Sentences with phrase «of biblical messages»

In central Europe it sometimes seems that the deepest reason for preserving and developing the theological tradition in the university has been that a profession exists whose chief function is the proclamation of the Biblical message.

This addition does, in principle, guard against a bibliocentrism that may distort our understanding of the biblical message itself.

It is related to the idea of conversion, the turning from evil to good, from self to God, which is close to the heart of the biblical message in both testaments.

Theology, if it is to explore adequately the meaning of play and its relation to the sacred, must «study the various biblical traditions and engage in the systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message for today's world.

I am convinced that this kind of obedient response to the gospel must be undergirded by a high regard for the integrity and uniqueness of the biblical message.

If the Hebrews were, in fact, a «serious people» who viewed leisure as «folly» or at best an «impromptu» respite, then the «systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message [concerning play] for today's world» would be difficult, if not impossible.

A cultural starting point might well demand a «hermeneutical suspicion» (i. e., a distrust of one's previous reading of Scripture, given the possibility that such a reading conceals some of the radical implications of the Biblical message for our day), but it may also assist in the renewed hermeneutical task, allowing the Biblical witness to be freshly experienced, freshly understood, and freshly applied.21

The overwhelming burden of the biblical message is that women are inferior to men.

Large numbers of churchmen, theologians, and laymen remained dissatisfied with the idea of repristination or of a more faithful literal reiteration of the Biblical message.

The contemporary intellectual and sociological scene compelled them to look once again at the profound insights of the Biblical message.

It is our first task to reinterpret certain texts and to teach our congregations what is the original intention of the biblical message.

If you think you're doing it because of a biblical message, all the better.

No, in the light of the biblical message transcendence must be understood primarily in a temporal sense: God before us....

What may be far more helpful is to preach from passages that are not so obvious and to show that such concerns are not an occasional tangent for both Bible and preacher, but are rather at the heart of almost all of the biblical message.

And, when seen from this perspective, it is a very important book for our total understanding of the biblical message.

Not exact matches

Is it possible that the message of comfort for those devastated by the faltering world economy will be nothing more than trite and meaningless words if not accompanied by a biblical response where we, the church, become the Good News, the economic expression of God in flesh?

The biblical prophets used some devices of dystopian writing to drive home the message that the disastrous future was already breaking into the present; but within the Covenant framework they could locate hope.

The mediaeval interpretive assumption that God's purpose is to save people out of the world so they escape and «go to heaven» is unbiblical and confuses the biblical message at every level.

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).

Apparently many theologians and biblical scholars fumble with or skirt around the truth as if the message of life were a proposition or a premise based on a certain quantity of historical information or a qualitative formula.

They assume that «biblical preaching,» in the sense of preaching the message of the Bible, must mean the use of «biblical language» and that alone.

Augustine thought he understood the biblical message, as did Luther and Calvin and Wesley; but God has finally given it to us to know that all of them are wrong and we are right.

The biblical message is that in the midst of all fearful events of our day, God is opening up a new future for us.

and a glorious example of how easy it is to contrive a message using Biblical references.

The biblical message of the kingdom is eschatological in orientation, for it proclaims God's ultimate lordship over creation, which lordship has already broken into history in the appearance of Jesus.

Among his publications are: The Scripture Principle, Harper & Row, 1984; Reason Enough: A Case for the Christian Faith, InterVarsity Press, 1980; (editor) Grace Unlimited, Bethany Fellowship, 1975; Truth on Fire, The Message of Galatians, Baker Book House, 1972, Biblical Revelation, Moody Press, 1971, Set Forth Your Case, Craig, 1968; and A Defense of Biblical Infallibility, Presbyterian and Reformed, 1967.

In the postcolonial period the Biblical message was corrupted extensively due to the strategies of decolonization of English language.

The «new world order» conspiracy theories clearly draw upon the Revelation account of the Beast; abduction - by - aliens tales evoke the rapture; and persons who report messages from aliens offer a variant of numerous biblical accounts of direct communication from God.

