Sentences with phrase «scriptural interpretation»

Like those who argue for a young earth, many flat earthers used scriptural interpretation to bolster their belief.

So I will just address Mattson's objection to the idea that an authority with a «final say» can solve the problem of divergent scriptural interpretations.

Wisdom won't save us, nor accurate scriptural interpretation, only faith — faith in God.

I was also predisposed to welcome, at a much later date, the work of my Yale colleagues Brevard Childs and Hans Frei on canonical reading and on narrative and figural scriptural interpretation, respectively.

For me, it is clear that Cyprian's interpretations of scripture can be understood when we ascribe to him a technique of Scriptural interpretation which can be characterised as attributed implicit theological disclosure.

* My * meeting God, * my * freedom, * my * revelation, * my * personal understanding, * my * heart, what * I * think is the best scriptural interpretation.

Jones thus offers extended accounts of how baptism, eucharist, forgiveness, and scriptural interpretation serve to shape the character and moral judgment of Christians.

This comes through frequently in his Gospel exegesis, which gives little weight to Scriptural interpretation within Tradition: «Jesus preached the coming of the kingdom of God and it is very improbable that he gave precise instruction for future ecclesiastical discipline» (p. 41).

In contrast, premillenialism's comparative sympathy for reasonably literal scriptural interpretation is laying the groundwork for the possibility of true healing of the long - standing breach between church and synagogue.

If only Scriptural interpretation were really that easy!

Seriously, Get Real, if you are going to engage in scriptural interpretation you might want to do some reading about the historical - critical method of interpretation.

Entitled «The First Sixteen Centuries,» this chapter provides a brief but informative overview of 1600 years of church history and scriptural interpretation, specifically as it relates to questions of biblical authority.

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.

Those with a vested interest in theological education can't help wondering how a church can remain effective over the long haul without a solid foundation of scriptural interpretation, church history and systematic theology among its leaders.

Scriptural interpretation must allow for continuing actualization as necessary implications are drawn out.

All thoughts in the line of Scriptural interpretation would leave use until the rising of the sun.

However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

It's puzzling that a movement that makes such a strong appeal to Augustine and Aquinas should almost completely lack that very strong mark of both — of being deeply immersed in scriptural interpretation.

And, fourth, our scriptural interpretation should exhibit openness to God's truth that may be revealed through other disciplines of human inquiry.

Early Christians arrested Galileo because he tried to show them that the earth went around the sun, contrary to their «beliefs» and scriptural interpretation that the earth was the center of the universe.

You can not tell the players without their programs and can almost never tell them by their denominational names when scraps over Pentecostalism, scriptural interpretation or even church order surface and engross people.

And politicians in democratic republics are too smart to deal with preventing problems, especially when the obvious solutions run counter to traditions or scriptural interpretations.