Sentences with phrase «larger biblical context»

Now I understand that what they are doing is trying to let scripture speak for itself, but when I respond with a larger biblical context and an explanation of it I am met with deafening silence.

Not exact matches

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.

In fact, for fundamentalists the biblical book qua book does not really exist; rather, the Bible is an unsystematic anthology of individual verses or short passages that are unrelated to their Contexts and to the larger works in which they are embedded.