Sentences with phrase «earlier reading of scripture»

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Hays also seems narrow when he encourages readers to read the OT principally as narrative and not as a «source of oracles, prooftexts, or halakhic regulations,» apparently disqualifying many early Christian authors who cited Scripture in this way.

Sometimes he encouraged them in very direct and intimate prayer — the early meetings of the Oratory were characterised by informal sermons, delivered sitting, the reading of scripture and saints» lives, and reflectionupon them.

Take 2 Corinthians 11:21 - 31, the passage of scripture mentioned earlier (pp. 10 - 11), and work at a «concept» for reading it aloud.

We have already observed that from quite early times the Christians were accustomed to read occurrences of «the Lord» in the Greek Scriptures as allusions to Christ.

Paul's own distinctive contributions to Christian thought are to be sharply distinguished from what he received by tradition; and it will be found, when these are segregated, that they point to several sources: (a) his own personal experience, that of an intense spiritual nature with a keen imagination and a desperately sensitive conscience; (b) a peculiar exegesis of the Old Testament, partly rabbinic, partly early Christian, but more probably derived from his own reading and pondering of the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures; (c).

That semester, we read a wide but beautiful array of writings all the way from Scripture, the early Church Fathers, Bernard of Clairvaux, Therese of Lisieux, and ending with the Documents of Vatican II and Christi fideles Laici.

A reading of the scriptures with regards to the early church shows that it had no name at all.

When I read Ehrman's The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture ten years ago, I felt my own confidence in New Testament documents and in the early Christian scribes and leaders challenged.

At this point I found myself reflecting on the meaning of the Scripture passages as they had been read earlier in the service and invariably that meaning clashed with what emerged in the sermon.

From very early times, the church gathered both to hear the reading and exposition of Scripture, and to partake of the sacrament of Holy Communion.

I know that sometimes the sacraments are confusing but I do ask you to read the other scriptures that support confession and writing of the early church fathers.

This idea, that the Passion of Jesus fulfilled the Scripture, had already become determinative for the earliest communities and had prompted them, even before there was any story of Jesus» Passion, to read certain passages of the Old Testament as accounts of his suffering and death: e.g., Ps.