Sentences with phrase «of biblical exegesis»

Equally puzzling is the inclusion of Edmund Leach's essay «Fishing for Men on the Edge of the Wilderness,» which has little to recommend it but the author's eminence as perhaps the world's leading structural anthropologist — who here wishes to demonstrate that structuralism enables a style of biblical exegesis not unlike «the typological style of argument employed by the majority of early Christian writers.»

Such scholarly journals as the Restoration Quarterly are publishing a number of articles whose historical and theological concerns extend far beyond the old rubrics of biblical exegesis and the history of the restoration movement.

Discussions with British evangelicals after the appearance of the SCM edition last summer convinced me that the British evangelical scene is more uniform and more defined by the Inter-Varsity experience and its tradition of biblical exegesis.

The Historical - Critical method of biblical exegesis has dominated scripture study for more than a hundred years.

One figure who has consistently called for a re-evaluation, purification and augmentation of the prevalent method of biblical exegesis is Joseph Ratzinger.

One of the objections was that Yoder's position reflected a pre-Bultmannian view of biblical exegesis.

That's a lot of biblical exegesis to defend a Bible you don't have a lot of faith in.

Until that late period in my theological studies I had been unable to make much sense of biblical exegesis.

Knust shows absolutely no awareness of Biblical exegesis, hermeneutics, genre, social and historical context, or even a rudimentary understanding of what's prescriptive or descriptive text in some of the historical Biblical narratives.

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This is theological exegesis at its finest: informed by historical - critical scholarship, but going far beyond the biblical dissecting room to show how the experience of the Risen Christ both formed the Church and impelled it into mission.

Forms of exegesis or biblical interpretation that do not support the homiletic, evangelical, and educational missions of the Church may have their place in the academy, but they are subsets of religious studies, not theology.

The church should never be guilty of using poor biblical exegesis or theology to oppose or condone a specific act.

And all of these others have also based their views on careful exegesis of the biblical text, in its grammatical, cultural, historical contexts.

In the biblical exegesis of the early Church the method had a real value.

Traditionally the term was used primarily for exegesis of the Bible; however, in contemporary usage it has broadened to mean a critical explanation of any text, and the term «Biblical exegesis» is used for greater specificity.

But in the meantime, Dan put his own frustration to work and created this handy «Year of Biblical Womanhood Genre Cheat Sheet» for those who may be confused by literary genres and do not know the difference between, say, satire and biblical eBiblical Womanhood Genre Cheat Sheet» for those who may be confused by literary genres and do not know the difference between, say, satire and biblical ebiblical exegesis.

Other projects include an exploration of motherhood in messianic genealogies in «Mother Knows Best: Messianic Surrogacy and Sexploitation in Ruth» in Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and their Children (Brill), and a commentary on Ruth and article on «Responsible Christian exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures» in the African diasporic biblical commentary The Africana Bible (FoBiblical Mothers and their Children (Brill), and a commentary on Ruth and article on «Responsible Christian exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures» in the African diasporic biblical commentary The Africana Bible (Fobiblical commentary The Africana Bible (Fortress).

1.1 have also been impressed by the excellent sets of questions focusing social aspects of biblical preaching listed by Forbes, «Social Transformation,» 51, and Ronald J. Allen, «Sociological Exegesis: Text and Social Reality,» Contemporary Biblical Interpretation for Preaching (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1984), biblical preaching listed by Forbes, «Social Transformation,» 51, and Ronald J. Allen, «Sociological Exegesis: Text and Social Reality,» Contemporary Biblical Interpretation for Preaching (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1984), Biblical Interpretation for Preaching (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1984), 91 - 93.

You claim that I my view about sexual relationships is «based upon a gross perversion of honest biblical exegesis.»

With the emergence of historical criticism as the dominant form of biblical interpretation, allegory was discredited as a feckless style of medieval exegesis that twisted the words and phrases of Scripture into arbitrary symbols of hidden truths.

They neither have a real knowledge of Jewish history or of Jewish - Christian history, nor do they possess a good handle on biblical exegesis....

To be sure, McCabe wanted to minimize the element of constraint as much as possible, but he felt obliged by his commitment to a literalistic exegesis of biblical prophecy and by a desire to preserve as much of the divine omnipotence as possible to admit that some choices are forced upon persons.

When one has given serious consideration to Buber's Biblical exegesis, one is no longer tempted to fall into the easy assumption that Buber has read his dialogical philosophy into his interpretation of Biblical Judaism.

