Sentences with phrase «scriptural canon»

The Book of Moses, found within the scriptural canon of the LDS Church, has several similarities to the Book of Enoch, [30] including names [31] that have been found in some versions of the Book of Enoch, and is believed by the Church to contain a condensed record of Enoch.»

Despite the many books that continue to be published on the topic, «New Testament ethics» is a misleading category, confusing historical constructions with normative judgments, eliding difficult questions about the nature of a scriptural canon, and above all failing to take with sufficient seriousness the dialectic between the formation of a community and the development of the community's norms of belief and behavior.»

I've selected to give a homily on Job 2:1 - 10, and I might note that being Orthodox we're using the Septuagint (for that is their Scriptural canon) and the book of Job differs considerably (it's 400 lines shorter but is longer in some places).

Not exact matches

And Canon Luiz Ruscillo's piece shows how recent magisterial development of scriptural interpretation is leading us, through the Spirit who guides us into all truth, to a deeper and more unified understanding of the mystery of revelation.

We would end up with a fractured canon, with bits and pieces taken out of their Scriptural context, with a different body of canon for each theological point of view, and with those portions of Scripture which we find uncomfortable not only ignored but disposed of altogether.

Formally considered, there are two possibilities for making the neo-orthodox distinction between the canon of Scripture itself and «the canon within the canon» of the scriptural witness, depending on whether one does or does not presuppose the first in determining the second.