Sentences with phrase «for much interpretation»

A third caveat is there is room for much interpretation in the application of each concept.

Not exact matches

It leaves so much up for interpretation.

Even the various forms of theological activity can be redescribed in narrative terms, as when Newbigin writes of «the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel»: interpretation of Scripture for Newbigin is not so much what a particular scholar writes as what a particular community of believers enacts.

Why is there so much room for arbitrary interpretation in the arena of Bible prophecy?

I have always thought that this theological interpretation of Pentecostalism did not have much going for it and I'm glad that Hailemariam adds another piece of evidence against it.

This belief is particularly poignant for the person with AIDS who obviously finds much in the surrounding culture to reinforce this incriminating interpretation.

This person had no idea how much hell I've taken from people in my evangelical community for writing about my doubts, my questions related to heaven and hell, my views on biblical interpretation and theology, and my support for women in ministry and other marginalized people in the Church.

From my own interpretation, there isn't much to Jesus, and to love for that matter, that ensures victory, success or growth.

Marxist interpreters of Bonhoeffer assume that if Bonhoeffer's call for non-religious interpretation is taken seriously, then there is not much left in Christianity except some social teaching.

Such an approach, for example, led Cyril of Alexandria to interpret chapter one, verse thirteen («My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh, that lies between my breasts») as referring to the Old and New Testaments, between which hangs Christ.52 Not all interpretation that followed through the centuries was as ludicrous as this, although much of it was.

It is true that one can find among individual theologians support for an «inerrancy» position throughout the history of the church, but it is also true that these same theologians often exercise in their exegesis much greater freedom than Lindsell's or Schaeffer's interpretation of their theory would seem to allow.

As much as I struggle with the things I don't like about the Bible — the apparent contradictions, the competing interpretations, the troubling passages — I'm beginning to think that God allows these tensions to exist for a reason.

Hodgson has much sympathy for this position and argues for a new realism in physics, and is firmly against speculations drawn from a sub-realist interpretation of quantum mechanics (eg.

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This is a much more difficult verse to interpret word by word for those of us who know neither Aramaic nor Greek, but the same general interpretation seems to fit.

This second trait of freedom in the light of hope removes us further than the first trait did from the existential interpretation, which is too much centered on the present decision; for the ethics of the mission has communitarian, political, and even cosmic implications, which the existential decision, centered on personal interiority, tends to hide.

For my part I have been very much taken with — I should say, won over by — the eschatological interpretation that Jurgen Moltmann gives to the Christian kerygma in his work The Theology of Hope.1 As we know, Johannes Weiss and Albert Schweitzer are at the origin of the reinterpretation of the whole of the New Testament, starting with the preaching of the Kingdom of God and of the last things and breaking with the moralizing Christ of the liberal exegetes.

Let us examine then two of the most powerful statements of it, those of Bishop Anders Nygren and of Reinhold Niebuhr, for I believe them to be in error and that error underlies much of the distortion in the Christian interpretation of man's predicament into which we are being led.

There is much which points to the fact that even when the exaltation of Jesus came to be spoken of in terms of resurrection, the grounds for this conviction were still of an ambiguous character, and open to more than one interpretation.

As for myself, through much of my life I tried to figure out Luther on the assumption that Luther interpretation on

The previous and much - longer - lived Jewish interpretation (actually it is still here) is that the Garden of Eden parable is a tale of success for both creation and creator.

Physical evidence is great for some things, much less so for others and since we are generally talking ruins or even scraps that aren't even coherent enough to be called ruins, there is a lot if interpretation.

But as much as this can not be said for another distinction, of which one often hears, between the historical interpretation of the Bible on the one hand, and an interpretation variously called devotional, religious, or theological, on the other.

I'm not sure there is much room for interpretation in her books in the first place.

Furthermore, even the identification of the putative content of experience proves to be normed by whatever hermeneutical analysis is employed, for one can only imagine, much less recognize as present, what one can come to identify somehow.16 Finally, some hermeneutical analysis is also presupposed by and, therefore, normative of any argument from experience, whether of the individual or the communal type, since it is only experience as interpretable in terms of some description or other to which one can ever appeal either for the mutual corroboration of such descriptions or for their illustration of a theistic interpretation.

Hence with His own statements, so far as they are His own, such a «proportionate interpretation», in a fine phrase from Bishop Westcott, is required quite as much as it is required for other pieces of biblical teaching.

