Sentences with phrase «formed by scripture»

The language of the Christian community needs to be formed by its Scripture, even as the community ponders issues raised up by a postbiblical world.

Revisiting late medieval biblical interpretation, we may consider the delicacy of the hermeneutic circle formed by Scripture and tradition, appreciating the fragility of a synthesis that refuses to impose on ancient consensus a linear, hierarchical path to truth.

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Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

This observation» a commonplace in rhetoric» becomes a problem the moment one seeks to move between imaginative prose and Scripture, which claims to offer truth unmediated by any form of metonymy.

The simple fact that we have a canon of Scripture, which was compiled and organized by various early Church Fathers, and became a tradition, shows that we must, to some degree, accept and depend upon some forms of Church Tradition.

It's a Midrashic way of reading scripture — a Talmudic form of reasoning — that was dominant in rabbinic times, but interrupted by modernity.»

Part of the problem the way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an ethical ideal from one part of scripture and use it to judge the actions of God in another part of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract ethical judgments!

All of these forms ultimately stem from the headwaters of scripture as their primary source, but they become bearers of a dialogue about scripture and thus must always be judged by their faithfulness to that primary source.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

What it revealed was their conviction that Christian theology in its form and substance as well as its function in the church must be determined by God's authoritative Word, the written Scriptures.

Impelled by a need to find the roots of their form of Mormonism, leading historians of the Reorganization have embarked on an exercise in higher criticism, subjecting to close scrutiny Joseph Smith's story and Mormon scripture as well as the two official versions of church history.

Specifically canonical criticism is concerned with how scripture's final form was created within a believing community and how the meanings created by that final form continue to guide the reading practices of the community.

I think Obama's form of Christianity is closer to what Scripture teaches then what Billy Graham is saying by taking down the fact that Mormonism is a cult according to Scripture

All religions - that is, belief systems delineated by scriptures, doctrines or dogmas that posit some form of deity or deities - are the work of man and all are equally absurd.

Any twelve Jews were allowed to form a synagogue, and, although many Christians may have continued at least for a time as members of normal Jewish synagogues (Acts 6:9, 9:29), they probably established house - synagogues of their own as well; to the usual scripture - reading and interpretation, followed by prayer and praise to God, they brought a new and special unity of purpose.

O when one beholds a man who protests that he has entirely understood how Christ went about in the form of a lowly servant, poor, despised, and, as the Scripture says, spat upon — when I see the same man so careful to betake himself thither where in a worldly sense it is good to be, and accommodate himself there in the utmost security, when I see him apprehensive of every puff of wind from right or left, as though his life depended upon it, and so blissful, so utterly blissful, so awfully glad — yes, to make the thing complete, so awfully glad that he is able to thank God for it — glad that he is held in honor by all men — then I have often said to myself and by myself, «Socrates, Socrates, Socrates, can it be possible that this man has understood what he says he has understood?»

If you ask why this particular collection of just these sixty - six books (or eighty, if you count the Apocrypha), and no others, form the unity which is the Bible, the only answer is that these have been handed down by the Church as its «Scriptures».

The Scriptures, given under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, are nevertheless the words of men, conditioned by the language, thought forms, and literary fashions of the places and times at which they were written.

If we use the logically odd phrase «Word of God» to describe the Bible, with «Word» as the model and «of God» as the qualifier, so that we speak of «hearing» God's Word, we mean that if we follow the verbal pattern formed by the words of scripture, we may find ourselves in a situation in which a disclosure occurs; the «light dawns» or the «ice breaks.»

Where I come fomr on this is, being that scripture ss God breathed and written by humans, is being open to there being error and therefore for the need of the Spirit in discrning meaning form textx and their application.

This may take forms as diverse as charismatic interpretation (although internally criticized by the scripture itself) and highly sophisticated scientific criticism.

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

First, an authorized interpreter of Scripture has been established by God in the form of the Roman magisterium.

It is this essentially sacramental character of the Scriptures — the special forms of the words and sentences which give them unique power to point beyond themselves to the sources of being from which untold possibilities spring — that explains what is meant by the statement that for the believer the Bible is the Word of God.

Homileticians» interest in the ways that the literary forms, designs, and shapes of scripture «come through» in the design of the sermon can be complemented by understanding how a literary - rhetorical form, such as a sermon, comes through the body and voice of the preacher.

But not merely by reading, learning and digesting the Scriptures do we see Christ formed in us and we in him.

Its purpose, therefore, can only be served by intense examination and discussion in the light of the Scriptures, even if it turns out that the form of the teaching must be modified as a result of such reflection.

Gitanjali's upbringing in India surrounded by the scriptures, the daily chants and rituals formed the basis for her spiritual pursuits.

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