Sentences with phrase «from biblical times»

Anita Diamant is known for her thought - provoking novels about women's lives, from Biblical times (as in her 1997 bestseller The Red Tent) to the present day (2005's The Last Days of Dogtown).

In this book, Dr. Alison Hazelbaker nicely documents the progress of this movement from biblical times to the present explaining in explicit detail the critical milestones of the journey and clearly explaining the anatomic and physiologic processes involved.

A review of a book by Roger Haight that surveys Christologies from Biblical times to the present.

Roger Haight's rich, magisterial survey of Christology from biblical times to the present is filled with useful summaries of a wide array of complex and difficult issues.

To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.

Not exact matches

The Reformers vigorously protested what they viewed as deviations from biblical teaching, but they never used Scripture to undermine the Trinitarian and Christological consensus of the early Church embodied in the historic creeds that had come down from patristic times.

I wonder what would be revealed if scientists would be permitted to study the remains in the tomb at Machpelah... after all, like all things Biblical, we only have one reference, and we ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old woman...

All Biblical characters we read about are to some extent abstractions from the real person who lived in time and space.

The Biblical accounts of God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.&ratime, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.&raTime Dispensations.»

'' Thomas Jefferson omitted it (Revelation) along with most of the Biblical canon, from the Jefferson Bible, and wrote that at one time, he considered it (Revelation) as «merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.»

Buber contends that the fact that the Holy Land is also inhabited by another people (as it always has been, from biblical to modern times) should not be an obstacle but instead is a challenge to embody that divine call in the modern world.

In the times of the biblical narrative Jesus is healing lepers, raising people from the dead, controlling nature.

So today, if a teacher begins to argue from Scripture that Jesus was either not fully divine or fully human, we'll rehearse the biblical passages and the traditional interpretations of those passages that have stood the test of time.

[30] Thomas Jefferson omitted it along with most of the Biblical canon, from the Jefferson Bible, and wrote that at one time, he «considered it as merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.»

Others have thought theologically from a perspective shaped by study of the Near Eastern religions of Biblical times.

I've received countless emails from women who, upon reading about the original intent of Proverbs 31 in A Year of Biblical Womanhood, report that for the first time in their lives, they no longer feel that they are falling short of some sort of impossible standard of womanhood.

Biblical Interpretation and Theology also change from time to time.

the Indian literary critic, writer of the post-colonized English says, «English, in this context is decolonized through a nativization of theme, space and time, a change of canon from the Western to the Indian... «19 These stylistic changes in language influence the modern - biblical translation, especially in the Indian context.

In ancient and biblical times, the word is often used regarding things like children who recovered from sickness, a battle which was won, or a successful trading voyage (See my article on the gospel where I document this in more detail).

Dr. Jones proclaimed it was un-Christian since it did not portray a literal version of the biblical events, and his threat to divert buyers from GM cars so upset GM management that they withdrew their ads and sponsorship just two weeks before air time.

Immediately thorns spring up, and from that time forward, thorns, briar and thistle become the biblical symbols of accursedness and barrenness because of sin.

Since Paul is a biblical figure, one could argue that the Bible sets the standard for the nature of the church and, since that time, faithfulness requires that we do not deviate from the biblical standard.

Its roots: «The establishment of December 25 evolved not from biblical precedent,» says The Christmas Encyclopedia, «but from pagan Roman festivals held at year's end,» about the time of the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.

Thomas Jefferson omitted it (Revelation) along with most of the Biblical canon, from the Jefferson Bible, and wrote that at one time, he «considered it as merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.»

In the biblical tradition, God was thought to possess full knowledge of human history, past and present; and from time to time he chose to reveal the future to certain select people, such as Joseph, Daniel and John of Patmos.

Prophetism is the total achievement of that unique movement spectacularly witnessed in concentrated power in the eighth, seventh, and sixth centuries, but developing from the time of Israel's birth as a people out of Egypt and continuing to find essential expression in the final six or seven centuries of biblical time.

An AIDS victim risks being treated as a leper was in biblical times — considered unclean and required to keep a certain distance from others.

From within our human history God's vision of cosmic destiny can be grasped only through the relatively limited and time - conditioned stories of promise that serve as the foundation of our biblical tradition.

In recent times this specialization has resulted in brilliant illumination of biblical problems from many points of view.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

[30] Thomas Jefferson omitted it along with most of the Biblical canon, from the Jefferson Bible, and wrote that at one time, he «considered it as merely the ravings of a ma - niac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the inc - oherences of our own nightly dreams.»

There are difficulties indeed with the Biblical eschatology; but some of them arise precisely from the fact that the Biblical world view did not contemplate a distinction between two orders of time.

From Biblical passages which there is no reasonable cause to doubt we can draw this general account of the time in Jerusalem:

(The relationship between word and time from the biblical point of view has been rigorously demonstrated in Beauchamp's commentary on Genesis 1, Création et séparation.

with the exception of some small bits out of the books of the prophets — virtually none of the other biblical scribblings were contemporaneous with events described within them, and ALL of the texts were subject to revision for a really long time from people who came along after they were originally written.

There it is — the belief that usually resides deep beneath the surface of conscious thought, safe from examination and extrication, but was born in biblical times, solidified in the days of the Enlightenment, and codified into colonial law in 1660 through the racialization of Virginia slave codes.

In the course of time he has made it clear that, from the beginning, his main intention has been directed toward the development of a new biblical theology, based upon the recognition of the unique claim of the Bible that God, who must never be understood in the terms of man, has disclosed himself in Jesus Christ.

This new apologetic task is not unlike other apologetic tasks undertaken by Christianity in other periods, especially at the time the biblical tradition encountered the Greco - Roman world in the first centuries of the Christian era, from Paul to Augustine, and at the time of the transition from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modernity, including the great reformations of Europe and the Americas.

At first scholars had high hopes that inscriptions and other written documents from ancient times («epigraphical» sources) would confirm the biblical account and add further information.

(In this century, scholars have analyzed biblical literature to see what traces remain from the time when the stories and sayings were told before they were written.

The Pope said the first fake news dated from the Biblical beginning of time, when Eve was tempted to take an apple from the Garden of Eden based on disinformation from the serpent.

That these are present from time to time in people is part of biblical understanding.

Furthermore, I agree with my colleague Altizer that, far from experiencing God in the old ways of biblical, medieval, or modern times, the epiphany of God in our day in the West takes the form of total presence of divinity (TP).

Kelly's summary of the trends in the curriculum of Oberlin Seminary applies to many others as well: «The program of study was changing from the dogmatic to the practical, from the ecclesiocentric to the socio - centric... «34 More recent examinations show the continuation of these emphases in our time though they also show a revival of interest in systematic and exegetical theology and in the Biblical languages.

We dare not move beyond the biblical limits of the Gospel; but we can not be fully evangelical without recognizing our need to learn from other times and movements concerning the whole meaning of that Gospel.

If you have been caught in error in the past, or if you are afraid of being caught in error in the future, you can mature and protect yourself from false teachers by taking time and making effort to study good biblical teaching and listen to good biblical teachers.

After she read A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Grandma called me up to tell me about a time when she was demoted from an administrative position at a Christian school because the new pastor of the associated church believed women should be forbidden from leading in any capacity.

Science and archaeology have verified many biblical claims and serious scholarship from believers and non-believers have verified the Bible's veracity time and time again.

The interest in names in biblical times is demonstrated repeatedly, from the stories of the patriarchs in Genesis to the naming of Jesus and John in the New Testament.

Being the church gathered in praise before the throne of God, on earth as it is in heaven, is godly and biblical, and Our People have done it from time out of mind for a reason.