Sentences with phrase «few biblical scholars»

Few biblical scholars have taken seriously both feeding stories in Mark; similarly, how many sermons have you heard on both stories, as a pair?

For example, it is the opinion of not a few biblical scholars that the love commandments in the Fourth Gospel and the epistles of John, so often quoted to stress the universality of the Christian ethic, were originally understood as applying only within the Christian community, and as in the Old Testament «Love your neighbor» meant «Love your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow Christian.

Not exact matches

And yet, it is possible to point to a loose consensus among biblical scholars of the past few decades concerning what can be known on the basis of rigorous historical inquiry.

There are few modern - day biblical scholars who have influenced me more than Scot McKnight.

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son — Forget about how the scholars interprets the bible for a few minutes, can you tell us your qualifications as a Biblical scholar as well?

Few practicing biblical scholars would take exception to this, even those who speak of God's acts in history, since these are generally viewed as mediated through the selfhood of human agents.

A few days after the biblical scholars» conference in San Francisco, Robinson was back in Egypt.

Few Catholic biblical scholars would argue today that Jesus instituted the papacy with particular words to Peter.

Though the book lists among its contributors a number of distinguished biblical scholars and literary critics, the editors reserved so many essays for themselves and a few others that there are striking omissions.