Sentences with phrase «reading of scripture in»

This new critical awareness of society on the part of oppressed peoples previously restricted to the status of victims brings them to a fresh reading of scripture in which the word of God is heard speaking clearly to their situation of structural oppression, and they are moved to deep reflection (theology) directed to a new praxis of social transformation.

This book presented a non-violent reading of Scripture in light of Girard's mimetic theory, but more than anything, this book was a defense of how the Catholic Mass could still be practiced and not be viewed as a perpetual sacrifice.

Sadly, this is the way most people feel about the reading of scripture in worship.

According to Enns, the only way we can begin to understand why New Testament writers handled scripture this way is to understand the hermeneutical conventions of their time, which are rooted in the literary conventions of the Second Temple period, and to appreciate the degree to which the apostolic writers positioned their reading of Scripture in light of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

The profound concordance of the four senses guarantees all its richness to the living reading of Scripture in the Church» (par.

The reading of Scripture in this way will require a response of the whole person as well as of the whole community.

A great deal of the strength of the evangelical Christian's life was derived from a meditative reading of Scripture in this way.

Second, we also have to consciously locate our reading of Scripture in the context of our faith community, submitting whatever the Bible would say to me as an individual or my personal experiences to the more primary setting of God speaking to the community.

Scripture does do something to us in worship, which is why it is a scandal that Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and other traditions have more public reading of Scripture in their services than we Bible - oriented evangelical Protestants.

Not exact matches

it makes sense, read your bible... but this time, try starting at the beginning and finish at the end instead of jumping thru the birth of jesus — he isn't special enough to believe in the god you claim yet not read the part that came before the man as he himself tells you to know the scripture!!!

I still have many scriptures that I can't read because of the way they have been used in the past.

Semitic languages are so rich with layers of metaphor and allusion that we can't possibly understand their picture of God by reading the scriptures in English.

It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.

I just think some Christians are lazy and don't want to read more about the totality of scripture and delve deeper into interpretation... we prefer a grade 3 reading and comprehension level in many aspects of Christianity.

By the evidence of the scripture (if you were to actually study it instead of making broad assumptions about it based on what you read somewhere else) God set this earth in motion.

Angela Shupe writes a column for RELEVANT about reading Scripture and finding our self - esteem in who God wants us to be instead of who society says we ought to be.

As both Kugel and Reno document in detail, Jesus and Paul read their Scriptures with a great deal of interpretative freedom.

At the same time, we insist that all Christians should have open access to the Bible, and should be encouraged to read and study the Scriptures, for in them all that is necessary for salvation is set forth so clearly that the simplest believer, no less than the wisest theologian, may arrive at a sufficient understanding of them.

In «With Her» Milosz speaks of hearing a passage from Scripture during Mass at St. Mary Magdalen in Berkeley: «A reading this Sunday from the Book of Wisdom / About how God has not made death / And does not rejoice in the annihilation of the living.&raquIn «With Her» Milosz speaks of hearing a passage from Scripture during Mass at St. Mary Magdalen in Berkeley: «A reading this Sunday from the Book of Wisdom / About how God has not made death / And does not rejoice in the annihilation of the living.&raquin Berkeley: «A reading this Sunday from the Book of Wisdom / About how God has not made death / And does not rejoice in the annihilation of the living.&raquin the annihilation of the living.»

Given all this, Kugel, if I read him correctly, opts for treating the Scriptures as the starting point for a continuous process of interpretation and reinterpretation rather than as statements that are true in themselves in any obvious sense.

Now here is the difference, Judas planned all this ahead, Peter did not (read the Scriptures) and we can tell he repented later in the book of Acts, when he was filled with the Holy Spirit, he became a more solid, mature man of God that produced the fruits of the Spirit.

Replace them with the promises of God instead by returning to Scripture to read what God has to say about your future and your security in Him.

To all of you quoting scripture, your not supposed to read a sentence in the bible and look for meaning to understand it's meaning you need the context which is the entire bible.

