Sentences with phrase «recent biblical scholarship»

Recent biblical scholarship instructs us that Jesus» reference to God as «Abba,» which is a trust - filled term of address to one's «father,» a name of intimacy and deep affection, already contains the nucleus of the Christian revelation.

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Of course, process theology can not fulfil this responsibility without interpreting Scripture, and the separation of process theology in recent decades from the close involvement in Biblical scholarship of the earlier Chicago school has led to critical weaknesses which are only now being addressed.1 Nevertheless, for process theology the appropriate relationship to the Bible can not be exhausted by hermeneutic.

Our discussion was also informed by the superb biblical scholarship of Father Joseph Fitzmyer, whose recent Commentary on Romans illuminates the Pauline meaning of justification:

To me, for example, one of the most exciting recent developments in Spinoza scholarship is Carlos Fraenkel's argument that Spinoza could have adopted a more conciliatory approach to biblical interpretation, one that would reinterpret the Bible in accordance with his teachings, thus mitigating their heretical tone.

The modern genre of historical - critical commentary has become ossified, and the vast majority read like summaries of recent scholarship rather than fresh engagements with the biblical text.

In a more recent work, American Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A History From the Early Republic to Vatican II, Fogarty offers, among other things, a useful antidote to the claims of some Catholic «restorationists» that the anti-Modernist excesses of the early twentieth century were the invention of fevered post-Vatican II liberal imaginations.

A summary of recent biblical critical scholarship attempts to provide a similarly credible ground for accepting its authority.