Sentences with phrase «early biblical criticism»

There is a sense in which the intention of early biblical criticism was an effort to restore a «biblical theology» in which the Scriptures were freed from their dogmatic imprisonment.

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And perhaps most significantly we should notice that some would trace the emergence of early forms of biblical criticism to Pietism and its attack on the abstract doctrinal character of orthodoxy.

We have heard William Blackstone earlier in this century announcing that new modes of transportation, growing world literacy, pestilence, famine, socialism, accumulating armaments, industrial conflict, spiritualism, Christian Science and biblical criticism were all signs of that spiritual deterioration which heralded the immediate return of Christ.

For myself, certain early formative influences in the early «60s (biblical criticism, Bernard Lonergan's reflections on method and historical consciousness, and the splendid ambience of student days in Rome during the Second Vatican Council) solidified my own sharing in the common conviction that there can be no return to a pre-ecumenical, prepluralistic, ahistorical theology.

Problems of relating biblical criticism and modern philosophies to Christian tradition are still in a state of flux that would seem familiar to an early - century theologian.