Sentences with phrase «of biblical materials»

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Is there a flaw here in one's use of Scripture or is it in the nature of Biblical materials that singleness of theme can be achieved only by their violation?

Such a principle of historical thinking has led to significant reinterpretation of biblical materials, including the miracle traditions about Jesus, the resurrection, and the ascription of titles of divinity to Jesus.

Recent expansions of curricular materials, in addition to the sexuality unit, have moved into situational ethics, cultural anthropology, and a very open exploration of biblical materials and works of religious experiences.

At all periods of Biblical history and in diverse strata of the Biblical materials we find the affirmation that what characterizes Yahweh in disfunction from the objects of men's worship which are mere vanity is his ability to hear the cry of the oppressed and to save him from his oppressor.

Broadly speaking, it is probably true to say that the Church was more concerned to communicate the schema to the laity than the Bible itself; but in doing so it ensured that whatever of the biblical material became available, either by direct reading, or through liturgy and offices, through sermons, hymns or pictures, was seen in a well - defined perspective.

The richness and diversity of the biblical material represent an invaluable resource, and for the church to recognize and appropriate these scriptural insights is to begin the renewal of our theological perspective.

Young evangelicals have been overwhelmed to discover the extent of biblical material related to themes of social justice — material largely ignored in the theology and writings of their elders.

My constant purpose was and is to adumbrate on every subject I handle a genuinely canonical interpretation of Scripture - a view that in its coherence embraces and expresses the thrust of all the biblical passages and units of thought that bear on my theme - a total, integrated view built out of biblical material in such a way that, if the writers of the various books knew what I had made of what they taught, they would nod their heads and say that I had got them right.

From Childs's perspective, the nature of the biblical material itself makes interpretation inescapably theological.

The nature of the biblical material itself makes interpretation inescapably theological.

More especially, it has to do with the enterprise known as «de-mythologization», in relation to what the father of that enterprise calls existenzialinterpretation of the biblical material and most importantly of the material that has to do with the kerygma or the Christian gospel to which faith is a response.

After many years of historical criticism, in which the interest was in dating the various pieces of biblical material, there came literary criticism, in order to establish the relationship between these pieces — in the New Testament especially with respect to the four gospels.

Such a reduction of the biblical material, however, not only unjustly belittles the legitimate achievements of science.

(1) It «correlates a higher proportion of the biblical material concerning Christ and of the church's witness to him».

Not exact matches

In modern societies, Weber argued, the biblical God must compete with worldly gods such as aesthetic experience, material success, nationalistic fervor, erotic pleasure, and the many other forms of self - transcendence and this - worldly immortality that call out to our inner demons.

To rush biblical statements into this arena, as though they were of the same order as Charles Darwin's Origin of Species or Stephen Jay Gould's The Panda's Thumb, or as though scientific conclusions could be drawn from them, is to be very confused about what it is the Genesis materials are teaching.

And in a way meditation on biblical material is just that: after all the other «senses» have been exhausted, there is the imaginative approach that will make it possible for the reader to grasp the big meaning of what he is reading.

«It is free theology in the sense that it can make use of any of these materials — confessional, metaphysical, biblical, religious, and secular — without being bound to them» (Scharlemann, 82 - 83).

Supplication for material benefits was the primitive beginning of prayer, and the development of Biblical thought in this regard is measured by the distance between two typical intercessions:

Much emphasis was placed on the importance of building a strong foundation, which usually involved employing materials like the «concrete» of absolute truth, the «joists» of biblical inerrancy, and the «bearing walls» of Christian doctrine.

'» (90) The prevailing attitude, he shows, is heavily influenced by the Platonic concept of an evil material world and a perfect immaterial soul, as well as a misunderstanding of Scripture in which heaven, (as a kind of final resting place for the soul), is emphasized over the clear biblical picture of a new heaven and new earth for which believers will be physically resurrected.

Granted I'm no biblical scholar but if I remember correctly there were several passages about the love of material possessions being incompatible with love of God.

