(1) It «correlates a higher proportion
of the biblical material concerning Christ and of the church's witness to him».
Such a reduction
of the biblical material, however, not only unjustly belittles the legitimate achievements of science.
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.
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.
The nature
of the biblical material itself makes interpretation inescapably theological.
From Childs's perspective, the nature
of the biblical material itself makes interpretation inescapably theological.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Written on the «information is power» premise, The Smart Stepfamily weaves together a review
of biblical materials, current psychological and sociological research, best practices, practical insights, and anecdotal stories to educate and support stepfamilies and the clergy who serve them.»
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....