Sentences with phrase «narratives of»

Our chief aim in preaching must be to expose the meaning for redemptive history in all the narratives of the New Testament which are written from a mythological point of view.

Faith in the resurrection does not spring from the historical narratives of the resurrection, the empty tomb, etc..

This movement of going from beginning to end in the narratives of historical critics can make it seem as if the beginning accounts for the end, rather than the end representing an astonishing fulfillment and supersession of what went before.

The narratives of the New Testament become ghostly figures which haunt us in the twilight between «being» and «validity», between reality and the bare data of consciousness.

In this connection we think particularly of the narratives of the Baptism and the Crucifixion.

And so adequate a transcript of the event itself is this «remembering» community that the Resurrection of Jesus is not a datum of faith but a postulate of the community's experience, and the apostolic narratives of resurrection are superfluous, from the point of men of faith.

The influence of such eyewitnesses would he most evident in the case of narratives of events and occasions, as distinct from collections of sayings and teaching material.

This book is about the historical, cultural background to the birth narratives of Jesus in the Gospels.

This is evident in the three remarkable call - narratives of Isaiah 6, Jeremiah I, and Ezekiel I; pointedly in Amos 3:8, 7:15; and in Jeremiah 20:8 b f.

For a fuller commentary on this, and other narratives of the united Israelite kingdom, see B. D. Napier, From Faith to Faith, New York, 1955, pp. 108 - 155.

This is the theological theme repeatedly sounded throughout Samuel - Kings — in the narratives of Israel under the Philistines, of Saul, of David, of Solomon, and of the succession of the kings of Israel, North and South, to the tragic closing of Israelite monarchy.

This is the first occurrence of the term «Christ» in the narratives of Jesus» ministry in the Synoptic Gospels.

But in Niebuhr's view, the narratives of scripture not only render characters and circumstances, they also refer to experienced realities.

The recognition of the kerygmatic character of the gospels, and of the fact that the kerygma was not confined to the historical narratives of the gospels, made the right interpretation of the mythology of the New Testament more urgent than it had ever been before.

We owe the Red Sea story in its present form to them, as well as the narratives of the conquest of Canaan, particularly the story of the fall of Jericho.

Otherwise, I'll assume that no one here has even a mildly curious hypothesis about how and why different prehistoric people all came up with creation stories that are crude and primitive narratives of the multi-billion year creation theories that we bandy about today.

Defenders of the traditional view too often draw the conclusion that if the Gospel narratives of the resurrection are not historically true, then it makes the apostles and early Christians to be liars.

In large part, sexual morality has been transformed by the aesthetics of pop culture, with its rhetorically loaded narratives of liberating the marginal and giving voices to the victims.

What is needed are the images and narratives of faith, and the awareness that the use of metaphors can be a political act (Troeger drawing from Sallie McFague).

«A prominent thread running through the narratives of my gay brothers and sisters is a church that no longer values them.

In some of the greatest historical narratives of the Bible the specifically religious element is quite in the background and the secular human interest is to the fore; for example, in the moving story of David and Absalom.

The role of the Word of Yahweh is essentially the same in the remarkable call narratives of Isaiah (ch.

It is not without significance that in the New Testament narratives of the resurrection of Christ, it is said (as in the story of the walk to Emmaus in St. Luke's Gospel) that «he was known to them in the breaking of the bread».

And while I enjoying doing so, and learned a lot, and believe the people who heard these sermons learned a lot, it was always a relief to leave Paul and get into one of the narratives of Scripture (such as Genesis, Esther, or Jonah — which I have also preached), or my favorite of all — one of the Gospels.

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.

To put it another way, in living out of the inherited symbols and narratives of one's faith, one isn't just applying dead truths to a living situation.

We're in a different genre here from that represented by, say, the Gospel narratives of Jesus» last days or the stories of the reign of King David in 2 Samuel, which read much more like eyewitness history.

To count these moral costs requires us to take several heart - wrenching steps away from the names, faces and complicated narratives of those who might benefit from ESCR.

If faith gives form to the structure of the stories of Genesis, and if the stories are therefore instructive to the continuing faith of Israel, it is also clear that Israel, early and late, enjoyed the narratives of the fathers.

Commercials, MTV (whose music and fast - paced visual rhythms almost hypnotically envelop us), soap operas and situation comedies give us detailed, visual narratives of the ups and downs of the American Dream.

Runciman's History resembles the medieval chronicles on which it is based, using narratives of events and depictions of individuals to draw moral as well as historical lessons: «by the inexorable laws of history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.»

There are differences of a literary kind between the narratives of Joseph and Abraham - Jacob.

«Care involves structured and intentional organization in response to specific educational, relational, and existential needs,» says Larry Kent Graham (Discovering Images of God: Narratives of Care Among Lesbians and Gays).

The narratives of the Bible report those acts for the same purpose and even prescribe ritual events for the telling and retelling of the sacred stories.

The elaborate narratives of Matthew and Luke may be the result of legendary or literary development; but that Jesus could speak of his own inner experiences in figurative or perhaps visionary language is shown later by his exclamation when the disciples reported their success in casting out demons (Lk 10:18): «I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.»

Third, I believe the gospel narratives of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were much more subversive than McKnight wants to allow (pp. 80, 142 - 144).

The narratives of Christ's redemptive acts touch Murdoch because they reveal a God who, in the Apostle Paul's formulation, came to save us while we were yet sinners, before we had loved him.

In Elijah, however, the Word becomes more consciously an instrumental entity, and for the first time (in the narratives of I Kings 17 - 19; 21) we suspect a Contemporaneous apprehension by a prophet of the Word that is substantially the Word of classical prophetism.

Diaspora and pilgrimages were not just part of the corporate memory of his people; they belonged to his own personal history, as Matthew's narratives of Jesus» exile in Egypt show (Matt.

That this held true at the beginning of Israel's relationship with Yahweh is revealed in the narratives of Sinai.

V «Priestly» laws and narratives of Genesis - to - Joshua («P») written on basis of earlier traditions.

Prime examples of this theology are found in the narratives of two dinner parties: one by the oaks of Mamre and the other in the village of Bethany.

We don't just investigate the world at a scientific level: We also seek to give meaning to our lives, and to connect our own small narratives with the larger narratives of the world around us.

The bitcoin craze sweeping the planet with the ferocity of a Trump tweet is inspiring songs, creating millionaires, unnerving banks and giving writers and filmmakers potent narratives of Gold Rush fever and dark web intrigue.

Millennials, for all the abuse they take in the media and the narratives of the older generations, are by and large a much more put - together generation than we give them credit for.

But the inverse narratives of the Facebook and Twitter IPOs show that over time, performance talks and buzz fades.

These were conventional narratives of companies gone bad and there were issues of corporate malfeasance and such, but that's not what happened in the story of BlackBerry.

«Such selective and discriminatory acts will only serve to embolden the radical narratives of extremists and will provide further fuel to the advocates of violence and terrorism,» the group added in the statement.

With weak oil prices and international sanctions crushing Russia's economy, «Putin has little else to offer to the public besides the classic narratives of Russia as a besieged fortress surrounded by enemies,» Borschevskaya said.

I loved learning about history as a kid, and the first - person narratives of princesses was one way to get me deeply involved.