Sentences with phrase «narrative sense of»

In a statement about the eyewitness testimony, the trial judge found that «Each of three women, no matter how well intentioned, tried to make narrative sense of the events by working backwards from their consequences.»

When a parish lacks a narrative sense of its corporate identity, it will probably assume that its nature is the aggregate of personal stories of individuals prominent in its life.

Not exact matches

That makes sense to entrepreneurs like Sankhla, who say they see their fate tied with the larger American Dream narrative of the U.S. and its immigrant culture.

Thus, in a compelling sense, the Christian narrative» indeed all of history» is a story appreciated most fully when read «backward,» in the exegetical light of that resurrection.

The historian said: «Familiarity with the biblical narrative of the crucifixion has dulled our sense of just how completely novel a deity Christ was.

The life of the individual Christian, on this account, makes sense and achieves meaning through participation in this communally recounted narrative.

It is memoria, in this sense, that enables us to think of our lives in meaningfully narrative terms: the whole project of identifying and pursuing a coherent life would be impossible without memoria.

The longevity of the Genesis story doesn't owe itself to some robust sense of historical accuracy — indeed there is no way to prove or disprove the narrative today, and efforts to prove it are pointless.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

In this sense we say things like, «it is in the nature of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etc..

This show suggests this is a common narrative among our generation — that though Dory longs for a greater sense of purpose, life can turn out to be numbingly normal.

It was a matter of setting out the larger story, the narrative framework, which makes sense of and brings order to God's world and God's people.»

His narrative is interlarded with swift, ejaculatory appeals to God, (E.g., Nehemiah 4:4; 5:19; 6:9, 14; 13:14, 22, 29) sometimes ethically dubious as when he calls down divine wrath on his enemies, sometimes high - minded and devout, but always revealing an intimate sense of the spiritual presence and availability of the living God.

and certainly the narrative makes perfect sense with the omission of vv.

Indeed, as early as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension as a movement in space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated into mythical form, i.e. a pictorial narrative, the universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to Lordship over all the world.

The grittiness of Lent, and the «intransigent historical claims» without which Easter makes no sense at all, should remind us that Christianity does not rest on myths or «narratives,» but on radically changed human lives whose effect on their times are historical fact.

Sometimes the most secular of scholars found that what Frei was doing, with his attention to narrative and his interest in the language that shapes a particular community, made more sense to them than the work of many theologians much more systematically concerned to address other academic disciplines.

The Radha - Krishna legend, then, is not a story in the sense of an orderly narrative whose protagonists have a shared past and are progressing towards a tragic or happy future.

Principles of interpretation (Hermeneutics) 1) Literal Principle — Scripture is to be understood in its natural, normal sense, read literally 2) Grammar Principle — Deal with what it says in the way it says it, be it using metaphor, simile, narrative, etc. 3) Historical Principle — Read the Bible in its historical context 4) Synthesis Principle — No one part of the Bible contradicts any other part (Scripture interprets Scripture) 5) Practical Principle — It contains a practical application 6) Illumination of the Holy Spirit — It is the job of the Holy Spirit to enlighten the child of God to the meaning of Scripture, without Him, one is without the ability to interpret Scripture

Unlike the authors of Habits, who give the impression that individualism simply leaves people without communities of memory, MacIntyre correctly perceives that everyone lives within these communities, if only because our personal narratives always depend on a sense of history and tradition.

In the ordinary language of educated people logos might mean speech, narrative, pronouncement, report, teaching, call, sense.

«It is more like a collection of narratives poking around a theme that attempts to make sense of this world in all of its mystery and complexity».

The «wrong» kind of Christian is one who insists on a simplistic, one dimensional narrative at the expense of fact, logic, or common sense.

As both Andreopoulos and Nes observe, Eastern writers viewed the transfiguration narrative as a model of our own spiritual ascent toward God, a process by which our spiritual senses gradually awaken to a perception of the divine beauty.

In the present volume there are repeated and sometimes moving narratives of a sense of «coming home» upon joining the homosexual community, much as Cardinal Newman and other converts have written about «coming home» when they joined the Roman Catholic Church.

And the gospel narratives about the resurrection of Jesus portray a «body» which was indeed very strange — a «body» which in one sense is presented as quasi-physical, to be sure, but, which also can appear without movement from place to place, a «body» which bears the marks of his passion, but which is not exactly the same as the body which hung upon the cross.

Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship with the greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention with their own people; and, on the other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the great prophets who follow him and who, essentially, continue the work he began.

The precise phrase that Ahab uses in greeting Elijah does not occur again in subsequent prophetic narratives, but the sense of it conveys the consistent, prevailing annoyance, irritation, frustration, anger, or hostility of king and people — can we say politicians and middle Israelites?

Craddock, too, in Overhearing the Gospel (1978), endorsed «narrative» sermons — not that narrative should replace logic, or that sermons consist only of stories, but that the sermon has «the scope that ties it to the life of a larger community» and touches «intellectual or emotional or volitional» concerns while «conveying the sense of movement from one place to another» and «thinking alongside the hearers.»

We have not an individual identity, but fragments of experience; not the narrative of a life that is in some sense a whole, but a decentered flow of experience.

With a sense of distance and irony, the novel's personal and retrospective narrative takes the tone of a regretful eulogy and / or apology.

the truth of biblical religion is pure and not the problem»... I envy yr faith... human artifacts, especially religious narratives are rarely as pure as you might suggest... at best, I think the scriptures shld be a means and not an end, so in that sense need not be pure... they are merely signposts along the way... ultimately, we are the judges of what is pure or impure, higher or lower, right or wrong

This sense of the centrality of character and the ability to sketch an (l develop the characters of their heroes is one aspect of the notable excellence of Hebrew narrative.

When D. E. Nineham comes to the words of the centurion in his commentary, he notes, «In a very real sense this verse rounds off not only the crucifixion narrative but the whole Gospel.»

You have an overall premise that you have worked hard and studied to make sense of an fit that narrative.

If a congregation persistently wrestles — in sermon, class, and conversation — with its own memory and narrative, it can profoundly deepen its sense of identity with the suffering of the world.

It is not difficult to imagine a catechism for children teaching them the biblical narrative and helping them construct a sense of the whole that goes beyond the bits and pieces of scripture which they typically are taught.

Wesley identifies six streams of this narrative that give him a context in which he can see how his commitment to celibacy makes sense.

But my sense is that the «three dimensional» narrative I propose has a lot more to offer long - term, even though it's harder for devotees of the dominant narrative to accept short - term.

In the Epistle to the Hebrews, where the author is attempting to define or characterize the profoundly religious ideas of priesthood and sacrifice and to show in what sense the work of Christ can be understood in terms of those ideas, he introduces a strangely vivid and moving reference to the narrative of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, which is familiar to us from the gospels (Hebrews 5:7 - 10).

In both cases, the sense of scripture as canonical narrative was abandoned.

Unfortunately narrative theology has been frequently presented as a sense of relief at being delivered from Enlightenment modes of historicity, without attention to the dynamic, positive act of reconstitution.

Because of our contemporary awareness of the evolutionary, narrative character of the universe, and the growing sense of our species» continuity with this emergent process, we are now in a position to interpret the long search of religion as a prolongation of the cosmic struggle toward more intense beauty.

Frei argued that during the Enlightenment this sense of scripture as realistic narrative was lost.

I have studied many other theologies and the theology of the cross that Luther took directly from Paul pretty much (in my mind) makes thebest sense of the entire biblical narrative.

And in a sense this comment is true: interpret the biblical verse or the brief narrative or in a couple of instances even the Old Testament book in isolation and it becomes in meaning something totally different from what was clearly its intent in context.

They already have an appreciation of culture in its broad sense and of the narrative link to social observation.

This model can make good sense of many of the biblical traditions, but not of all: God's particular involvement in human history, his apparent lack of knowledge concerning the future in some of the earlier narratives, his suffering, his willingness on occasion to change his mind.

In this sense each married couple should turn to the Bible seeking the lessons of the divine narrative: not just imagining how the relationship of Adam and Eve must have been before the Fall, but learning from their reactions afterwards - reactions that show a desire to preserve, in new and troublesome circumstances, the purity of that original attraction which they alone had experienced and which they could still recall.

Alter's artistic sense requires and permits him to reject two staples of conventional criticism: the Deuteronomic hypothesis that has never been easy to sustain in regard to Samuel and that constricts the power of the narrative; and the breaking of a unified and coherent narrative into sources, a long - established method of historical criticism.