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reading of texts with a carefully curated set of 76 field - tested books.
Most obvious among these, he wrote, «is that they force the reader to interrupt
the reading of the text with glances down to the bottom of the page.
Not exact matches
As titillating as it might be to
read Andreessen's
text messages to Zuckerberg, however — in which the former quotes from a 1950's film noir
with Burt Lancaster, remarking «The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river» — the whole thing feels like a bit
of a sideshow.
The ad featured a picture
of Trump Jr.
with text reading, «Trump has arrived.
Digging a bit into the details, Reuters said that the malware worked
with a feature
of Telegram that lets the messaging software recognize
text that is
read right to left, which includes Arabic and Hebrew.
It provides features found on sophisticated financial software for your phone or tablet, including charts
with 50 + indicators, stock screening, industry group and sector analysis, and audio expert technical analysis
of chart patterns for easy listening, or
text if you prefer to
read.
«You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data
of millions
of people in 2014,»
read the ad, which featured black
text on a white background,
with the Facebook logo at the bottom.
• The Great Melody (University
of Chicago Press) by Conor Cruise O'Brien is a «thematic biography»
of Edmund Burke and is a fine
read despite the fact that at least half the
text should have been consigned to footnotes, being, for the most part, insider disputes
with other biographers
of Burke.
Did you know that the Gospel
of Thomas is a late Gnostic
text that just about anyone
with an education doesn't take seriously (nor, pretty much anyone
with familiarity
with the Bible who has actually
read it!).
To ignore these principles
of interpretation is to distort the
text just as much as if you ignored the principle
of reading poetry as poetry
with all the rich meaning
of figurative language and chose rather to
read it like it was a science
text book.
If you are honest you have to wrestle
with these issues or be subjected to the same form
of proof
texting and selective
reading of the Bible discussed in the article above.
In other words, the Church's determination to
read the Old and New Testaments together, to consider them a sequential set
of texts with theological integrity, led to, or at least made itself deeply at home
with, a widespread use
of a single codex for the unified Christian Bible.
2)
Readings: No one doubts that reading texts is essential for the program, but few if any of us know how to combine reflection on practice with discussions of r
Readings: No one doubts that
reading texts is essential for the program, but few if any
of us know how to combine reflection on practice
with discussions
of readingsreadings.
Third and fourth
reads of the
text have proven to be useful in understanding the «downfall»
of the early church; roots
of error and departure from NT expectations for a local assembly that have bloomed into flowers
with an unpleasant aroma that must be a stench in the nostrils
of God.
Books like Holy Hilarity help us break out
of the box
of reading the Bible
with straight faces, so that we can see the truth in the
text.
In the book, I make a brief but impassioned case for
reading the
text with the prejudice
of love, a hermeneutic I believe was employed by Jesus, and, as many reviewers have pointed out, a hermeneutic that Augustine also favored.
I am convinced that you must
read the Bible
with a half smile on your lips and a glint
of humor in your eyes if you are going to properly understand some
texts.
The Office
of Readings for the solemnity
of the Ascension offers a lovely excerpt from one
of St. Augustine's sermons «de Ascensione Domini,» in which the learned Bishop
of Hippo takes as his
text Colossians 3:1 - 2: «If then you have been raised
with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated, at the right hand
of God.
It merely superimposes a traditional Augustinian
reading of Paul's language regarding grace and works
of the law (one that competent New Testament scholars know to be erroneous) upon a
text clearly irreconcilable
with its premises.
Dear Jeremy, I
read this article and please go
with me as I lay out the logic, or the lack
of logic in this
text.
In fact, we engage in detail
with alternative
readings of relevant
texts, and offer arguments both for and against our own interpretations.
Liturgy commissions used to produce guides (perhaps they still do)
with a selection
of hymns that had some tangential relevance to the
readings, but never to the
texts of the introit, gradual, offertory or communion, for which they were meant to be apt replacements.
The sacred
text was
read with the Fathers
of the Church, accompanied by commentaries and catenae,
with frequent glosses explaining the meaning
of difficult....
In the Revised Standard Version (1946) this passage is set apart in small italic type, and the marginal note
reads: «Other ancient authorities add 7:53 - 8:11 either here or at the end
of this gospel or after Luke 21:38,
with variations
of the
text.»
The description
of each
of the station churches begins
with suggested Bible
readings and other
texts from the commentaries and sermons
of the church fathers, followed by a meditation.
You can not point to any one and say this is the right one (
with any authority other than «what you want to believe») Every religious
text I've ever
read is clearly written via the various perceptions
of man, not some divine being.
