Sentences with phrase «of biblical anthropology»

No philosophical description of human beings, resting as it does on what can be seen and measured, can reach the profundity of biblical anthropology, which rests upon invisible relationships.

To understand Paul's point in Romans 7, it is important to delve briefly into the realm of biblical anthropology, where we learn that man consists of three parts: body, soul, and spirit.

Not only do my own private experiences of the bible's truth claims give me good reason to believe it's assessment, but the success and consistency of biblical anthropology in other quarters (not least literature and philosophy) means that I have absolutely no reason to be ashamed.

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However, he is only able to formulate a biblical theology by a process of transforming the cosmic and transcendent dimensions of the New Testament message into an existential anthropology (supposedly borrowed from Heidegger's Sein und Zeit, but Bultmann's categories are almost a parody of Heidegger's).

To speak specifically on this point, the fact that form and relationship have been restored to the current image of man, both in the new metaphysics and in the sciences of man, enables us to be more understanding in our anthropology of what is being conveyed in such historically biblical notions as the Covenant and the Imago Dei.

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.

If the problem now envisaged were to be expressed by a formal comparison,, it might be said that the beginning of mankind according to scientific anthropology is a beginning in indigence and vacuity as the lowest point of a rising curve, whereas the biblical and ecclesiastical curve has a beginning in plenitude and the line of «development» descends from it.

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

Do the findings of molecular biologists threaten to replace biblical anthropology with the idea that human behavior is entirely genetically determined?

My interests (and blogging habits) trend toward the practical aspects of a much more embodied anthropology than is generally acceptable, a hermeneutic that takes its cue from the biblical authors themselves, and the continuing reformation of evangelical ecclesiology.

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact Exodus problems noted, Chronological and Archaeological in establishing the date and route of the biblical Exodusl