Sentences with phrase «kind of text proof»

What kind of text proof will I receive?

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(And rendering only a partial quote is much like biblical proof texting in my opinion) I am kind of a stickler on such details, as a sloppy portrayal of another's words often leads to inaccurate representation of their intent.

To be deep in history is certainly, for instance, to cease to be an evangelical of the kind who allows experience to trump doctrine, who believes doctrine can be read off the surface of the biblical text, and who sees no theological or existential problem that can not be solved with a proof text or two.

But using two proof texts, Genesis 3:16 («To the woman he said, «I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing...»») and Titus 2:4 - 5 («and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands»), he nevertheless concludes: «Wife, mother, homemaker - this is the appointed destiny of real womanhood.

All the semiological systems, along with the linguistic system, must be decoded, and, as Ricoeur says, «that requires a special affinity between the reader and the kind of things the text is about» (19) What is appropriated is not a system of ideas but deep values of truth that are imposed «with such power that no further proof is needed to perceive their validity and reality».

But since the New Testament itself contains various kinds of social witness — as its use both for and against slavery and patriarchy, for example, shows — debate can degenerate into mere thrust and parry of proof - texts with no possibility of resolution, or of even honest concession that both sides can claim biblical warrant.