Altizer's literal interpretation of the Incarnation in this third argument seems ultimately even more self - destructive than Origen's well - intentioned but much too literal interpretation of Christ's words to his disciples about those who have courage to make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven (Matt.

Vast numbers of people think that the fact of a relatively settled order of nature, along with the scientific interpretation of change and the description of the inner dynamics of human personality (and much else as well), has ruled out once and for all genuine novelty and made change nothing more than the reshuffling of bits of matter - in - motion.

Hence Bultmann does not seem to be very much preoccupied with the fact that another language replaces the language of myth and hence calls for a new kind of interpretation.

Thus, although it should be easier to teach Western students about Islam than about Hinduism or Buddhism, for there is much in common, the burden of our neighborhood quarrels — not always impartially recorded — and the subtle differences of interpretation make Islam the most difficult religion to present fairly.

This is clearest in in his portrayal of the Elizabethan settlement as a deliberate via media between Protestantism and Catholicism, an interpretation which has been the target of much of the best writing about the period for more than twenty years.

For example, although David Ford's work is much respected among academic theologians, and he is one of the most important public theologians in the UK, his name is probably unknown to most Christians in the U.S. Educated in Ireland, Germany and the U.S. (as well as in the UK), Ford brings a wide range of intellectual resources to bear on his interpretation of the faith.

Neuhaus criticizes the NAB for rendering Genesis 1:1 - 3, «In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth,» rather than «In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,» on the grounds that much Christian interpretation presupposes the latter translation.

So, with so much hatred coming from so many, each with their own interpretation of the Bible, what does that say about the Bible for the purposes of judging someone's sexuality and sexual behavior?

Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort of Whiggish interpretation of the French Revolution as the struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much of the ideological discourse of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political struggles of the French high courts of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy of the eighteenth century.

What strikes me on rereading that exchange is how much their debate hinged on a proper interpretation of Milton, with Fish insisting on the same views now developed at fuller length in How Milton Works, and Neuhaus insisting that Milton would agree with his own assertion that «one's decision for a «first premise» is a reasoned decision.»

Old Joe's declaration of love still leaves much of this pie up for interpretation.

Up for interpretation as always, but these two are pretty impressive, and show why Arsenal fans are praising Mesut Ozil, Theo Walcott and Gabriel Paulista so much recently.

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The second is that they use it with as much precision as Margaret Thatcher; for if one cavils at Thatcher's materialistic interpretation of the story, it is hard to feel much more comfortable with Labour's general «the state should jolly well get involved and do something» interpretation.

And NATO intentions on the long - term prospects for Ukrainian membership are much more subject to interpretation than Motyl allows.

«There is no rationale for maintaining this much - maligned and incorrect interpretation of law that effectively eliminates any contribution limits for those willing to abuse it.

The BPCA had said they disagreed with that interpretation, and said they were putting millions of dollars into the neighboring Asphalt Green community center — which opened two blocks away in June and charges more than four times as much for an adult membership as the Stuyvesant center.

«At this point, people (administering) ImPACT may not have very much training in neuropsychological testing or standardized test administration or data interpretation,» said lead author Kathryn Higgins, a postdoctoral researcher with the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior at Nebraska.

Because illustrators know how much hard work goes into reconstructing a dinosaur for the first time, they respect each other's original interpretations.

Savasana: End with Jack Kornfield's interpretation of Buddha: In the end only 3 things matter, how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how much you were able to let go of what was not meant for you.

Providing testing for hormones, digestive imbalances, food intolerance, and much more ~ provide functional interpretations of test results to identify malfunctions.

Also included are four production featurettes, a collection of cast improvisations, Line - O-Ramas for five different scenes, a «Dramatic Interpretation» of the film and much more.

Fortunately, that silence was broken today, as series creator Yuji Horii confirmed the Switch version will use Unreal Engine 4.15: good news for fans worried we'd be getting a much simpler 3DS interpretation over its Unreal - powered PS4 counterpart.

Just as its predecessor can be granted some leeway for the action - hero status afforded to Sherlock Holmes simply because the character is named Sherlock Holmes (It's not too much of a stretch to imagine him a skilled combatant, if one only reads between the lines of Doyle as Holmes» ever - faithful assistant Dr. John Watson), there's an instinctive reaction to forgive screenwriters Michele and Kieran Mulroney for their broadly megalomaniacal interpretation of James Moriarty.