Sentences with phrase «of scriptural teaching»

However different the two ways may have become when Augustine was a bishop fighting heresies, at the period of his conversion his philosophic understanding of scriptural teaching about the divine order is far more in evidence than any appeal to faith.

To say that Christians should allow the biblical world to absorb their own world, Placher explains, is to affirm that Christians should resist viewpoints and ideologies that are incompatible with the central claims of scriptural teaching and that Christians should consider whether scriptural narrative «might be unexpectedly helpful» in understanding their own lives.

Brunner appeals explicitly to the prologue of John and to certain sayings of Paul, but surely one who is as emphatic as he in rejecting the authority of Scriptural teachings as such does not mean to say that we accept the doctrine of creation because of the presence of these passages in the New Testament.

Not exact matches

The NAE and other evangelical elites, often speaking for churches, have pivoted into a larger menu of political issues, even though lacking unequivocal scriptural and church teaching, and, no less important for Protestants, lacking consensus or even majority support from their own claimed constituencies.

For the Indian scriptural tradition, although there is no explicit literary teaching as to whether or not brahman is dynamic, there is the affirmation that it is the key to the problem of the one and the many.

The product of a church history of sex negative hysteria started by deeply disturbed early church fathers bearing little to no basis in honest scriptural teaching.

Yet you apparently won't even examine the moral / ethical implications of your beliefs, which are I might add, contrary to much scriptural teaching.

With God's eternity as the Fullness of Time, it is possible now to bring back to our awareness the scriptural teaching, ignored by traditional theology, that the whole world is going to be redeemed.

But still, aside from the hints here and there — maybe some of you know more than I, and if so, I would love to learn from you — to my knowledge, it is a Scriptural mystery what exactly we are teaching the angelic realm — what exactly the lesson is that God wants them to learn.

«You charge me with having said that our experience teaches us the truth of the scriptural saying, «There is none righteous, no not one» (Rom.

The ministry of today and tomorrow must indeed represent all the kinds of authority associated with the office in the past — institutional, teaching or Scriptural, communal and spiritual; but as institutional authority was central in the priest's office and Scriptural in the preacher's so communal authority becomes of greatest importance to the pastoral director.

These various kinds of authority — church authority as institutional and communal, Scriptural authority as teaching and judicatory, personal authority as spiritual and moral — are intricately interrelated.

Most theological authors are specialists: one interprets the scriptural foundations for preaching and teaching, another explains how to «manage» ministry, and others confine themselves to some particular subsection of parish life — liturgy, youth work, pastoral...

This latter practice followed the teaching of the Vatican II constitution Dei Verbum that the Word of God is the «soul of Sacred Theology» (DV, 24), and includes familiarising seminarians with the «four senses» method of scriptural interpretation proposed by Henri de Lubac and developed in Brussels.

By contrast, a teaching such as the Immaculate Conception, as with so much Marian dogma, makes claims that not only stand on a highly contestable reading of an extremely narrow scriptural base but also seem to stand in tension with, if not even in contradiction to, significant biblical texts.

By their interpretation of scripture, women can not be pastors, and professors who do not ascribe to scriptural inerrancy can not teach in seminaries.

In addition to that I would add that when one begins to think thoroughly about the idea that women should not teach scripture most (if not all) churches will have some sort of gaping hole that they have incorporated into their belief regarding this that has absolutely no scriptural foundation — not to mention they typically fail to confront the contradictions in scripture regarding women in leadership.

The teaching of a trinity started around 400 CE many years after the final bible writer how can one proclaim to serve God and Jesus when they believe in these non scriptural teachings?

If we have learned anything from the dispensationalists» repeated warning of an imminent return of Christ that somehow never seems to occur, it is the folly of basing Christian doctrine on current events instead of clear scriptural teaching.

But I do know that we can not ignore the evidence of our experience that interaction with the Jews has helped us to see with fresh clarity the scriptural teaching that Christians have a spiritual kinship with the Jewish people that is unlike our relation to anyone else.

Paul is not only aware of these things; he is perhaps more responsible than any other scriptural writer for teaching us these things; i.e.; what it means to be a sinner.

Clear instructions are given throughout the book enabling the reader or participant to research and cross-reference relevant scriptural texts and to consider these in light of the teaching tradition of the Church.

The community of Christians addressed by their teachers will either receive or not receive the teaching in light of their faith in Jesus Christ and of the scriptural witness to God's revelation in Christ.

I agree that pleading the blood of Jesus is not a scriptural teaching, but the shedding of His blood was essential for your salvation.

(3) Probabilism is theologically deep, going back to John and Paul's scriptural teaching that Spirit - filled persons are «taught of God,» and to Thomas Aquinas's doctrine that the primary law for the believer is the grace of the Holy Spirit poured into the heart, while all written law — including even Scripture, as well as the teachings of the popes and councils — is secondary.

N. T. Wright puts what I'm trying to say succinctly when he argues that the entire burden of the Pauline letters is to teach new Christians to «think within the biblical narrative, to see themselves as actors within the ongoing scriptural drama: to allow their erstwhile pagan thought - forms to be transformed by a biblically based renewal of the mind» (emphasis added).

R.Moloney comments thus on its origins: «While it is disputed to what extent this notion is scriptural, it is certainly patristic teaching, for instance Gregory of Nazianzen, Letter 171 (PG 37, 280).»

Most theological authors are specialists: one interprets the scriptural foundations for preaching and teaching, another explains how to «manage» ministry, and others confine themselves to some particular subsection of parish life — liturgy, youth work, pastoral care.

Thus Clement regarded the Didache or Teaching of the Apostles as scriptural; both he and Origen viewed the author of I Clement as the Clement mentioned by Paul in Philippians 4:3 and the author of the Shepherd as the Hernias of Romans 16:4.

He had an extraordinarily active and successful career, among the fruits of which were the distribution of over two million copies of the Scripture text, in different languages; the equipment of several hundred missionaries; the circulation of more than a hundred and eleven million of scriptural books, pamphlets, and tracts; the building of five large orphanages, and the keeping and educating of thousands of orphans; finally, the establishment of schools in which over a hundred and twenty - one thousand youthful and adult pupils were taught.

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