If you want to say that two men or two women is an abomination then you might want to read some more of that scripture and you would find puting two seeds in the same hole, working on sundays, wearing cloths with more than one color and lots of other dumb things are mentioned in a list why do you all foucus on just one part of that list it has lots of abominations that we all do every day

After his conversion through prayer and the reading of Scripture, he aimed his quill at the foundations of modern philosophy and became, in many senses, the Johann Sebastian Bach of philosophy: «a true pan of harmony and discord, light and darkness, spiritualism and materialism» (as Schelling so perceptively called him).

Until you can read all of the Old Testament in Hebrew and New Testament in Greek you have no authority to tell anyone what is or is not twisted scripture.

Our good Lord is indeed compassionate but he is no socialist and in my reading of the scripture he disdains it.

You don't necessarily have to belong to a church in order to get something out of reading a scripture.

Secondly, as a priest ordained in Rome where he knows that the Basilica would be totally against his assertion, he uses euphemisms to cloud the mind of a reader thinking quoting wrong scriptures with the intent to seduce would suffice — his own roots denounce his deeds and / or beliefs but he axiomatically wants to hold both the roots and wings to no avail, read the book and the truth shall set you free... This is exactly what happens when a gay priest turned professor what to justify his perverted lifestyle... I rest my case

When we see things not as we read in the word of God, we are to approach leadership, and show them Matthew 18:15 - 17 or whatever Scripture we know is appropriate.

The most important way in which we understand God is through our reading of Scripture.

When you read through the Bible chapter for chapter one will get a broader view or the full context about what happened, maybe where it happened why it did happen and for which purpose it happened but: «All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:..»

They are rarely used, and most people groan when you get to the genealogies of Scripture in their Bible reading, but they are often some of the passages in the Bible which help defend it from the frequent attacks that are leveled against the Bible by it's critics.

Notice this inspired scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works so it must be something we can put our hands on and read and study.

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In this tract Wesley seems to come to his high ideal of «perfect love» in his reading of Scripture informed by a variety of the great spiritual teachers of the church who emphasized similar themeIn this tract Wesley seems to come to his high ideal of «perfect love» in his reading of Scripture informed by a variety of the great spiritual teachers of the church who emphasized similar themein his reading of Scripture informed by a variety of the great spiritual teachers of the church who emphasized similar themes.

This will not only help bring the Bible to life in your own reading of Scripture, but also if you are preparing to teach a Bible Study or preach a sermon.

Bind, the «discovery» was back in 2007... But I do like your selective reading and need to take one story, wed it to a single verse, and declare the inerrancy of scripture.

It's refreshing to read through Bessey's spiritual and theological narrative peppered with thoughtful and insightful reflections on interpreting Paul's biblical stance on women, and a beautiful litany of women in scripture and world history whom God has equipped and used to further God's purposes in the world.

Under the general editorship of Robert Louis Wilken of the University of Virginia, the series (titled The Church's Bible) makes available to scholars, preachers, and the general reader a strikingly fresh way of understanding the Scriptures: the way they were read in the first millennium of Christian history.

We noted in the scripture read this evening that a question of this sort is not new.

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

It is those who give time and attention to getting to know Him in the personal relationship of prayer, reading the scriptures and receiving the Sacraments.

You might need to stop reading your approved - translation - of - the - Bible and only find Scripture in The Message.

These are some of the nicest, happiest verses in scripture, easy to read because we all agree that we should love one another.

'» [2] Reading the first few pages of scripture gave this philosopher - pope a theological anthropology unmatched in the history of Christian thought.

This Christmas Eve, we will light the Christ Candle, the white candle right in the middle of the wreath of our hopes, and we will read the Scriptures here, and we'll talk about Jesus.

He also gives a high priority to the use of Scripture and in the manner of St. Teresa encourages reflective reading to guide and direct wayward thoughts.

I however see the evidence in scripture that the fate of those who reject and deny Christ during the tribulation are faced with violence - AM I WRONG IN READING THIin scripture that the fate of those who reject and deny Christ during the tribulation are faced with violence - AM I WRONG IN READING THIIN READING THIS?

As I read the passages of scripture in the lectionary for today, I found myself identifying most with the author of this psalm.