Sentences with phrase «rooted in the scriptures»

A believers motivation is high and shaped by a strong sense of purpose in life, their motivation is rooted in the scriptures as evidenced by those high performers.

If the grievance is not rooted in Scripture than it is simply a complaint.

It never takes me away from the reality that is rooted in the scriptures and theology.

More exactly, they are rooted in those texts as they have been conventionally used over long periods of time within the communities» common life; they are rooted in scripture - in - tradition.

Here's my blurb: «With this book, Austin Fischer brings fresh insights to a very old conversation with a perspective that is at times piercing, at times deeply personal, and always thoughtful and rooted in scripture.

Rauschenbusch remained more self - consciously rooted in Scripture than did Adams, however, and he maintained closer ties to church circles than to academic ones.

Daniel P. Moloney trivializes this concern by saying that «bridal mysticism... has its roots in Scripture (especially in the Song of Songs and 2 Corinthians 11:2)....

Or, instead, can we recognize that a substantial minority in our culture hold views they see as rooted in their scriptures and part of their faith, even though those views may not always be popularly accepted?

Nevertheless, the sanctuary church movement is a movement, and, according to Keeney, it has its roots in Scripture.

Their Neoplatonic cosmology, with its triads and ranks of celestial beings, may appear artificial to our contemporary mind; yet it is a vision deeply rooted in the scriptures and tradition.

Well, the truth as we know it is rooted in Scripture.

This belief of Christians» towards Israel is better rooted in scripture than the 1948 creation of the state of Israel.

All these assumptions, they would insist, are rooted in the Scriptures and therefore are beyond challenge.

It has deep roots in the Scripture, «Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt» (Ex.

«Evangelical identity is rooted in Scripture.

The excursus on «The Legacy of the Reformation» devotes paragraphs to Luther, Calvin, Henry VIII and the radical reformers, and concludes with a recognition of the reform within Roman Catholicism: «The Roman Church worked to get back to its roots in scripture and tradition.

The principle of solidarity has its roots in the scriptures.

A «Christ - centered school, birthed in prayer and rooted in Scripture,» it offers generous scholarships to poor students.

Not exact matches

While Jewish Christians often erred in the direction of legalism, Gentile Christians often erred in the direction of philosophical speculations which sundered Christianity from its historical roots» (God's Festivals in Scripture and The Catholic theologian Augustine lived A.D. 354 - 430.

The covenant was not simply a piece of paper affirming partnership no matter what, but instead a means to secure the «robust accountability» and «gracious restraint» that characterize deep relationships rooted in mutual recognition of catholic faith and order, grounded in creedal doctrine, and answerable to the authoritative word of Scripture.

Instead of accommodating its usage» and so its ideas and assumptions» a translation of Holy Scripture should serve the end of conversion by employing principles that recognize Christianity as its own culture with its own language and practices, raising readers up and rooting them in a rich tradition of translation, transforming them through the creative rationality, beauty, goodness, and truth reflective of the triune God who speaks his Word.

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

«An old friend of Scripture Union, HRH's passion for work with children and young people, rooted in his leadership of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme, was infectious and he loved meeting both our staff and some of the teenagers we work with.

But the roots of caste can be traced back to a story in the most ancient Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, in which the various social classes are produced from the sacrifice of a primordial man — the priestly class from the mouth, the warrior class from the arms, the merchant class from the thighs, the laboring class from the feet (Rig Veda 90:10).

Coupled with the desperate unfamiliarity I have felt whenever I attended Catholic, Anglican or even Lutheran worship, the roots of my reticence gradually imbedded themselves in scripture itself.

The best way Christians can resist the «pervasive pluralistic consumerism destructive of all enduring traditions and communities... is the reappropriation without expropriation of the church's roots in Israel and Israel's scriptures.

This image, radical as it may seem (in light of the dominant metaphor of a king to his realm) for imagining the relationship between God and the world, is a very old one with roots in Stoicism and elliptically in the Hebrew Scriptures.