Frei believed that those who develop theology that way, beginning with existential questions arising out of the human situation, will start reading the biblical stories as either historical raw material or timeless truths and moral lessons.

The minister's technical means may include the biblical languages, knowledge of how to counsel, and a grasp of group leadership or curriculum materials.

This material raises many interpretative difficulties, which makes this an excellent case study of what seeking a canonical interpretation of biblical testimony on any subject involves.

Any adequate hermeneutical hypothesis on this or any topic, therefore, will have to show the internal harmony of all relevant biblical material.

In emphasizing mastery of facts and ideas, I am not advocating a return to the sterile procedures of rote memorization of extensive creedal or biblical material.

Each has been something of an experiment to see how the biblical material might be read afresh from a canonical perspective, even though Childs himself would eschew the term «experimentation.»

His use of Biblical and traditional materials was more acceptable.

The movie's so - called sex scenes are throwaways, and, ironically, it presents biblical material with the literal - mindedness of a fundamentalist preacher from Oklahoma.

In fact, the several biblical documents are a treasury of materials for scholars in various fields of study.

The second point to make... turns on the theological role of the editors in shaping the biblical material to render it in light of the larger literary collection.

I now turn to a reconception of human destiny, such as may be suggested in the process conceptuality but which will be as loyal as possible to the general view of things that biblical material provides.

In each case, Childs's point is that in the biblical text one can see the canonical interpreters themselves reworking older material in order to make fresh, normative theological claims that move decisively beyond the locus of the early text.

We are not, of course, going to examine in detail what is still called biblical theophany; that is, a visible, material appearance of the biblical God.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

You might be interested in this online commentary «Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job» (http://www.bookofjob.org) as supplementary or background material for your study of the Book of Job.

It is Catholic and also biblical doctrine that we can not only evolve formal principles of subjective freedom regarding right and wrong, but also material, objectively and universally valid norms for exercising subjective freedom in the categorial material of man and his world.

The few biblical ideas which may have circulated among the common people were so vague and often contradictory that they can not be the basis for the precision, extensiveness, unity, and vigor of the material in the Qur» an.

None of the practices we discuss can be done faithfully without constant prayer and Bible study and we weave biblical material and links to prayer and worship into our treatment of every practice.

Barth did not deny that there are myths and even outright fairy tales in the materials out of which some of the biblical narratives were constructed.

Those who voice this charge look upon the traditional procedure of stating the thesis and dividing it into points as straightforward, «coming right out with it», while induction is sneaking up on the congregation and slipping in your biblical material when they are not looking.

Niebuhr introduces his own constructive discussion with several statements which are not only a correct report of the biblical - theological situation in our time, but also provide material for our effort to say something useful about the theme of this lecture: what are the requirements for preaching which are suggested by this search for a proper theological method?

If we tried to use it as such a vehicle would not the Biblical material burst through the very form of the modern mythology?

At any rate it should by now be obvious that this norm is both formal and material, and that it is central to the Biblical witness to the reality of» God as well as to the uses of tradition in the Bible.

It is clear that the biblical writers rejected material representations of God, called idols.

The question is whether they thought as highly of this other material as they did of the biblical literature.

God, as chief causative principle and as supreme affect, is «in this world or he is nowhere»; biblical material, and in relation to it Christian liturgical and hymnological imagery, with the theological articulation of this, intend to make affirmations which are to be found in the pictures and forms and myths — and these we must seek to make meaningful and valid for ourselves in our present existence; man is an «embodied» and a social occasion or series (or «routing») of occasions, organic to the world of nature, and can only truly live as he lives in due recognition of these facts and sees them as integral to himself.

faithlessinfatima said, on April 22nd, 2009 at 9:02 pm That's cute Fishon, but you'll never really know if those you call «critics» have something to important to add to the world of biblical studies unless you read and investigate their material, that is, get in the car and drive it and try to get a feel for what the other guys are saying....