Sentences with word «scriptura»
That is what it means to have an inspired Scripture and this is the import of the sola scriptura principle for doctrine.
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Similarly, other points from doctrinal statements often represent key teachings from Scripture and can help guide our own study into Scripture, keeping us within the doctrinal boundaries of Christians from the past (See The Shape of Sola Scriptura for more on this idea).
To fail to read scripture in this way, according to McDermott, is to hold to nuda scriptura in which the interpretation of scripture is reduced to the application of current sensibilities that reinforce the autonomy of the late - modern individual.
In addition to this series of granite works Nauman produced fifty prints with the same phrase, «PARTIAL TRUTH», rendered in the same scriptura monumentalis font, for the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art on the occasion of their 1997 exhibition Bruce Nauman: 1985 — 1996: Drawings, Prints, and Related Works.
For this reason, it is more appropriate to speak of prima scriptura» which more adequately represents historic Christian orthodoxy while preserving Scripture's normative place in doing moral theology.
However, by definition, Solo Scriptura is an impossible belief.
As a Lutheran I thought of faith as the centerpiece of my religion: sola scriptura with its extra-biblical simul iustus et peccator.
This does not mean a nuda scriptura because, as Meyendorff argues, the Bible requires the reality of a fellowship that exists in the whole people of God.
Perversely, this sola scriptura approach is no different from the jihadists» own «Qur» an and sunna alone» approach.
The phrase sola scriptura refers to the primacy and sufficiency of Scripture as the theological norm — the only infallible rule of faith and practice — over all tradition rather than the mere rejection of tradition itself.
------------------ The «an.alogia scriptura» is a good two word definition of proper hermeneutics.
He has to configure a new batch of punch cards, load and run them for his Analogia Scriptura algorithms.
It is not with the priority of Scripture that this reviewer takes issue, but rather with evangelicals» understanding and application of the sola scriptura slogan.
This is 2014, and, by now, it should be obvious that Sola Scriptura just doesn't work.
I finished reading The Shape of Sola Scriptura last week, and with his emphasis on creeds and the teaching office of the church, it made me ask a few related questions as the one above.
Ultimately, it usually ends with even the most ardent sola scriptura Lutheran appealing to tradition, where I simply do not follow.
In confining God's revelation to the written word, sola scriptura theology not only cut itself off from much of the rich trinitarian thinking since Nicaea, but limited revelation to the exigencies of human salvation.
Is sola scriptura such a tenuous, anxious doctrine?
I think, for example, it is arguable that the small Karaite Jewish sect that relies upon the Bible only and rejects the Talmud and the Protestant reformers with their similar reliance upon sola Scriptura came up with standards that can be applied practically and that are rooted in the traditions they seek to reform.
And it is misappropriated by the self - appointed Protestant guardians of the sola scriptura who behave as if the Bible were their possession and preserve its letter without its spirit.
As the truly orthodox Catholic position, Augustine's statement puts Martin Luther and the whole sola scriptura crowd first in line at the cafeteria.
Return to sola scriptura seems regressive in an ecumenical age for whom Scripture is primary but whose available resources for theological interpretation are more encompassing than mere Scripture [Leroy T. Howe].
Abraham is better on the Reformers because of his awareness that their actual theological practice is often superior to their sola scriptura polemical excesses, but even here he at times sounds more like a prosecuting attorney than a well - informed and fair - minded scholar.
[3] Since the Second Vatican Council this «crescendo» has continued with, among others, the Pontifical Biblical Commission documents De Sacra Scriptura et Christologia, 1984; TheInterpretation of the Bible in the Church, 1993; and The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible, 2001.
It will differ also from what many Christians say, especially those whose ideas of sola scriptura lead them to exclude other sources of understanding and knowledge.
An approach of sola scriptura makes neither historical nor theological sense.
Butterfly species in Northern California, such as Pyrgus scriptura (shown), may suffer spillover effects of local neonicotinoid pesticide use.
A poetic performance piece exploring duality, SCRIPTURA VITAE stars famed Japanese actress Miho Nikaido, best known for her role in the Japanese cult classic film «Tokyo Decadence», alongside Butoh performer and dancer Maki Shinagawa.
Partial Truth comprises a rectangular slab of polished black granite into which have been carved the words «PARTIAL TRUTH» over two lines in the Roman - style lettering scriptura monumentalis.
It is this complexity which I wish to analyze in order that I may say how it is that evangelical theologians today ought to construe the significance of the sola scriptura principle for their work.
It requires study according to the analogia scriptura.
The signatories» real principle, it would seem, is prima scriptura, but they have apparently exercised the better part of valor in choosing not to declare so explicitly.