Sentences with phrase «message of the text»

One of the things I look for most in commentaries is the ability to explain the text in an understandable way while at the same time making the message of the text applicable and pertinent to our time today.

In this sense a process hermeneutic will be more fully «secular» than the new hermeneutic, since it will recognize that all beings, in all times and places, who can in the full sense be named human persons, are — simply by virtue of their humanity — capable of grasping (and being grasped by) the message of the text.

But that begs the critical question: what is the message of the text?

Why not re-create with the congregation his inductive experience of coming to an understanding of the message of the text?

It is, however, a call for a program of Biblical study and Biblical preaching that is more realistic and more responsible as far as the bearing of the congregation's situation upon understanding the message of the text is concerned.

Biblical preaching that is preaching is not repetition of the words of the text but a new expression of the message of the text in language indigenous to the situation addressed.

And whether you believe Moses wrote Genesis 1 - 2 or some nameless Priestly author and Yahwist, you can still find great truth in the message of the text itself.

But how is it possible to come to an understanding which on one hand is not based on some arbitrary choice of particular aspects, but on the other hand allows me to hear the message of the text and not something coming from my own self?

They trade the messages of some text with it and you two seem to strike it immediately.

The message of the text and the formal treatment of the image reinforce a sense of vulnerability.