Sentences with phrase «fresh reading of scripture»

This new critical awareness of society on the part of oppressed peoples previously restricted to the status of victims brings them to a fresh reading of scripture in which the word of God is heard speaking clearly to their situation of structural oppression, and they are moved to deep reflection (theology) directed to a new praxis of social transformation.

In Paul's fresh reading of scripture the whole mysterious drama of God's election of Israel — Israel's hardening, the incorporation of gentiles into the people of God, and Israel's ultimate restoration — is displayed as foretold in scripture itself, but this foretelling can be recognized only when scripture is read through the hermeneutics of trust.

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Under the general editorship of Robert Louis Wilken of the University of Virginia, the series (titled The Church's Bible) makes available to scholars, preachers, and the general reader a strikingly fresh way of understanding the Scriptures: the way they were read in the first millennium of Christian history.

Although Scripture is available to all and sufficient unto salvation for those who read attentively, a proper hermeneutic is necessary so that private interpretations can be corrected and fresh stimulus gained for the ongoing theological task of the church.