real Housewives of the Bible, a DVD series that follows six women in their journey to be good wives, drawing parallels to famous women from Scripture.

Scripture and the Fathers, always quoted from memory, would be drawn in, creating a wonderful richness.

Holy Scripture, he said, in order to make its message understood, purges the human mind by the use of «words drawn from any class of things really existing.»

Biblically conservative Christians today rightly reject recreational sex as a psychologizing of Scripture if undisciplined sexual behavior is justified by conclusions drawn from modern theories about sexual repression.

And the determination of what is appropriate for Christian theology involves more than interpretation of «scripture and tradition»; it also involves consideration of how and in what direction the Spirit that animated Christian existence in the past will move in the new situational context, in which consideration insights are also drawn from other sources, religious and secular.

He does not shrink from the consequences, however terrifying they may be, either in his personal responsibility towards the Scriptures, or in the positive or negative conclusions he is forced to draw for his own preaching.

The second shall be a series of axioms, drawn from the Holy Scriptures and arranged in due order, by which that priesthood, which he calls a visible one, shall be fully established.

The question is whether you think that, by drawing people in with part of the truth, these other scriptures lead them away from Jesus.

Dawkins cites it as a particular example of why we can't draw our morality from scripture.

Actually, the function of the moral sense is not to draw morals from Scripture at all, to moralize history, but to assure the correspondence between the Christ - event and the inner man.

His definition of a «bio-philosopher» is «Someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and understands that we have become the process itself, through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and anticipate the future, and to choose from among alternatives.»

It comes rather from his belief that consistent, expository preaching of the whole of Scripture will be used by the Spirit to draw people to the Son.

In the One Verse podcast, author and blogger Jeremy Myers provides verse - by - verse Bible teaching to show how Scripture does not enslave us to the shackles of religion, but instead liberates us from religion by drawing us into a loving and dynamic relationship with God.

Drawing from the rich imagery of Scripture and speaking transparently from his own experience, Martin offers a series of reflections on surviving loss, failure, and change with your faith and humanity intact.

The apologetic is robust, drawing from the witness of the Scriptures, the Tradition of the early Church and non Christian sources.

Drawing frequently from scripture — Malachi 2, 1 Corinthians 13, 1 Peter 3, Acts 4 — Cole drives home one of the conference's underlying themes: Today's male is pathetic.

My own approach has been to dig deeply into the core of my own tradition and to find there surprising convergences with other Christians drawn from the great heritage of the apostolic faith and the inspired Holy Scriptures we cherish in common.

Sometimes the motifs were those of late antiquity, but they were predominantly drawn from the Hebrew scriptures and include such scenes as Daniel in the lion's den; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego being delivered from the burning fiery furnace; and the story of Jonah, which ends in triumph and which the early church took as a foreshadowing of the death and resurrection of Christ.

Consequently, it is not from Sacred Scripture alone that the Church draws her certainty about everything which has beenrevealed.

We first learn from it and draw our cues from culture, we sift them through the guiding principles of Scripture to see what the Holy Spirit might be doing in our time and location.

Even though, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, most people who call themselves religious tend to adhere to only those bits and pieces from scripture that appeal to them, by according undue respect for ancient religious beliefs in general, we nonetheless are suggesting that they are on par with conclusions that have been drawn from centuries of rational empirical investigation.

In the beginning, mantras were drawn only from the thousands of verses in the Rig - Veda, Hinduism's oldest and holiest scripture.

An artist who perpetually introduces his audience to new stages of his own artistic evolution, Campbell blends together scribbles, scriptures, slogans, and anecdotes to assemble multilayered, interconnected works that draw from a symbolic system of meaning and associations.

Biblical marriage counselors will often give couples advice drawn from Biblical scriptures.