To be deep in history is certainly, for instance, to cease to be an evangelical
of the kind who allows experience to trump doctrine, who believes doctrine can be
read off the surface
of the biblical
text, and who sees no theological or existential problem that can not be solved
with a proof
text or two.
For, recognizing that «there is a difference between translating what the
text means and translating what it says,» he emphatically elects the latter, thus reconnecting the genre
of modern Bible translation
with the ancient practice
of reading aloud and, as a result, conveying much
of the texture
of the Hebrew in ways that other translations can not.
In
texts from the Hebrew Bible often
read in churches during the season
of Advent, light is associated
with God's acts
of deliverance:
There are some cultural things going on here
with the act
of baptism, and the fact that family members and servants usually followed the religion
of the head
of their household, but again, the most straightforward way
of reading these
texts is that more than one person believed, and those that did believe were baptized.
Several
of us entered into a heated discussion
with our visitor, out
of which a relative consensus emerged: We do
read the classic
texts of Latin American theology (Gutiérrez, Boff, Segundo, Sobrino, Miguez Bonino and others), some
of them for their historical importance, others for their continuing relevance.
Reading with love entails risks, according to Jacobs, including the risk
of not being in command
of the
text.
Right now, all my
reading time is consumed
with trying to understand the other violent
texts of the Old Testament.
the point
of reading is not to restate the meaning intended by the author but to engage the
text in creative thought, often by means
of punning play
with the
text.
Though some
texts are distorted to try to prove the idea
of an immortal soul, they are in fact just that, distorted to say something that they don't say because they are
read with the false lens
of this pagan concept.
Often, Kernan would devote a significant part
of his lecture time to
reading the
text aloud, not in a highly dramatic manner, but
with sensitivity to the
texts» rhythms and semantic nuances.
By its nature, as a method seeking to reflect in its own structure the qualities
of the
text being
read, «biblical realism» must be pluralistic
with regard to styles and formulation.
The problem
with theology is that people
read back into the
text the ideas that they have established out
of the
text.
if it is all «context» and can be so subjectively
read, there is either NO authorial intent (and therefore no permanent meaning) or you are assuming a larger foundation
of truth to
read along
with the
text (but that invites all the criticism you are levying against the religious).
In this method, take notes on everything surrounding your decision, such as lists
of pros and cons, notes on books you're
reading, God's messages to you through the Bible, conversations
with others, recounts
of key events, copies
of important e - mails / letters or transcripts
of texts / chats / voicemails, questions you have, and so on.
When, during the course
of his
reading what he came to say, applause and cheers broke out, he would hesitantly look up from his
text with a small smile
of pleased surprise and say, in effect, «That's very nice but now let us return to the subject at hand.»
Carey proposes that human behavior be considered as a
text,
with the task
of the researcher being to construct a «
reading»
of the
text.
But we are faced just like the literary critic
with figuring out what the
text says,
of constructing a
reading of it.
We
read the Bible «through the Jesus lens» — which looks suspiciously like it means using the parts
of the Gospels that we like,
with the awkward bits carefully screened out, which enables us to disagree
with the biblical
texts on God, history, ethics and so on, even when Jesus didn't (Luke 17:27 - 32 is an interesting example).
Using Shakespeare instead
of the scriptures as the source for their
text, but without
reading the passage to the end, they said
with Hamlet:
Clark Pinnock, in a perceptive paper entitled «The Inerrancy Debate Among the Evangelicals,» warns that men like Francis Schaeffer and Harold Lindsell «tend to confuse the high view
of Scripture
with their own interpretation
of it, so that unless one agrees
with their
reading of the
text he may be described as an unsound evangelical or no evangelical at all.
Hiding behind their
reading of this
text, the pastor and the executive council avoided listening, stopped conversation and the possibility
of healing, and joined their voices
with the disciples in asking, «Who's the greatest?»
A careful
reading of the
text indicates they had been struggling
with the wind and the waves for about six hours.
TERTULLIAN, THE FLESH AND ORTHODOXY Dear Father Editor While I can only share your Carthusian correspondent's enthusiasm for the Catechism
of the Catholic Church as a sure guide to the Church's teachings, I
read —
with some surprise — in his comments on the letters I wrote to you in 2007 that I am supposed to hold suspect, or even possibly unorthodox, «any
text» that cites Tertullian.
Disagree
with the other person if you want to, but recognize that they are trying to understand and explain the
text just as much as you are, and that just as you want them to listen to how you arrived at your conclusions regarding the
text (and don't say, «I just
read the Bible,» because you didn't), so also, that other person likely engaged in deep study
of the biblical
text to arrive at their understanding and it would benefit you to hear how they came to their understanding.