Sentences with phrase «modern biblical criticism»

A progressive intellectual writes an immensely popular book of modern biblical criticism, showing that God's Word, properly understood, calls for world peace and the unity of religion.

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The more salient criticism, however, is theological: the churches have determined wrongly that modern political economy is incompatible with biblical religion and thus to be dismissed from Christian consciousness.

Then came the revival of biblical criticism, and the modern period began.

Do you agree that the presuppositions and goals of biblical criticism are inherently flawed and could also be used to undermine the writings of any modern author as well?

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.

There is biblical history, theology, archaeology, «criticism,» and hermeneutics (what happens to the Bible at the modern end of the sausage grinder).

Literary criticism is the foundation of all biblical study and was the first to be developed in the modern period.

Problems of relating biblical criticism and modern philosophies to Christian tradition are still in a state of flux that would seem familiar to an early - century theologian.

But in the nineteenth century this widespread confidence in the Bible was badly shaken, as biblical scholars began to study it with the modern tools of literary and historical criticism.

The biblical theology to which he refers emerged after World War II as a consensus with certain characteristics: (1) the Bible is assumed to be relevant for modern men and women; (2) biblical criticism is to be accepted; (3) the message of the Bible is a unity, if a unity in diversity; (4) revelation is historical encounter rather than right doctrine; (5) the biblical (Hebraic) mentality is distinctive.

Starting as it does from the modern world view, and challenging the Biblical mythology and the traditional proclamation of the Church, this new kind of criticism is performing for faith the supreme service of recalling it to a radical consideration of its own nature.

An important footnote to this chapter in the development of modern biblical scholarship is the fact that source criticism was often called (and still is sometimes called) «literary criticism.»

If the mainline churches fail to enliven and strengthen their membership, what will happen to modern Christians — to those concerned with evolving creation, biblical criticism and social action?

Like many other old liberal Protestant ideas, Dibelius's view passed into wide circulation in the Catholic world when biblical studies engaged with modern historical criticism at the time of the Second Vatican Council.