Sentences with phrase «in biblical tradition»

Dissent, in the biblical tradition that commends fidelity to God and neighbor, is a universal alternative to it.

And the last prophets in the Biblical tradition were John the Baptist and Christ.

Over the centuries he argues Christians «have seldom taken Islam with the seriousness it deserves or recognised it for what it is - a religion in the biblical tradition in which piety is wedded to statecraft.»

In the biblical tradition, the key word for understanding individual motivation is «conscience.»

Whereas the central term for understanding individual motivation in the biblical tradition was «conscience,» the central term in the utilitarian tradition was «interest.»

The view expressed above is soundly rooted in the biblical tradition (which affirms the sovereignty of Jesus Christ in all areas of life).

In the biblical tradition the limitations of models are recognized.

It's just that the word doesn't mean what it means in the biblical tradition.

In the biblical tradition another metaphor for infidelity, like adultery, is the metaphor idolatry.

Wesley, Wilberforce and Charles Finney's evangelical abolitionists stood solidly in the biblical tradition in their search for justice for the poor and oppressed of their time.

It is not by chance that more than one sage in the biblical tradition was not Jewish.

In the biblical tradition, our resurrection is a participation in Christ's resurrection, construed as an historical event which contravenes the historical reality of his death, and thus — in Whiteheadian terms — interrupts the perpetual perishing of occasions.

The consummation of Christ's embodiment in the world and the perfecting of Christ's individual members await the new aeon with which «individual salvation» is indissolubly linked in biblical tradition (cf., Mark 1.15, Rom.

This habit (to use O'Connor's phrase) is present in the biblical tradition and has been lifted into systematic theological method by the United Methodist Church itself.

Another powerful image in the biblical tradition that is helpful in the development of a theology of nature is found in the second chapter of Genesis where God commissions Adam to name the animals.

But this is not to say that the product of wisdom in the biblical tradition is merely an Egyptian or Babylonian copy.

Church people have a deep history of interest in the city, one that is rooted in biblical tradition.

It is my contention that a theology of Black liberation also must embrace an organic worldview, not only because it is consistent with the authentic roots of Black Americans but because it also represents something fundamental in the Biblical tradition.

From his analysis emerges perhaps the most important task of all for modern Christians: Christians should not only advocate peace to fend off the negative threat of nuclear war, but must articulate, espouse and live a positive vision and motivation for peace that is grounded in the biblical tradition.

He acknowledges the importance of personalistic imagery in the biblical tradition.

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.

In the present text of this narrative, Moses goes up and down Mount Sinai no less than three times, and for a man reputed in the biblical tradition to be in his eighties, that is no small chore.

A sixth dimension, closely related to the first, third, and fourth dimensions, is grounding the theological position historically, showing the new features to be authentic developments of the Holy - Spirit - inspired trajectory of the human spirit that is recorded in the biblical tradition.

This is the unity, the wholeness, the integral and inseparable oneness that has been affirmed in the biblical tradition.

Curiously, the religious dimension of the new global society may draw on some of the long - neglected elements in the biblical tradition itself.

We are somewhat led astray by the tendency, even in the biblical tradition, to conceive the creation before sin as idyllic bliss.

I can see that there are roots of this atomism in the biblical tradition, but I am also convinced that they do not dominate it.

With the great Jewish thinker of the early part of this century, Franz Rosenzweig, he believes that Jews need to understand anew that «the Jewish vocation, rooted in the biblical tradition, is to be an instrument for the redemption of all humankind.»

In the Biblical tradition, justice is the identifying characteristic of Yahweh and the first prerequisite for a peaceable society.15 A philosophy which does any less is inadequate to our religious insight and will prove counterrevolutionary in its consequences.

Even patriarchy's deepest plots have not wholly» silenced women in the biblical tradition, nor does our knowledge of these infamous «proceedings» have to cancel other values of Scripture for us.

But in the biblical traditions, God can not be understood directly.

Not exact matches

Such cowardly acts have no basis in the broader scheme of Biblical teaching and tradition.

Such a shift has great implications for theological method in the Wesleyan tradition and for its view of biblical authority.

The religious insight of the exodus story works itself into the Biblical tradition in many ways.

«The tone of the writing, the format of the page, and the directness of the dialog allows the tradition of passing down the biblical narrative to come through in «The Voice.»»

to the new intellectual environment, combined with the fact that Wesley did seem easily to appropriate the emerging biblical scholarship of his day, are grounds for suggesting that the Wesleyan tradition is more appropriately viewed as non-fundamentalist, even among those who wish to live in more direct continuity with the spiritual dynamic of the founder.

Of course, these biblical passages have in mind, in particular, the transmission of a religious tradition: the story of God's care for his people.

Those that systematize biblical teaching are usually influenced both by the ways this has been done in the tradition and by what seems credible today.

Yet this obsession with greatness and number - one - ness, whether of individuals, nations or civilizations, has always stood in a rather awkward relationship to the biblical tradition — however much Christendom has failed to sense the awkwardness.

Do they derive from the Judaeo ‑ Christian tradition and do they make sense only in the context of a biblical world view?

Though later wise men from the East come to Herod's palace to pay homage to the newborn «king,» they find him in the only place consistent with the rest of the biblical tradition: among the lowest of the low.

Centuries of separation and polemics have led Protestantism in some quarters to imagine that the biblical witness could be disentangled from the Church's history, tradition, and teaching office.

In addition to sociology, tradition, and biblical authority there is Luther's teaching on marriage and family life.

When Friedrich Nietzsche, in his several tirades against Christianity, points to these elements as of the essence of the biblical tradition, he is certainly correct — though not in the dark conclusions he draws from the observation,

Theology in the Reformation tradition has explored other alternatives, as in the «Andover theory» which views biblical texts such as 2 Peter 3:19 «20 and 4:6 and Christ's descent to the dead referenced in the Apostles» Creed as warranting belief in the Hound of Heaven pursuing the last and the least.

Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual of America's civil religion, but President Obama took the oath of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting out a biblical vision of equality that includes race, gender, class, and, most controversially, sexual orientation.

In my experience the reformed traditions (baptists, presbyterian, and many independent churches; the puritans and anabaptists also came from this branch) can tend toward legalism; the pentecostal traditions (Church of Christ, Assembly of God, vineyard, many independent churches etc.) can tend toward biblical literalism and a bit of a herd mentality; the lutheran tradition can tend toward antinomianism, while the anglican and wesleyan traditions do the best at shooting down the middle (though I am admittedly biased).

Theological hermeneutics should have a «spiral structure» in which there is ongoing circulation between culture, tradition, and biblical text, each enriching the understanding of the other.

«3 Theology today must attempt to reappropriate Christian tradition and biblical faith in terms of our contemporary situation and language.

Nor are the Church's opponents likely to be sufficiently embedded in the Christian tradition to be able to participate in biblical scholarship.