But does a term like alpha male, coined in 1935 to describe the leader of a wolf pack, make any
sense in a human context?
This is what Views 3 («critical contextualization») and 4 («divine revelation
given in human contexts») are all about.
Then he proceeded to answer his own question by proposing three basic postulates or principles that we do well to keep in mind when examining issues such as those that surface — or lie just beneath the surface — of Hiebert's «The
Gospel in Human Contexts.»
Thus, if I call some microevent act - like or ascribe act - temporality to it, it is the natural home of the
term in its human context that provides the sanction for the metaphorical extension of it to the microevent.
There are so many disparate ingredients jammed together here (The film's climax even reveals an affecting emotional core that redefines
events in a human context), yet the film finds an inherent order in the chaos.
The aim is to extend preconceived notions to the limit, thus creating a particular perspective of the world, which can
fit in any human context.
To help put the report's
results in a human context, the Guardian has created an interactive that calculates how much climate change you will experience in your lifetime.
(4) Biblical texts must be
understood in their human context: for otherwise we shall fail to read their real point out of them and instead read into them points they are not making at all.
View 4, «divine revelation
given in human contexts,» represents an extension and elaboration of «critical contextualization.»
An Abbreviated Overview of Paul Hiebert's Essay, «The
Gospel in Human Contexts: Changing Perceptions of Contextualization»
Oh, next time I go to the zoo, I'll say HI to some of your relatives that didn't evolve Mr. Catholic Christian believing in «An evolving creation»; where the principles of biological and social evolution are indeed part of the design of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE»
in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.
*** Having said this, I am a catholic christian and I believe in «An evolving creation»; where the principles of biological and social evolution are indeed part of the design of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE»
in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.The few parts of the Bible and other holy books that are actually accurate, are more metaphorical to me than literal.
Having said this, I am a catholic christian and I believe in «An evolving creation»; where the principles of biological and social evolution are indeed part of the design of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE»
in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.
Packer argues that the «biblical texts must be understood
in their human context» while Donald Bloesch's christological hermeneutic emphasizes the need to go beyond the literal sense of the text to discern its larger significance.