Sentences with phrase «historical biblical narratives»

Knust shows absolutely no awareness of Biblical exegesis, hermeneutics, genre, social and historical context, or even a rudimentary understanding of what's prescriptive or descriptive text in some of the historical Biblical narratives.

Not exact matches

The demonstrated historical accuracy of the biblical narrative in all accounts, the Gospel of Luke alone has hundreds of verified historical accuracies.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

Placker presents an appreciative summary of Hans Frei's understanding of biblical narrative as neither moral teachings nor historical accounts, but rather as primarily narrative.

In a 1998 exchange with Placher in the Christian Century, Gustafson charged that postliberals never give straight answers to questions about the historical credibility of biblical narrative or about the relation of Christian truth to the truth of other religions.

It was only when this rigid view of scripture came to be questioned, and eventually abandoned by most, that men were free to examine the historicity of the many biblical narratives with the tools of historical method.

Alt and his students were unwilling to speak of the existence of a historical Israel before scattered groups of nomads had settled in Palestine and formed a tribal alliance — or about the time of the Judges in the biblical narrative.

Whereas Wellhausen had challenged the historical reliability of the biblical account on the grounds that it was compiled from multiple sources that originated long after the events reported, his intellectual successors a century later were employing methodologies (such as rhetorical criticism and narrative criticism) that seemed to assume that the biblical writers were not particularly concerned with historical accuracy anyhow.

In an early negative judgment on Frei, Carl F. H. Henry summarized the problem: Narrative theology drives a wedge between biblical narrative (which it plays up) and historical factuality (which it plaNarrative theology drives a wedge between biblical narrative (which it plays up) and historical factuality (which it planarrative (which it plays up) and historical factuality (which it plays down).

And I assure you that my knowledge of biblical controversies is miniscule, but the one were discussing I have spent some time looking into, it's very intriguing to me that these things exist alongside each other... as I said earlier, John's gospel is a good example of historical detail (with respect to the synoptics) seemingly playing second fiddle to a developing narrative (the Johanine tradition).

If biblical narratives do not derive their meaning by referring to historical events or ontological realities, how can biblical theology be anything more than a symbolic or mythical construct?

Tillman asked about biblical genealogies that don't line up with other historical records, and parts within the biblical narrative that seem to contradict each other, no matter how nimble your hermeneutical acrobatics.

I've read and studied Biblical theology, systematic theology, dogmatic theology, historical theology, practical theology, and narrative theology, and while they all have their strengths, none seem to meet all three requirements above.

Biblical myths are often the telling of a composite of historical events in narrative form that reveal the accumulated wisdom of the people of God.

Bartlett's imagery fuses art historical, biblical and literary narratives in contemporary contexts.