Sentences with phrase «formal authority of scripture»

Here we find at the beginning the new set over against the old in strong antitheses, in a peculiar interpretation of the Old Testament which evidently aims to establish its true meaning as against the scribal interpretation, thus completely destroying, as we have before observed, the formal authority of Scripture.

The will of God is the formal authority of Scripture; ethic is therefore not distinguishable from law.

For its peculiar characteristic is the conviction that because of the formal authority of Scripture all the commands of the Law are equally binding.

Not exact matches

The Church is sociologically the kind of «soft» institution where, notwithstanding formal adherence to authorities like Scripture, the easier contemporary route of accommodation is frequently chosen.

Although the form of these words is conservative (do this, and do not leave that out), yet the formal, external authority of Scripture is evidently given up.

Just because conduct is not determined by unified intelligible basic principles, but is regulated by the formal authority of the Law, the task of the scribe is to «make a fence around the Torah,» that is, by endless acute deductions from Scripture to find rules for cases not foreseen in the Law, which nevertheless confront men in their present life.