Sentences with phrase «modern biblical approaches»

Not exact matches

Virtually all of the most renowned biblical scholars of our era — the names of G. Ernest Wright and Rudolf Bultmann come to mind — either have not investigated the biblical theology of nature or have «discovered» that the biblical approach to nature is substantially the same as the modern theological approach.

While biblical criticism examines these claims without presupposing that the words are divinely given, the approach of the modern inerrancy writers is one that affirms the absolute factual accuracy of the text and then seeks to explain away any conflicts.

The author looks at why we can not simply assert the truth of the Bible over our modern common sense and shows that Biblical literalism / inerrancy is an approach to the Scriptures that is unacceptable both to our reason and to our faith.

Because of the Second Vatican Council's endorsement of a biblical approach to revelation, with special emphasis on the «Word of God,» Catholic theology has been implicitly commissioned to mine the resources of modern Protestant theology of revelation which traditionally has been much more explicitly concerned with the theme of God's word.

Fruitful as this work may be, however, Collins makes the unwarranted assumption that modern biblical study is intrinsically antithetical to theological exegesis when in fact only the historical - critical claim to final interpretive authority contradicts a theological approach.