Sentences with phrase «redemptive movement»

Webb deals with the troubling passages concerning slaves, women, and homosexuals by applying what he calls a redemptive movement hermeneutic to distinguish between cultural and trans - cultural components within Scripture.

Today I want to focus on Webb's «redemptive movement hermeneutic,» specifically as it applies to those tricky passages of Scripture that leave us scratching our heads.

Using additional criteria, (which we will discuss later), Webb asserts that the redemptive movement of Scripture supports the abolition of slavery, a more egalitarian approach to women's roles in society, and the continued condemnation of homosexual behavhior.

Because I believe in the redemptive movement of God, moving the story of humanity further into God's purposes and heart for us, one story at a time.

If man's redemptive movement toward God is to be real, so also must his fall away from God be real.

If the Bible is an ancient dialogue around the gradually growing picture of the character of God, fully revealed only in Jesus, it is also a dynamic conversation which, rather than ending with the finalisation of the canon of the Bible, continues beyond it and involves all of those who give themselves to Christ's ongoing redemptive movement.

Bessey sees God's action in the world as a redemptive movement for all people towards equality and freedom, leading her to joyful conviction that «There is more room!

God's redemptive movement, the slow and steady arc towards justice.

One needn't identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world.

With this in mind, I read in the hope that I might participate in the redemptive movements of history, the kind that will look redemptive centuries from now.»

Not exact matches

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

As G. E. Bentley Jr.'s critical study of Vala demonstrates, Blake's frequent and disorderly revisions of this manuscript epic reveal his own movement into a Christian and redemptive understanding of history, an understanding that could not be reconciled with the initial direction of the poem.

Through Blake we can sense the theological significance of a poetic reversal of our mythical traditions, and become open to the possibility that the uniquely modern metamorphosis of the sacred into the profane is the culmination of a redemptive and kenotic movement of the Godhead.

In the book, Webb seeks to employ what he calls a redemptive - movement hermeneutic to help distinguish between cultural and trans - cultural biblical values, specifically applying this method to slavery, gender issues, and homosexuality.

Christianity is that movement within human history in which the efficacy of Israel's witness to God's creative and redemptive work has been mediated through Jesus and the apostolic witness to God's activity in him.

With public discontent seemingly on the rise, strong social movements of «democratic populism» and «redemptive radicalism» increasingly capture the public vote [3].

mutate into a redemptive novel associated with the civil rights movement?»

A patriotic movement, known as Parallel Action, has been founded to organize a lavish celebration of the upcoming anniversary of the emperor's reign, a celebration that is intended to serve as a redemptive example for the rest of the world.