Sentences with phrase «informed by the scripture»

While our understanding of God might begin with the scripture and be well informed by the scripture, it does not end with the scripture.

«Hooker's insistence on «reason» was therefore not at all a way of undervaluing scripture,» says Wright, «but rather of ensuring that the community which based itself on scripture could have an appropriate healthy life and growth, not blundering forward as it were in the dark, but moving ahead by the light of reason, itself informed by scripture and in harmony with the natural law which stemmed from the creator God in the first place.»

Not exact matches

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

In this tract Wesley seems to come to his high ideal of «perfect love» in his reading of Scripture informed by a variety of the great spiritual teachers of the church who emphasized similar themes.

One wonders, then, whether the fullest definition of «reading backwards» ought also to include retrospective reinterpretation of the Scriptures informed by the theological tradition, the rule of faith, and church history.

I see ethics, spirituality, catechetics, preaching, and all pastoral counsel as needing to be informed and regulated by theological interpretation of Scripture, and I do not expect to see any good practical Christianity where this discipline is neglected.

I advised him to read broadly in Christian Tradition and then return to scripture informed by what the voices of the great cloud of witnesses to which he belonged had said about it.

Some years ago James Smart observed that one of the reasons the Bible is «strangely silent» in congregations is because pastors are not able to bring a «critical» perspective on Scripture to bear on faith issues.5 With that in mind, I have attempted to address a biblically informed theological reflection to the key issues raised by transition in culture, church, and family.

Those beliefs were more informed by culture wars than Scripture.

These statements carefully examine theological topics such as justification by faith and the relationship between Scripture and tradition, as well as theologically informed cultural issues such as religious freedom and marriage.

Many of my students insisted that their political attitudes were informed by an untainted reading of Scripture and unsusceptible to bias — that is, social factors that influence our attitudes beyond our awareness.

First - time feature director Richard Ramsey's screenplay is informed by the Song of Solomon — a reference that is hammered home throughout the overlong film courtesy of scripture - quoting voice - overs.