Sentences with phrase «in biblical perspective»

James B. Hurley, in Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1981) suggests Paul cautions against letting the hair down and loose (rather than keeping it done up).

He ate the apple and he became divine; what, in the biblical perspective, was the original seduction was also the most archaic experience of «consciousness - expansion.»

In the biblical perspective, progress is to be measured in terms of the quality of man's life, his moral and spiritual stature, his corporate existence in community.

In the biblical perspective, God's rationality is reflected in nature; but he did not have to form the precise sort of world he chose to create.

These are significant affirmations, provided it is remembered that in the biblical perspective God is only partially revealed in the created order.

I would also explore the meanings of the Hebrew shalôm and the Greek eirēnē in an attempt to show that the pursuit of peace in the biblical perspective entails more than a spiritual or inner peace.

Stephen B. Clark, Man and Woman in Christ (Ann Arbor: Servant, 1980); James B. Hurley, Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective (Leicester) InterVarsity Press; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1981); George W Knight III, The New Testament Teaching on the Role Relationship of Men and Women (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977); Fritz Zerbst, The Office of Woman in the Church (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1955); Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark), III 1, pp. 288 - 329, section 41 (1958); III 2, pp. 285 - 316, section 45 (1960); III 4, pp. 116 - 240, section 54 (1961).

In the biblical perspective God works and reveals himself in every generation.

Not exact matches

The Bible and the universe Thus it was not the biblical perspective but the Greek view of the cosmos — in which everything revolved around a stationary earth — that was to guide man's concept of the universe for many centuries.

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.

Halfway through the book Harris» perspective changes from describing her sheltered and skewed childhood to recounting her coming of age: At college (the conservative Hillsdale), she finds her own identity, steeps herself in the humanities, embraces biblical egalitarianism, and develops an interest in journalism, which leads her to New York City to begin her career as a writer for a Christian magazine.

Short of such extremes, however, an irresponsible use of freedom, especially in the interests of controversy, often led to loss of a just perspective and distorted the proportions of the biblical picture.

From this new perspective, which is a recovery of the Biblical one, we are in position to challenge economists to engage in a similar repentance.

Broadly speaking, it is probably true to say that the Church was more concerned to communicate the schema to the laity than the Bible itself; but in doing so it ensured that whatever of the biblical material became available, either by direct reading, or through liturgy and offices, through sermons, hymns or pictures, was seen in a well - defined perspective.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

I think this Franciscan teaching may hold a useful key to biblical interpretation that helps us put our subjective experiences and religious formation in perspective:

Most Popular Comment: In response to «Esther and Vashti: The Real Story,» Ed wrote, «While biblical literalists can make an interesting case for wifely submission, (provided you first accept their literal perspective) they also need to take into account the story of Ananias and Sapphira - where Sapphira was held accountable separate from her husband.

«I did not know from a scientific perspective why I did not believe in evolution — but I knew from a Biblical perspective it had to be wrong or my faith was in trouble.»

Last week, we talked about the way in which the word «biblical» gets tossed around so carelessly these days — «biblical» politics, «biblical» courtship, «biblical» economics, «biblical» manhood, «biblical» womanhood — and how any claim to a biblical lifestyle or perspective is inherently selective.

Though we long for the Bible to weigh in on these issues and give us biblical perspectives or answers, we dare not impose such an obligation on the text.

This means that through the internal creativity of the biblical perspective, joined with the modern historical consciousness which it helped to create, a new possibility has been opened up for reconceiving the meaning of God's being in relation to time and history.

Though there are numerous avenues that one might take in seeking to provide a non-Calvinistic perspective on Scripture, the route I have chosen is to emphasize the biblical teaching on «faith alone» and contrast it with what is often taught in Calvinism.

But they also believe that it is more ecological, which confirms the fact, attested by Bernard Anderson in Cry of the Environment, that biblical perspectives, too, often have a strong ecological dimension.

The Christian community now possesses for the first time some excellent scholarly works on the treatment of homosexuality in Scripture, such as Robin Scroggs's The New Testament and Homosexuality (Fortress, 1984) and George Edwards's Gay / Lesbian Liberation: A Biblical Perspective (Pilgrim, 1984).

«13 Gerhard von Rad recalls with approval the suggestion of the Jewish biblical scholar Franz Rosenzweig: we ought no longer to think of the symbol R as standing for Redactor but rather, for Rab benu, which means, in Hebrew, our master»; since for the final form in which we receive the work, we are indebted to him and to his interpretation.14 His was the same historical perspective which gave rise to this prayer:

this is a genuine request: could you maybe help me see your perspective with some biblical examples of redeeming pagan worship in order to glorify God?

I don't feel that is the biblical perspective and I could not perform a gay marriage in good conscience.

