Sentences with phrase «modern interpreters»

Many other modern interpreters of marriage have made the same mistake, and so have many people in American churches, who are tempted to join with Coontz and insist that couples get married for reasons of love alone, Economic, kinship and network issues and even the desire to have children are sometimes seen as contaminations of the purity of marital love.

And Brown reminds modern interpreters, particularly on the matter of sexuality, that Augustine was the defender of marriage against the extreme asceticism of his contemporaries.

Modern interpreters tell us that the people possessed by demons in the Gospels probably suffered from forms of mental illness.

The latter are often presented «as straightforward narratives of events,» as modern interpreters often find «exclusively non-physical spiritual significance in these accounts» and even engage in allegory while leaving historical questions of facticity at the margins.

It is possible that his thinking about the kingdom was simply theocratic, and many competent modern interpreters claim that this was the case; (Among these may be mentioned S. J. Case, Jesus: A New Biography [Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Modern interpreters of archaic religion as diverse as Lucien Levy - Bruhl and Eric Voegelin have found this phenomenon, though of course they have differed in their theories about it.

A modern interpreter, S. Radhakrishnan, comments on the tolerance of Hinduism in allowing both personal and impersonal representations of the divine.

Enns goes on to examine various passages from Second Temple literature to show how «biblical interpreters exhibit for us an attitude toward biblical interpretation that operates on very different standards from those of modern interpreters.

Where do we modern interpreters stand with respect to the objects we explain?

michael fox is surely currently the chief sage amongst the modern interpreters of biblical wisdom literature