Sentences with phrase «of biblicist»

Insistence on literal inerrancy, whatever its uses in arresting doctrinal laxity, leaves the LCMS vulnerable to charges of biblicist obscurantism.

Not exact matches

Though the Puritans believed in the primacy of Scripture, they were not narrow biblicists and drew widely on early Christian writings in polemical, homiletical, and exegetical works.

Gerald McDermott's description of evangelicalism as divided between «Traditionists» and «Meliorists» would be improved by recognition of the huge divide between so - called «Biblicist» and «paleo - orthodox» versions of «Traditionism.»

Biblicists will no doubt reject this approach as being wishy - washy and insufficiently prophetic, just as some activists have criticized Riverside Church's proposed «center for health of the city,» a think tank on urban problems.

Biblicism falls apart, Smith says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned readers — including many evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it, says and teaches very different things about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»

Ironically, while Biblicists claim to take the Bible with utmost seriousness for what it obviously teaches, their theory about the Bible drives them to try to make it something it evidently is not... Regardless of the actual Bible that God has given his church, biblicists want a Bible that is Biblicists claim to take the Bible with utmost seriousness for what it obviously teaches, their theory about the Bible drives them to try to make it something it evidently is not... Regardless of the actual Bible that God has given his church, biblicists want a Bible that is biblicists want a Bible that is different.

One of the strangest things about the Biblicist mentality is its evident refusal to take the Bible at face value.

My liberal colleagues were even less interested in puzzling out the continuity of truth in classical doctrine than were hard - nosed biblicists.

And it happened further that the representatives of the other theological schools and tendencies in Germany — Liberal, Pietist, Confessional, Biblicist — who had previously.

Grasping the full implications of his argument may be hard not only for strict biblicists but also for those who take the Bible seriously and study it critically.

For this reason they have retrenched into what Berkouwer calls «a biblicist misinterpretation of the church's dealings with Scripture and its confession 6 Interpretations have seemed to lead in questionable directions — directions which either have moved away from traditional Biblical consensus or have disputed current cultural analysis.

The Reformers spoke in biblicist terms when trying to rid Christendom of what they identified as Catholic errors, but biblicism became a less functional standard once Protestants began to disagree among themselves about the meaning of the Bible.

For instance, when was the U.S. more Protestant, or biblicist, or evangelical than around 1861 - 1865, the time of the Civil War?

If Biblicism worked the way its proponents say it should, he argues, there would not be the vast variety of interpretive differences that Biblicists themselves reach when they actually interpret and apply the Bible.

Encyclopedia articles about Calvin feature a fairly predictable cluster of terms still associated with his name: strict, moralistic, legalistic, authoritarian, rigorous, rigid, severe, cold, logical, systematic, biblicist, theocratic, dictatorial and austere.

It is only very recently that conservative Biblicists have openly expressed regret for their long support of racist policies and practices.

The linguistic and biblicist vetos have been seen to be both arbitrary and unwarranted — which makes it all the more pathetic that Dr Paul van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel still seems to accept them as valid and to rule out «God - statements» as «meaningless» while at the same time his excessive Barthian christocentrism and bibliocentrism turns the patent intention of scriptural statement into a parody of their proper meaning.

He also thinks Barth is too much of a «biblicist,» which I take to mean that despite Barth's often fascinating and imaginative exegesis there are some issues that require much more of a theologian than exegesis alone.

Even the angular - minded New England Puritan Biblicist recognized that «it is the way of Christ in the Gospel to set up the practice of his Institutions as the necessities of the people call for them.»