It's amazing that a «religion scholar» who writes books about God exhibits such poor exegesis of basic biblical texts.

Instructions and study were saturated with the Antiochean biblical exegesis and theology especially those of Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore

This is a complex and not easily definable issue and anyone with «easy» answers in my view is not admitting the fallen and terrible condition of mankind in general and that as much as we would attempt to make categorical statements as to «all war is wrong» or «war is the right soultion» we are making statements that just cant stand up to either biblical exegesis or the reality of the world we live in.

Within the frame work of the general biblical knowledge, students were given systematic training in the exegesis of the biblical passages after the manner of «the Great Interpreter», Theodore of Mopsuestia, whose sober, literal textual interpretations were always the Nestorian model.

What is basic to both Mollenkott's and Jewett's positions is too facile an exegesis of key Biblical passages.

Critical historical exegesis during the past hundred years has undoubtedly aided unprecedented advancements in our biblical knowledge: in the better understanding of literary genres, source history and textual composition; in etymology and archaeology; in the penetration of ancient languages and cultural settings.

[9] Ratzinger, J. On the Question of the Foundations and approaches of Exegesis Today, in Biblical Interpretation in Crisis: The Rat ^ tnger Conference on the Bible and the Church, ed.

[5] Ratzinger, J. On the Question of the Foundations and Approaches of Exegesis Today, in Biblical Interpretation in Crisis: The Ratyinger Conference on the Bible and the Church, ed.

Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example of eisegesis (reading «into» the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (reading «out of» Scripture with attentiveness to historical and literary context, even if it conflicts with one's own personal views).

Within the Church, «scientific» exegesis has often been regarded as the gold standard of serious biblical scholarship, and modern Christians are often as contemptuous of premodern allegory, figural exegesis, and typology as your neighborhood philosophe.

In the third part we will have recourse to the exegesis of testimony in the biblical prophets and in the New Testament.

The concept of testimony such as is drawn out by biblical exegesis, is hermeneutical in a double sense.

The Church needs to stand by the biblical text and the clear exegesis that outlines a persons rejection of grace by their abuse of it.

His Israel of God in Prophecy and Chariots of Salvation are two books that stick particularly to the Bible In both books he remains true to an exegesis that is rooted in the OT and NT Scriptures making it possible for the Christian to understand what has otherwise been an eschatological landscape filled with clouds of personal prognostications that masquerade as Biblical.

The primary focus and function of Justin's book is his personal journey, not detailed biblical exegesis, so his analysis here is brief but dense.

Dale Vree came back in the New Oxford Review with an article titled «If Everyone Is Saved...,» defending Regis Scanlon and rejecting Neuhaus» exegesis of the biblical texts he had quoted.

The preacher who is doing his reading these days has been encouraged by the fact that there are a number of recent attempts «to find a new way through from exegesis to the sermon».1 That these efforts among biblical scholars, systematic theologians, and practical theologians are taking place has several clear implications.

An ancient rabbinic method of exegesis called midrash, which sought out and inevitably found the solution to problems perceived in the biblical text, resulted in the creation of an abundant mythology that eventually took on a life of its own.

An interview with Catholic Islamologist Michel Cuypers earlier this year with Il Regno, has highlighted this and that today a growing number of Islamic scholars are calling for modern Biblical - like exegesis.

In a well - crafted introductory essay, Selderhuis places Reformation exegesis of the Psalms within the wider context of biblical interpretation.

In his exegesis of certain biblical texts, notably Psalm 110:1 and Isaiah 53:1, Tertullian observed: «So in these texts the distinctness of the three is plainly set out, for there is the Spirit who makes the statement, the Father to whom he addresses it, and the Son who is the subject of it.»

Some of Spurgeon's exegesis will not please modern biblical scholars, for he often sounds more like Athanasius or Bernard of Clairvaux (especially on the Song of Songs) than he does Benjamin Jowett or David Friedrich Strauss.

But the work is filled with theological reflection and exegesis of biblical texts (Ex.

The accordance of doctrine and Scripture motivates the project of theological exegesis and not only raises difficult and puzzling questions but also provides resources for genuinely biblical answers.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

The foundations of Hebrew philology and biblical exegesis were laid by Jewish scholars in the early Middle Ages, and carried forward by Christian scholars from the Renaissance to the present.

It is masterful biblical exegesis which knocks silly any idea that Paul had a «low» view of the human body — a misconception Christians today desperately need to let go of.