However, the rituals, norms, and criteria of exemplariness and appropriateness are finally rooted in texts comprising the communities» scripture.

«The tree of Abolition is evil,» declared Reverend Henry Van Dyke in 1860, «and only evil — root and branch, flower and leaf, and fruit; that it springs from, and is nourished by an utter rejection of the Scriptures.»

Money is the root of all evil according to the scriptures and money is why so many churches are failing in this nation that is dually reducing God to a «higher being.»

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... I rest my case

Reinhold Niebuhr failed to root his definitions of justice and equality in the story and symbols of scripture, Hays thinks.

Impelled by a need to find the roots of their form of Mormonism, leading historians of the Reorganization have embarked on an exercise in higher criticism, subjecting to close scrutiny Joseph Smith's story and Mormon scripture as well as the two official versions of church history.

The importance in the global South of «biblical roots,» and the ability of the Christian scriptures to attract and convert, or claim and be claimed, can hardly be overstated.

The events recorded in the Scripture, on the other hand, are firmly rooted in history.

The best among those Jews who decide to take that step are likely to end up as lonely and misunderstood missionaries, calling an unrepentant church to renewal through a recovery of its roots in the Hebrew Scriptures.

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 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 Scripture in light of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

There is overwhelming biblical scholarship for the full equality of women and that the interpretation of scripture to exclude women from roles by gender (rather than gifting) has been found to be rooted in patriarchy, an ancient worldview that became intertwined in the growth and doctrine of the church.

His Israel of God in Prophecy and Chariots of Salvation are two books that stick particularly to the Bible In both books he remains true to an exegesis that is rooted in the OT and NT Scriptures making it possible for the Christian to understand what has otherwise been an eschatological landscape filled with clouds of personal prognostications that masquerade as Biblicain Prophecy and Chariots of Salvation are two books that stick particularly to the Bible In both books he remains true to an exegesis that is rooted in the OT and NT Scriptures making it possible for the Christian to understand what has otherwise been an eschatological landscape filled with clouds of personal prognostications that masquerade as BiblicaIn both books he remains true to an exegesis that is rooted in the OT and NT Scriptures making it possible for the Christian to understand what has otherwise been an eschatological landscape filled with clouds of personal prognostications that masquerade as Biblicain the OT and NT Scriptures making it possible for the Christian to understand what has otherwise been an eschatological landscape filled with clouds of personal prognostications that masquerade as Biblical.

This is in fact already sometimes the case for students of Scripture who lack religious roots.

As Paul writes to the Romans, the timelessness of the Scriptures» instruction and encouragement is fundamental to the Christian faith; in the same way, then, the most emotionally compelling art and design elicits a certain harkening to the roots of its people.

I believe a lot of the Islamic scripture has its roots in the Jewish scriptures, and that Islamic Law is a «spin off» from the Mosaic Law.

The shades of Marcionism move lively again across the pulpit when the Church, for reasons probably sincere and rooted in a theology of the Word, is unwilling to take up the task of interpreting Scripture for specific contemporary settings.

That influence can best be enhanced by seeing to it that the roots of Christian theology in Scripture are clear and strong.

As I watch Christian theology and church tradition fall into a tradition that is rooted not so much in Scripture as in history, I was hoping to learn how and why the Jewish tradition developed as it did, and see if there were any similarities to how our own tradition is developing.

This truth is rooted in Sacred Scripture.

Harry Truman's support for the creation of the State of Israel was rooted in his interpretation of Scripture.

This way of speaking about scripture is rooted in the spiritual practices of the liturgical churches, Childs observes, not «the way the Bible actually functions within the church» — apparently meaning, in this case, the nonliturgical churches.

Matthew again returns to what no good biblical scholar would dispute: that many of the gender roles alluded to in Scripture are rooted in patriarchy.

My argument is that the evangelical content of Christianity is rooted in the apostolic interpretation of the Christ event which, in the developing sources of the church, is contained in Scripture.