Sentences with phrase «of scriptural texts»

«This granted, and it being true that two truths can not contradict one another, it is the function of expositors to seek out the true senses of scriptural texts.

There is a sense in which the objectivity of the scriptural text in its unchanging wording can be appealed to as a corrective against the most highly fanciful flights of redefinition, but it would be part of the naivete against which the Apostle warns us if we were to take that objectivity as a guarantee.

Aside from the questionableness of this culturally based argument that two people must have a leader, Hunt fails to be convincing because she forsakes her quite adequate method of interpretation for a «literalistic» misunderstanding of the Scriptural text.

No amount of exegetical dexterity or theological acumen can give us the revelatory meaning of the scriptural text.

(6) The parabolic statement of the binding of the strong man in Mark 3:27 affords another opportunity to see Jesus Christ as the hidden and sometimes the explicit meaning of the scriptural text.

The diagram on page 64 presents the basic holism of preaching with its integration of scriptural text, preacher, and community of believers, all set in the surrounding social context.

But the significance and content of all such views will be defined completely in terms of thinking about them in the view of larger facts of Jesus Christ and the gospel — not primarily by gathering and arranging pieces of scriptural text that seem to be relevant to such topics in order to pinpoint the «biblical view» on them.»

Not exact matches

I don't want to compare my experience to that of Moses, since I was only called to open my heart, but I find the scriptural account moving in that when Moses first notices the burning bush — a moment we have come to think of as a great theophany — the impression given by the text is more humdrum.

Your simplistic calls for a proof text reveal how profoundly your lack of scriptural insight blinds you.

The truths of Genesis 6 - 8 (and especially 6:7, 13, 17; 7:23) can be understood differently when we grasp the Scriptural and cultural contexts in which these texts were written, what other Old Testament authors had to say about the flood, and also what the Apostle Peter writes about it in his second letter.

Even now... embracing scriptural infallibility is not required to do proper exegesis of the text.

For each of the five points, they provide a theological explanation for the point, and then «prove» it by citing numerous pages of Scriptural proof - texts, without ever attempting an explanation of any of those texts.

He spoke of consecration and hallowing, of a new birth of freedom and of a nation under God, but all without explicit reference to Divine agency or scriptural text.

I'll be happy to refute the orthodoxy of his scriptural proof texts if anyone is truly interested, but let's simply look at one statement.

The reflection on this scriptural self - witness and our continuing experience with the text lead to our confession of the nature of Scripture.

Sugirtharajah says, «rewriting and retranslating are not a simple dependence upon the past, but a radical remolding of the text to meet new situations and demands».48 The translators of this period seek for a wider intertextuality49 which links Biblical texts with Asian scriptural texts.

Indeed, he goes out of his way to show that, given certain assumptions about the ahistorical nature of the Bible, Darbyite premillennialism arose in a natural, even logical way from the scriptural text.

Since the Bible is written in androcentric, grammatically masculine language that can function as generic inclusive or as patriarchal exclusive language, feminist interpretation must develop a hermeneutics of critical evaluation for proclamation that is able to assess theologically whether scriptural texts function to inculcate patriarchal values, or whether they must be read against their linguistic «androcentric grain» in order to set free their liberating vision for today and for the future.

Further Voobus points out that it was neither the Greek Old Testament which became scriptural authority for Hellenistic Christianity nor the Hebrew original text which was translated into Syriac but the scriptures of the Palestinian synagogue, namely, the ancient Palestinian Targumim which came to be used among the Jewish Christians.

He has turned the «curse» in Genesis 3:16 into an eternal principle, and has centered on the role of «homemaker» in the text from Titus, to the exclusion of other Scriptural data.

Whether through an arbitrary selectivity concerning which texts are treated, or through a selectivity regarding which aspects of a text are thought relevant, or through a selectivity according to the literary genre and method of presentation, evangelicals on both sides of the controversy concerning woman's rightful role have too often truncated the Scriptural message.

I presented on the scriptural evidence regarding homosexuality, of which Dugan wrote: «There is just one catch [to Gagnon's citation of scripture texts from Jesus]: not one of the passages he quotes from actually mentions gay relationships.»

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.

In this section I intend to illustrate the christological hermeneutic by showing how it bears on scriptural exposition My aim is not to give an exegesis of the texts in question but simply to show the kind of approach I would use in discovering the meaning of Scripture.

Landry regularly raises questions about what difference the scriptural text makes to the hearers as a community and constantly envisions how the congregation can react corporately to the implications of the Word in Scripture.

Once the social constructs of the contemporary side of the model are established, then the discussion will turn to the dynamics of corporate life inherent in the scriptural text.

Another kind of community regularly comes alive in David Landry's sermons; the body of believers that either foreshadows or gives rise to the sermon's scriptural text.

The so - called scriptural basis for saying gay people aren't ok is mostly based on a very few readings taken out - of context with added interpretations that aren't in the text at all.

The book reflects a Mennonite understanding of the church as a community of reconciliation, as stressed in scriptural texts such as Matthew 18 and John 20, wherein Jesus explicitly ties God's forgiveness of people to their forgiveness of others, especially in the Lord's Prayer.

When David Landry listens in early morning solitude in the privacy of his study for the dawning of meaning from a scriptural text, he knows he is even then listening in solidarity with his congregation.

Arius followed the school of Antioch in his scriptural exegesis, which favoured a literal interpretation of the sacred text.

Modern fundamentalists have already made up their minds about the entire Bible, and when you try to explain that some of their favorite Bible - thumping passages have been ripped out of the cultural and Scriptural context in which they were written, the Fundamentalist acts as if you are the stupidest person on the earth for trying to understand a text this way.

This may move Christian worship beyond the preoccupation with Scriptural texts and literary forms of prayer to a concern with the spontaneous religious life of its daily practitioners.

In writing about the ministry of Jesus, Luke gave a focal place to scriptural texts highlighting his salvific character.

Is the proper legacy of the historical - critical method a continued concern for intentionality in biblical texts not so much in precanonical but rather in final scriptural form?

Rather than seeking to discover what the text can do for her and her wants, Evans would do well to strive to shape her life to the glory of Scriptural truth.

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.

While radical Muslim groups like ISIS use ancient religious texts to support their horrific deeds, others violate historical and scriptural witness to promote a more appealing version of Muhammad.

The other scriptural text in which Mary emerges as the Mother of the Church is the apocalyptic vision of Revelation 12.

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.

Polygamy was, in fact, one of the most sacred credos of Joseph's church — a tenet important enough to be canonized for the ages as Section 132 of The Doctrine and Covenants, one of Mormonism's primary scriptural texts.