Sentences with phrase «of biblical scholarship»

I explain that it's taught from the vantage - point of the academic discipline of biblical scholarship.

One major result of the last half - century of Biblical scholarship is ability to arrange the documents of Scripture in their approximately chronological order.

There has never been so much public interest in works of biblical scholarship.

In fact, on just such important issues the entire apparatus of biblical scholarship is of remarkably little assistance.

Two hundred years of biblical scholarship have led to a more external relation to scripture on the part of too many of us.

One of the contributions of biblical scholarship to the life of faith lies in the knowledge of ancient cultures now available to the church in new ways.

I long ago accepted atheism as my personal savior, yet half my extensive personal library is made up of Biblical scholarship and religious works.

At once it claimed the eager attention of Biblical scholarship.

But it was not enough to criticize the old mode of biblical scholarship.

This difference is so great that we need a whole new form of biblical scholarship.

Preachers and teachers particularly, but thoughtful Christians more generally, have long lamented the slide of biblical scholarship into hyperspecialized studies of ancient texts in remote contexts.

The Church's Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus by Brevard S. Childs Eerdmans, 288 pages, $ 28 paper When the history of biblical scholarship for the twentieth century is written, a prominent spot will be given to Brevard Childs.

while i certainly HEAVILY disagree with him on most other things he claims, i'd just point out to you that is the FAR EDGE of biblical scholarship on the left... and it excludes your position as too far gone.

In turning to the Bible for doctrine, therefore, we should have due regard for the findings of biblical scholarship.

Moderates, especially those on the Concordia faculty, were convinced that their use of modern methods of biblical scholarship in no way undermined their commitment to Christian faith and Lutheran orthodoxy.

Again, he is an AGNOSTIC, liberal scholar, often regarded as the far left of biblical scholarship... in other words, if you had a friend in the field, it'd be him...

878 pages, $ 42.50 Those unaware of the constantly changing state of biblical scholarship might suppose that introducing such a little book ought to be a relatively straightforward task, but there is no end to the writing of....

But the world of biblical scholarship, theology and church practice is largely acting as if no change has taken place - our understanding and explanation of the meaning of revelation and the Bible is largely fixed in the old paradigm, putting most churches as institutions out of step and out of touch with the experience and culture of emerging generations.

And what is true of Jesus scholarship, is true of biblical scholarship generally.

Therefore, as preachers try to learn from and use the growing body of biblical scholarship on rhetorical criticism, they will find it necessary both to comb the text for signs of literary - rhetorical artistry and to step back and identify their persuasive function.

Psychologists and psychoanalysts can prove abysmally ignorant of biblical scholarship; biblical scholars may dabble in psychology but fail to master the complexities of the major systems.

It has emerged in part as a way for the guild of biblical scholarship to respond to a number of stimuli: (1) the increasing charges by many theologians, lay and professional, that biblical criticism has...

It may be possible, although always with uncertainty and the need for modification, to get behind that witness; but this is much more an exercise of biblical scholarship than directly relevant to the task of the preacher — or, for that matter, the work of the Christian theologian.

The Genesis of Perfection is a striking achievement, a model of biblical scholarship that combines intellectual adventure with a loving fidelity to tradition, and effectively conveys to the reader a full measure of the pleasure that the author obviously had in writing it.

And he relies on that kind of biblical scholarship which caricatures Judaism to make Jesus look good.

I believe he would have accepted the shift of biblical scholarship with respect to Jesus» teaching.

if you'd actually give a hearing, you'd understand why the entire field of biblical scholarship (from left to right) is giving heed to this argument.

I do the best dog - and - pony show I know how to do, not only to make that point of view as clear as I can but exciting with vignettes from the history of biblical scholarship, the conflicts, and so forth.

A scholar who approached the Bible without any conviction of its existential importance might contribute to the discipline of Biblical scholarship and indirectly to theology, but he would not himself be engaged in the theological enterprise.

Methods of biblical scholarship are rapidly changing, but one can safely predict that viewing the biblical texts as literature and using the critical methods commonly applied to non-biblical literature will obtain a prominent place in academic study of the Bible.

«All of the books that they were using to help them had been printed on the Continent and most of them had been written outside the British Isles, because England was relatively speaking a bit of an intellectual backwater, especially in this field of Biblical scholarship and translation.»