Sentences with phrase «own biblicism»

Typically, evangelicalism focuses on Biblicism and salvation as two of its major foundations and regards these as cutting across denominational boundaries, pointing to a deeper unity.

The LCMS has a long history of flirting with neo-fundamentalism, and its narrow biblicism puts it in perpetual danger of absorption into the evangelical Protestant world.

First, I claim that biblicism, which I define clearly, is widespread in American Evangelicalism.

Amazing for anyone to accuse an experiment examining rival biblicisms of a failure to recognize hermeneutical complexity @rachelheldevans

The new biblicism shows itself at both a theoretical and a practical level.

Biblicism is a particular theory about how the Bible ought to function as an authority in Christian life....

That is to say, the Christian gospel, the kerygma or proclamation, indeed remains and must remain fixed as the message of the Church, the heart of its life and the meaning of its existence; but at the same time we must find ways in which we can both understand and declare that kerygma which will not smother it in an unimaginative biblicism, but which will be appropriate for our own day.

His biblicism comes from immersion in the Bible and testing everything in terms of the conviction that God is love and of the love commandment.

We looked at some of the problems with Biblicism here, here, and here.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

The current evangelical biblicism turns a few scattered condemnations of certain homosexual practices in the ancient world into a law against all forms of homosexual activity today.

Then we discussed Smith's case for a Christocentric hermeneutic as an alternative to Biblicism.

In Part 1, Smith spends four chapters talking about the problems of «biblicism.»

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.»

Christian Smith shows convincingly that the goals and claims of biblicism have not worked, and so it is an impossible way of viewing and reading Scripture.

Biblicism consists of the constellation of beliefs and practices surrounding the way most Christians in the United States view and use the Bible.

Too often, however, this appeal is mere biblicism.

I had found that evangelical biblicism made no sense of this topic.

(See The Problem with Biblicism, God Hates Cretans?

Given the fundamentalist personal background of many young evangelical writers, this unconscious hangover of biblicism is not too surprising.

This was not, as we shall see on further analysis of the image, a naive biblicism that equated God's Word with the literal words of the Bible.

It is this Old Testament - oriented biblicism that accounts for the evangelical's attitude toward the Jews

As I noted last month, biblicism is a core characteristic of evangelicalism.

His survey's central theme is the relationship between the ideals of Christendom — an organic unity of government, church, and society — and of «biblicism,» a term he uses to convey the commitment to follow «the Bible alone» in structuring all aspects of life and faith.

Not understanding the necessary interworking of traditional, Biblical, and contemporary sources (even in a theology that seeks Biblical authority as its ultimate norm), certain evangelicals have fallen prey to a new form of «traditionalism»; others have retreated to a «Biblicism»; still others have found themselves in theological bondage to contemporary standards.

They use David Bebbington's scheme of marks that identify evangelicalism: conversionism (an emphasis on the new birth as a life - changing experience), biblicism (reliance on the Bible as ultimate authority), activism (a commitment to evangelizing), and crucicentrism (a focus on Christ's redeeming work on the cross, usually pictured as the only way of salvation).

The Bible of the revivals ultimately undermined Christendom and fueled a new biblicism.

Protestant biblicism found its strength in protest.

He claims that the Revolution led to an upsurge of biblicism, but explains that only in the case of debates over colonial bishops and slavery did colonists actually draw directly upon the teaching authority of Scripture.

Biblicism had a different history in America.

A sterilizing «formalism» is one present danger; a defensive «Biblicism» is a second.

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.

Unlike Europe's, America's move away from biblicism was gradual, evolutionary, and incomplete.

However, Noll notes, this was not the biblicism of the Puritan experiment.

It is a primal Reformation principle that our faith is evangelical, linked to the good news and not to biblicism.

Biblicism falls apart, Smith says because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism.»

«The «biblicism» that pervades much of American evangelicalism is untenable and needs to be abandoned in favor of a better approach to Christian truth and authority,» he concludes.

by David Bebbington): conversionism, or an emphasis on the «new birth» as a life - changing religious experience; biblicism, a reliance on the Bible as ultimate religious authority; activism, a concern for sharing the faith; and crucicen - trism, an emphasis on Christ's atoning work on the cross.

The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith Brazos, 234 pages, $ 22.99 How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety - Five Difficult Steps by Christian Smith Cascade, 205 pages, $ 24 Most of the time, Christian....

But after years of work on the poetic, metaphorical nature of religious language (and hence its relative, constructive and necessarily changing character), and in view of feminism's critique of the hierarchical, dualistic nature of the language of the Jewish and Christian traditions, my bonds to biblicism and the Barthian God loosened.

Another risk is biblicism, a kind of absolutization of the authority of the Bible that leads to irrational beliefs and actions.

The hard - liners of both Roman Catholicism and Protestant biblicism believe that ethical rules can be deduced logically from divinely revealed truths.

But even if this is not the case, we could still argue that «biblicism» results....

This kind of Biblicism involves theological education as well as the churches in inner contradictions.

Yet as in the case of Biblicism it is hardly necessary to await the outcome of many inquiries before concluding that substantial error involving many further confusions is present when the proposition that Jesus Christ is God is converted into the proposition that God is Jesus Christ.

Denominationalism not the denominations; ecclesiasticism not the churches; Biblicism not the Bible; Christism not Jesus Christ; these represent the chief present perversions and confusions in Church and theology.

But there is a Biblicism that is not theological because it does not make God so much as Scriptures the object of its interest, and which depends for law and grace not on Father, Son and Holy Spirit but on Bible.

Postliberalism, with its emphasis on culture and language, narrative and community, character and virtue, opened possibilities for being theologically serious and doctrinally orthodox while avoiding the restrictive biblicism of the evangelical world.

This keeps us from biblicism and the legalism and self - righteousness that invaribaly follows.

In this way, the council avoids any narrow biblicism that would tend to derive all important truths for our lives from the pages of Scripture alone.