Sentences with phrase «reading of scripture»

This article was well written and gives any believer the same type of reasoning that should come from a careful reading of the scriptures.

This may not be easy to explain to the sister, especially if her own convictions are tied in with a very literal reading of Scripture.

Any understanding of Scripture which does not lead to love, is an incorrect reading of Scripture, and as you say, is just religion.

It just seems to me a fair reading of the scripture indicates violence is utilized.

Certainly some truths can be understood with only a casual reading of scripture, others with much deeper study but many will remain just out of reach and left to speculation.

Evolution really is junk science and young earth creation is superficial reading of scripture.

As for the «novel» - like reading of scripture, I'd add that the issue of genre is important.

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.

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In the services of the Church the public reading of the Scriptures in the Slavonic translation helped to acquaint the rank and file with the faith, even if imperfectly and accompanied by non-Christian beliefs inherited from the past.

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....

I'm still recovering from some of the rigid intellectualism though (as evidenced by my Paper on «A Hermeneutic for Devotional Reading of Scripture.»

This is what a comprehensive contextual reading of Scripture leads to, instead of having to balance apparently contradictory texts against each other when they are plucked out as «proof texts.»

Piper's selective reading of scripture means he could end up promoting a deformed Christianity rather than a fully biblical one.

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

We should take it seriously, therefore, when it suggests our own individual readings of Scripture are straying from the mark.

As a result, fundamentalists and many evangelicals moved from the vigorous intellectual life that characterized the early evangelicals, to a «plain reading of Scripture,» even though this was the very method of biblical interpretation used by the proslavery camp.

(Wright offers some specific suggestions for preserving a liturgically - grounded reading of scripture — including warnings against dropping certain portions of scripture from liturgical readings because they are startling or strange, as well as warnings against making sermons the focus of corporate worship — that we don't have time to discuss in detail here.)

A simple reading of scripture.

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.

**** HeavenSent writes: «The truth, the reason you don't read any of the scriptures I write back is because of what you told me already, you don't know how to read the Bible.»

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.

Moreover, the council endorses the methods of modern biblical scholarship which reject literalist and fundamentalist readings of Scripture.

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

It has finally become apparent that historical - critical reading of scripture simply can not sustain spiritual life, and efforts are underway to recapture the figural reading of the older tradition.

This is precisely what makes it possible for the Church and ecclesial tradition to provide an authoritative framework for the faithful reading of Scripture.

Do we now have to interpret the homosexual in the context of a fresh 21st century reading of the Scripture?

Rather, he condemned the mobs for trying to institute cultic theocracies based on their idiosyncratic and often violently repressive readings of scripture.

Some have called this the Christotelic lens or the Cruciform reading of Scripture, but I prefer Crucivision because it shows us that it is not just Jesus Christ who provides us a way of reading the Old Testament texts about God, but is specifically Jesus Christ on the cross that helps us see God in a whole new light.

I especially appreciate Wright's emphasis on both individual and corporate readings of scripture.

Public readings of scripture now tend to deemphasise sound - scripture readings in worship tend to be almost mechanistic and without passion or drama.

But this is an incomplete reading of Scripture.

But we can at least predict with confidence that our life of obedience will surely have its impact on our methods of interpretation just as our earlier reading of Scripture had its impact on our lives.

Separatism was bolstered by the fact that a dispensationalist reading of scripture led them to expect the secular and modernist world's rejection of fundamentalists and their beliefs.

A cultural starting point might well demand a «hermeneutical suspicion» (i. e., a distrust of one's previous reading of Scripture, given the possibility that such a reading conceals some of the radical implications of the Biblical message for our day), but it may also assist in the renewed hermeneutical task, allowing the Biblical witness to be freshly experienced, freshly understood, and freshly applied.21

In his book Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph Ratzinger calls us to move beyond mere historical - criticism to a more profoundly theological reading of Scripture.

The tradition of lectio divina — a contemplative reading of scripture — was lost to the Protestant Church, which preferred other ways of reading the scriptures.

It is clear from these writings that, in contrast to current attitudes, the oral reading of scripture was vital to building up the community of faith in ancient Israel.