Directly or indirectly, Sherburne has influenced the group of process Biblical scholars who have written very effectively in a «thematic issue» of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, entitled «New Testament Interpretation from a Process Perspective» (Volume XLVII, No. 1, March, 1979).

Thus, rather than place the insights of contemporary society in dialogue with Scripture and tradition in a way that maintains Biblical authority, she has compromised the sole authority of Scripture by qualifying it from feminist perspectives.

In fact, as we shall see in Chapter 11, the perspective of biblical faith actually nourishes and supports the process of pure scientific inquirIn fact, as we shall see in Chapter 11, the perspective of biblical faith actually nourishes and supports the process of pure scientific inquirin Chapter 11, the perspective of biblical faith actually nourishes and supports the process of pure scientific inquiry.

From a biblical perspective, he is either lost or in open rebellion against God.

Theological mines abound in that conversation as either perspective seems to overlook important biblical details.

Although the emphasis on biblical languages declined, and the new sciences, including the social sciences, were given large place, these colleges resisted practical training in favor of liberal arts, understood in a humanistic, Christian perspective.

All of these people have different perspectives on life and faith and the Bible, but what they all have in common is a commitment to some idea of «biblical womanhood.»

And in 1937, Yves Congar, later one of the principal theologians at the Second Vatican Council (1962 — 65), wrote a groundbreaking book entitled Divided Christendom, in which he argued for the authentic gifts found in Protestantism and insisted that one could affirm the same biblical truth from different perspectives.

In my experience the people who most benefit from this are people with a negative experience of Christianity who find the message of grace attractive, but claim that seeing God from a perspective of grace is «not biblical».

I agree with what you have written from the biblical perspective and would like to take it further in the sense that that we are all sinners whether fornicators liars homosexuals the difference is that if we decide to follow Jesus we not only repent of our sin but we turn away from continuing to sin Remenber the woman caught in adultery Jesus said go and sin no more that applys to all of us that have accepted Jesus.But unless we die to our desires we cant live for him.brentnz

John Locke, they said, was the key figure in setting forth a «radical philosophical defense of individual rights» of a seventeenth - century political perspective «that owed little to either classical or biblical sources.»

Biblical motifs are usefully viewed in a temporal perspective which moves from creation to consummation.

In the course of many centuries the biblical record has left us with an impressive compendium of historical testimony to God's dealings with Israel, expressed in terms of a wide variety of diverse and often conflicting perspectives, which so perplexed the Greek mind as it tried to come to terms with the foundations of Christian theologIn the course of many centuries the biblical record has left us with an impressive compendium of historical testimony to God's dealings with Israel, expressed in terms of a wide variety of diverse and often conflicting perspectives, which so perplexed the Greek mind as it tried to come to terms with the foundations of Christian theologin terms of a wide variety of diverse and often conflicting perspectives, which so perplexed the Greek mind as it tried to come to terms with the foundations of Christian theology.

But as with Evolving in Monkey Town and A Year of Biblical Womanhood, it's important for me to not only share my own story, but also the stories of friends, family, and readers, in an effort to broaden the scope of the project and introduce new perspectives.

On the other hand, such activities require the perspective of Biblical faith which seeks the Kingdom of God on earth without falling into the illusion that we are going to bring this Kingdom into being by our own actions or that we can expect to participate in it within our own time.

In general, a biblical perspective on the power of physical intimacy suggests that the sexual bond between two persons can be a force for good or evil because it is full of mystery, grace, and the fascination of the unknown.

Although it would be possible to defend such a view, which may be implied by some of the essays in these volumes on Biblical interpretation from a process perspective, I prefer not to do so for two reasons.

Rather, when the reader is caught up in the perspective of the biblical writer, he encounters God as the divine Thou who addresses him Thou to thou.

OTPP — J. Gerald Janzen, «The Old Testament in «Process» Perspective: Proposal for a Way Forward in Biblical Theology,» MD 480 - 509.

The more realistic biblical perspective on human nature makes it possible to realize that a marriage may not be a union in which personalities are well balanced.

The process - relational model of God as the most extensive exemplification of primordial creativity, with every worldly occasion in its own process of becoming; the process - relational concept of God as the principle of order channeling the world's becoming toward ever richer and more harmonious experience (the primordial nature); and the process - relational concept of God's preservation of every worldly occasion in God's own everlasting becoming (the consequent nature), with each such occasion evaluated and positioned for its greatest possible contribution to the divine life — these perspectives on divine reality which process - relational thought claims to find exemplified in the very nature of things are separately and together congruent with and supportive of the biblical images and events which describe the «already» in inaugurated eschatology.»

I noticed an interview on the homepage of their Web site in which Anne Coulter was chosen to represent a «decidedly biblical perspective» on David Wheaton's Christian Worldview RadioProgram.

The biblical perspective in regard to «corporate personality» is now restored in quite «secular» circles; to be a person means to be intimately and essentially related with other men.