Sentences with phrase «psychological interpretation»

A person could well reject a particular psychological interpretation of some biblical text not so much in theory but because the model chosen is felt to be unacceptable.

At its best, however, current psychological interpretation of the biblical text remains free from this danger.

PeterS There is a very big question as to where you insert psychological interpretation in a discussion.

The number of arbitrary psychological interpretations at the same time from the basis of important structures of thought; and how often do people think that the task of criticism has already been discharged by palying tuneful psychological variations on the given factual theme!»

Here psychological interpretation must go deeper, for it is precisely this which is the difficulty of the knowledge to which the chosen one is called: that before its gaze all the glitter and glory of the world became nothing.

Sometimes often referred to as just the inkblot test, it has been described in Wikipedia as a «psychological test in which subjects» perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.»

Yet I wonder if Schuller's theological - psychological interpretation of success and failure does not risk a kind of «justification through works.»

Psychological interpretations of the text foster our awareness of just what is going on in God's transforming activity with his people.

The psychological interpretation of the biblical text can best be seen as a handmaiden to a better understanding of God's acts of salvation: the servant of, not the substitute for, theology.

Now Childs may be correct about misinformed sociological and psychological interpretation, and I make no defense of the cases he cites.

This is the task of psychological interpretation.

He organizes these questions using a version of Schleiermacher's threefold curricular structure, dividing this structure into what he calls three «fields»: historical studies (including study of the Bible), interpretation of Christianity (including theological, sociological, and psychological interpretations), and «the work of Christianity in the present» (122).

For this reason I think we must supplement the psychological interpretation of symbolism with an interpretation that begins from the cosmos of which all acts of consciousness are a part.

Logically speaking the psychological interpretation of symbols says nothing about their revelatory status.

However, it is possible in principle that the psychological interpretation of religious images and symbols as originating in human desiring in no way rules out some correspondence of the symbols with a «mysterious» and ultimate dimension of reality.

I have myself entertained this view, but further reflection upon the biblical and ecclesiastical traditions, upon philosophical and psychological interpretations, and upon my own experience and that of others to whom I am related as pastor or friend has led me to believe that this «emancipated» view is naïve at best and is even potentially damaging to any moral sensitivity at all.

His deceptively simple oeuvre lends itself to psychological interpretation, whilst remaining firmly objective due to its relationship to the minimal.

«In keeping with broader intellectual currents of the time,» he wrote, «attention to Pollock's work shifted from a psychological interpretation in the 1950s, to a structural reading around 1960, to an emphasis on material and process around 1970.»