Sentences with phrase «immediate context»

This is a very sensitive and perceptive reading in which interpretations are grounded both in immediate context and in the context of the whole book.

2 For people like Niebuhr, totalitarianism abroad and racism at home provided the most immediate context for thinking about the reforms that a progressive Christianity might bring to civilization.

3) Always favor a verse's immediate context over passages farther away, working in concentric circles.

In the more immediate context, 1 John 5:10 is also helpful.

This becomes particularly important to us, in our present immediate context, when we consider the practice of the apostle Paul.

Obviously, the scale is different and the stakes are different, but it does have a certain immediate context that it won't have a couple of years (or even a couple of months) from now.

It is made more powerful by the fact that the AR now has immediate context because it is directly relevant to place or target where you are» he says.

This means that to me, the level of control used is dependent on both the parents» general level of awareness (high or low) and the state of consciousness of the particular moment (dependent on immediate context, mood etc.).

In his session on «identity resolution», Joe Stanhope, the VP Principal Analyst at Forrester said that, «consumers expect to get what they want in their immediate context and moment of need.»

You can listen to that interview in its entirety here, but here is the quote in its immediate context.

Linker looks beyond the immediate context and wonders whether a future secular America will in fact bode well for liberals, especially given recent trends in the alt - right.

The «Golden Rule» of Interpretation: «When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise.»

In the context of 1 Timothy the most likely interpretation that takes into account the immediate context is that, rather than abandoning their intended roles by demanding teaching and authoritative positions in the church, women will find true fulfillment through childbearing.

This is the immediate context of the feeding of the five thousand.

That is, many contemporary theologies tend to believe that we can derive the normative content of faith, truth and justice directly from the immediate contexts of our social, economic and political situations; at the same time, other contemporary theologies have abandoned even trying to argue that theological claims are in any sense normative.

When our efforts to follow Jesus repeatedly prove unsuccessful, and when we are very tired and frustrated, we are tempted to forget about the needs of the wider world and simply adjust to our immediate context and the minimum that it demands of us.

«All men» is most plausibly understood, in this immediate context and in the wider perspective of the Gospel of John, as «types of men».

2) name usage statistics do not guarantee the miraculous — but they certainly place an author in that immediate context (or at the very least, with direct access to someone who was from that immediate context), which is a MAJOR contingency that has been much debated in the question of authorship... which IS the topic you raised.

Indeed, [d] expresses the same tension between order and novelty that was already expressed in the lines that precede it, except that the tension is expressed, in [d], in a technical language (with terms such as physical feelings and intellectual feelings) that is not used in the immediate context.

aside from several other internal evidences to the contrary (as i mentioned before, look up the pool of Bethesda), here is an extra-biblical corroboration of the immediate context regarding names.

This literary context usually has connections with the immediate context (paragraph or section), and with more remote parts of the book.

Having background knowledge of where you're going will help you know how you can best fit and help in your immediate context.

Here in the immediate context of Galatians 2, the term is set in contrast with «freedom in Christ».

In settings where anxiety levels run high, either from the immediate context or from the painful memories which that context evokes, some individuals find it necessary to engage in what Sullivan calls «parataxic distortions» whereby the self - system distorts reality in some way to offset the anxiety.

But even if they did, the immediate context of a word has stronger bearing on its meaning than more remote contexts.

We should know too whether the silence rule of I Corinthians I4: 34 means that, after all, women must not lead in prayer nor prophesy publicly, as 11:4 - 10 seemed to allow them to do, or only that women must take no part in judging prophets, which is the theme of the immediate context, 14:29 - 33.

But like all works of architecture, sacred buildings reflect not only a faith tradition but the values and concerns of the builders» immediate context.

Moreover, as the immediate context of the dinner was Jesus» travels, Martha was correct in seeking to be hospitable.

Since the entire Bible and the immediate context is very clear that some judgment must take place, Jesus is saying that we should not judge unjustly.

We need Biblical research into the literary genre of the text and its immediate context.

The immediate context of a passage should be considered before one looks at other parallel texts.

Jewish Gentile relationship is the immediate context within which Paul reflects on his faith.

Such limits do give definiteness to the content of faith, but encountering revelation means, above all, being confronted by the inviting and challenging futurity of divine mystery in the immediate context of our own concrete situations.

Perhaps it also indicates how absorbed we are in our immediate context, which causes us to think in terms of decline and uncertainty rather than growth.

With the theology of the Reformation and Protestant orthodoxy, I hold that we should begin by ascertaining the literal sense of the text ---- what was in the mind of the author --- and we can do this only by seeing the passage in question in its immediate context.

BTW, one of the first rules in interpretation is looking at the immediate context; and going from that point.

In its immediate context it is clear that Jesus is referring to the overthrow of Satan by himself.

There is no statement in the immediate context about a second coming of Jesus.

Eagles / Vultures: Proverbs 30:17, Hosea 8:1, but especially Isaiah 34:15 in the immediate context about judgement

An affirmative answer to this question receives some confirmation from the fact that within the immediate context we find some other words and phrases which point to the influence of the Baal cult on the language of Hosea and his contemporaries.

Examination of the immediate context has helped us understand other translations, but will not be of particular help here.