Sentences with phrase «of biblical authority»

After reading your responses to my post, «When a Theology Just Doesn't Feel Right,» I felt it appropriate to address the topic of biblical authority, as our discussion often drifted in that direction.

A big problem I see is the way we construct notions of biblical authority.

Since we have nailed the flag of biblical authority to the mast of an encounter with God, we can not avoid asking how one knows he has encountered God.

Thus, no concept of biblical authority can ignore these twin modifiers of our knowledge of God: finitude (historicity) and perversity (sin).

the revision of biblical authority as an absolute, propositional standard into a narrative structure 7.

In addition to these themes of creation and providence, let us look briefly at the problem of biblical authority.

What Sheehan describes is not so much a loss as a reconstruction of biblical authority.

Willett, the more active writer, applied new scientific and historical methods to the study of the Bible and challenged traditional notions of biblical authority.

The Enlightenment Bible had authority, but its authority «had no essential center» since it was distributed among the disciplines that scrutinized it, each of which «offered its own answer to the question of biblical authority.»

Fundamentalists believe they are acting in the name of biblical authority.

Recognizing the claim of biblical authority is not difficult as it pertains to the main affirmations of apostolic faith.

On what basis do they accept this extreme version of biblical authority?

The claim of Biblical authority stands central within evangelical theology.

The task of confronting the nonevangelical world over the issue of Biblical authority is being undercut by the desire to challenge fellow evangelicals» notions of inspiration What is distinctively evangelical needs again to be forcefully presented to the wider Christian community.

Faithfulness to Christ supports our recognition of our rootedness in the Bible and the history it recounts, but it alters the nature of Biblical authority as it opens us to awareness of the patriarchal character of all our Scripture and tradition.

Put most simply, the issue is this: how do evangelicals translate their understanding of Biblical authority from theory into practice?

It is not the theoretical underpinnings of Biblical authority that are in error, but the evangelical community's inability to translate theory into practice.

That is, how can evangelicals maintain their theoretical paradigm of Biblical authority while subscribing to contradictory positions on a variety of significant theological issues?

There is a fascinating story here to be told - but one which would take us too far afield from this discussion - about the intricate interplay between the crises of biblical authority and Christian belief on the one hand and the rise of the novel and the growth of art history and literary criticism on the other.

Without some such resolve, evangelicals will find their paradigms of Biblical authority ringing increasingly hollow.

What is being challenged by the continuing debate is the nature and efficacy of Biblical authority itself.

Having come to associate the direct application of Scripture to governance with violent conflict and political instability, English Protestants were primed to turn to Enlightenment ideals that promised a reasonable path to tolerance and peaceful governance at the expense of biblical authority.

It is an affirmation and not, as many conservative evangelicals have reflexively assumed, a questioning of biblical authority when the language of liberation and empowerment prove fruitful in understanding further dimensions of what salvation always meant according to the scriptural witness, even though we had not previously been pushed to see it that clearly.

Some of us might be more sympathetic to Lindsell and his aims if we could read his book as a defense of biblical authority or as an analysis of the failure of the church (including the «evangelical» church) to find a mode of life and witness that seems authentically «biblical.»

But while Lindsell obviously intends to meet these concerns, his book is actually a repristination (and often less subtle than earlier expressions) of a particular timebound formulation of biblical authority that is being seen by increasing numbers of evangelicals not only to have outlived its usefulness but to have become a positive hindrance to the understanding of the fuller and deeper significance of the Scriptures.

Therefore this concept of biblical authority is a weapons emplacement which must be destroyed first before the rest of Christian belief can be successfully breached.

On the question of biblical authority in Reformation theology much has been written but especial note should be taken on A. Skevington Wood, Captive to the Word: Martin Luther, Doctor of Sacred Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969); Kenneth Kantzer, «Calvin and the Holy Scripture,» in Inspiration and Interpretation, ed.

It is not enough to receive it as the occasion of an encounter with God (although it is) or as an invitation to join up with God's plan for human liberation (also true) or a host of other redefinitions of the nature of biblical authority.

It is clear then why the question of biblical authority is so important to evangelicals: belief in the infallibility of the Scriptures is the pillar which supports our theology - without it the edifice would surely crumble.

So, contrary to what the cartoon suggests, the ONLY reason people promote the idea of sexual purity is because of biblical authority.

This would not end disagreements about homosexuality and the nature of Biblical authority, but it might provide a context in which these disagreements could be less threatening and Methodists might be more willing to make room for differences.

Fourth, the understanding of biblical authority they use to justify this program is one that few Methodists would employ in other areas.

This still leaves unanswered the question of Biblical authority.

One thing that often throws people off when I write is that I will sometimes discuss my beliefs from a position of biblical authority when I am speaking with one who has that belief system.

At many points Wesley sounds like a son of the Reformation in his emphasis on the finality of biblical authority and in his desire to be, in the much quoted phrase, a homo unius libri (a «man of one book»).

Such a shift has great implications for theological method in the Wesleyan tradition and for its view of biblical authority.

Not exact matches

But the task of preserving even our moral floor is complicated by the determination of many that «we» should have free and full access to the remissive power of Christian forgiveness without any of the interdictory authority of biblical faith — even if this means that this power can only be «pried from God's clutches» by corrupting it, on at least some important occasions, into nihlistic nonjudgmentalism.

They turned from the authority of the church as interpreter of Scripture to the biblical texts themselves.

I would also contend that only a biblical understanding that Jesus of Nazareth is now the risen Lord provides an adequate authority and an unshakable hope for a nonviolent movement.

I accept the Bible's authority; at the same time I have wondered — as with suicide — about a precise identification of every person of this type with the biblical model» («The Bible and Two Tough Topics,» Eternity, August 1974).

The Catholic Church is and has been the Biblical teaching authority for ALL Christians for 2000 + years and will continue to be because Jesus said all the powers of hell (including propserity organizations operating under the pretext of Christianity) would NOT prevail against it.

Secondly as stated further up the thread, the biblical account of creation was to show the authority of God to an ancient people.

In the complementarian manifesto, the Danvers Statement, egalitarians are accused of «accepting hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuitybiblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuityBiblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.»

So Grudem claims that any selectivity whatsoever represents an arbitrary «pick - and - choose» approach to Scripture and a threat to biblical authority, and that those who support functional gender equality in the home and church are simply bending the «plain meaning of Scripture.»

(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) I chose this particular book because I think it provides the most accessible and personal introduction to the biblical and historical arguments in support of same - sex relationships, and because Matthew is a theologically conservative Christian who affirms the authority of Scripture and who is also gay.

But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

The real question is, should we, in the name of being «biblical,» hold tight to a first - century worldly understanding of male authority?

As such, it is never merely the repetition of biblical ideas alone, even for those holding to the sole and binding authority of Scripture as God's revelation.

Today's evangelicals rightly identify the loss of conviction about Biblical authority as a major source of the decline of evangelical fervor in the United Methodist Church.

If a church follows the Biblical pattern of having elders, and those elders exercise their authority as elders, then any abuse will be nipped in the bud.