I agree that the lavish building in the middle of a slum is probably NOT the right message, but the issue of sacrifically tithing is Biblical no matter our income.

Other feminists, more critical of the Bible itself, have attempted to expose and analyze the patriarchal elements in the biblical text in order to show how the patriarchal values can be separated from the essentially liberating values that form its primary message.

Essentially, you have sold a sacred and Biblical message of compassion, forgiveness, and salvation in exchange for Republican political power.

Yet enough persons want to know what they can believe about the Bible and its message about God that biblical movies are often major box - office successes, and any television dramatization of biblical scenes usually secures good viewing.

Moreover, while the central biblical message of new life through Christ is expressed so fully and dearly that one who runs may read and understand (which is what Reformation theology meant by the clarity and perspicuity of Scripture), there remain many secondary matters on which certainty of interpretation is hard if not impossible to come by.

(I.v.) Demonstrations of the Bible's thematic coherence were made by various writers of the British Biblical Theology school: e.g., A. M. Hunter, The Message of the New Testament (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1944); A. G. Hebert, The Bible from Within (London: Oxford University Press, 1950); H. H. Rowley, The Unity of the Bible (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1955).

As a result, they endlessly critique the biblical texts but rarely get around to hearing scripture's critique of us or hearing its message of grace.

Only through the biblical writers» testimony do we encounter the message of God's grace; only the revelation of Jesus Christ, disclosed uniquely and irreplaceably through the testimony of the evangelists and apostles, tells us the truth about the merciful God and our relationship to that God.

Cox pointed to the significant work of hermeneutics which needed to take place in order to translate the gospel message from the biblical rural environment to an urban one.

In point of fact, almost everyone who has defined his field as biblical theology has been a Christian seeking to state and advance the Christian message and to work in the service of the Church.

Implicit here is the idea that the biblical texts have a great potential for transforming human thought and life; but this potential has been vitiated during the history of Christianity, as the biblical message has been watered down and made to conform to the pre-existing mimetic psychology of the «world.»

Yet, I believe that his was a genuine encounter with God and that his was a prophetic message, akin to that of the great Biblical prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah.

'30 That is, although specific sections of Scripture might need to be rejected, one must still take as authoritative the overall message of the Biblical text.

In the process, the authority of Scripture has been undercut, the full Biblical message being limited by some predetermined interpretive grid.

In my experience the people who most benefit from this are people with a negative experience of Christianity who find the message of grace attractive, but claim that seeing God from a perspective of grace is «not biblical».

These sorts of examples are found all over the place in the Bible, and the consistent message and expectation of biblical authors is that anyone and everyone can hear and understand the Gospel, and having heard, believe in Jesus for eternal life.

Keller ties a little bow on that section of the message saying that the doctrine of hell «can be used to create a pretext for cruelty,» but that the «biblical doctrine of hell» is that Jesus came «not to bring judgment but to bear judgment and to go to hell for his enemies.»

Christians use alot of there own feelings mixed with biblical teachings to send a bad message, just like those who picked soldiers funerals!

To summarize, to literalize the apocalyptic passages in the New Testament, is to run counter to all we know of astronomy and the world of space; they are tied in with the then - current Jewish eschatology and Persian dualism which saw evil in command of creation; as commonly accepted, they encourage passivity about the evils of the present world; they emphasize only one side of the message of Jesus to the exclusion of essential elements; they are grounded at least in part on a misconstruction of biblical poetry and drama.

Still other Christian theologians and biblical scholars maintain that faith is built not on what we know about the historical Jesus, nor on interpretations that offer the demythologized message of the New Testament texts, but on what we find in the texts themselves.

If he confirms he does not hold to a biblical view of marriage, LifeWay will no longer sell any resources by him, including The Message.»

A point on which biblical scholars are agreed is that in the preaching and teaching of the apostolic church, it was Jesus himself as Christ the Lord, the Son of God, the Savior that became the central message.