Sentences with phrase «of biblical criticism»

Another topic we should discuss is the meaning of biblical criticism.

Then came the revival of biblical criticism, and the modern period began.

In the nineteenth century a growing secular rationalism, such new sciences as geology and Darwinism with their implications for traditional interpretations of the Scriptures with regard to human origins, the rise of biblical criticism, and so forth, all raised fundamental challenges to accustomed ways of conceiving of Christianity and especially biblical authority.

Coupled with some of the tools of biblical criticism (such as the criteria of Embarrassment, Double Discontinuity and Multiple Attestation), he seeks to demonstrate the case for the origin of the Johannine tradition in the words and actions of the historical Jesus, as passed on by eyewitness accounts and possibly by John the son of Zebedee himself.

Churches oriented in evangelical theology were little prepared to cope with the findings of Biblical criticism and comparative religion, or to adjust their outlook to the recommendations of the social ethics professor.

Of all the commentaries which have appeared since the birth of biblical criticism, this is the weirdest.

To take one instance, there is preserved an admirable piece of biblical criticism from the middle of the third century by Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria.

For the present we note that the association of biblical criticism with the «liberal» interpretation of biblical history is accidental, and needs to be re-examined.

The foundations of biblical criticism were laid in the first four centuries of the Christian era.

Mendelssohn could not have been very much troubled by what was in his time the nascent science of biblical criticism, Gottlieb tells us repeatedly, because he simply could not «imagine that his faith tradition d [id] not cohere with his other deeply held beliefs.»

It will be useful to start with a rough outline of the chronology of the writings of the Old Testament, based upon generally accepted conclusions of biblical criticism.

Many Christians have been «shielded» from the fruits of biblical criticism.

Certainly, it is helpful to realize that Jesus did not intend his words to be taken literally, and the demythologizing insights of biblical criticism save us from an attempt to repristenate the apocalypticism of the first century in a forlorn attempt to be faithful to Jesus» words.

Within twenty years [of 1874] the threat of evolution and the kind of biblical criticism and liberal theology it and other concomitant trends were seen as empowering had reached such a pitch that a series of Bible Conferences of Conservative Protestants were held at various sites in the United States.

Do you agree that the presuppositions and goals of biblical criticism are inherently flawed and could also be used to undermine the writings of any modern author as well?

It also led to the ascendance of biblical criticism (relativizing, to a certain extent, the Holy Scriptures), which in turn had negative influences on theology, generating a questioning attitude about the objectivity of established truth and the usefulness of defending ecclesial traditions and institutions.

Conservative evangelicals may remain suspicious of some of the styles of biblical criticism that inform the approach to scripture of old - line Christians.

He seeks therefore to discern the shape of a new biblical theology which will link a concern for the Bible's theological dimension and a healthy respect for the importance of biblical criticism.

Modem forms of biblical criticism, for example, are probably more clearly rooted in this development.

By means of a biblical criticism «free from compromise» (The phrase of H. Ott, «Entmythologisierung» Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart II [ed.

For a helpful review of the communal character of different schools of biblical criticism, see John Barton, Reading the Old Testament (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1984).

Not only should we not delete the Old Testament, we should not use the tools of biblical criticism to delete any passage in either Testament that does not suit our argument.

All three forms of alleged certainty have been considerably weakened by the modern human sciences — the certainty of the institution by historical scholarship and the social sciences, the certainty of the text by the findings of biblical criticism, and the certainty of inner experience by psychology and the sociology of knowledge.

And perhaps most significantly we should notice that some would trace the emergence of early forms of biblical criticism to Pietism and its attack on the abstract doctrinal character of orthodoxy.

Social - Scientific Criticism: Another form of biblical criticism that has arisen in recent years applies insights and methods from the fields of sociology, anthropology and ethnography to describe aspects of ancient social life manifested in the biblical texts and to reconstruct the social worlds behind the texts.

Restrained forms of biblical criticism have found acceptance among Holiness scholars — so much so that many do not find themselves at home in the Evangelical Theological Society.

For instance, his treatment of the early Pentecostals» view of Scripture follows the standard interpretation according to which the movement's adherents were biblical literalists who had little use for allegory or forms of biblical criticism.