Sentences with phrase «scriptural narratives»

There is only one historical Jesus Christ.13 In this Bonhoeffer follows the conclusions of Martin Kahler.14 The Logos, who is personal, who is incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth, is confronted through the historical scriptural narratives and is known in no other way or form.

The same principle applies to other scriptural narratives.

Conceptual growth is growth in certain abilities and capacities to discern and respond to God and is disciplined by scriptural narratives.

The new genre would contain autobiographical fiction closely based on the Scriptural narratives and faithful to first - century history.

To say that Christians should allow the biblical world to absorb their own world, Placher explains, is to affirm that Christians should resist viewpoints and ideologies that are incompatible with the central claims of scriptural teaching and that Christians should consider whether scriptural narrative «might be unexpectedly helpful» in understanding their own lives.

Barth insisted that to hear scriptural narrative as God's Word has nothing necessarily to do with defending its historical character or some particular historical element within it.

His point was not that scriptural narrative contains no historical elements, but rather that the Bible's historical elements are always mixed with myth, saga and related forms of expression as vehicles of the Word.

We're collectively over thinking the simplicity of the scriptural narrative & talking over the quiet voice of the Holy Spirit, while marching into battle.

In both cases, the priority of scriptural narrative itself was overturned.

In the case of Christianity, he observed, it is scriptural narrative that shapes the cultural - linguistic world in which the corporate body of Christ expresses its meanings and seeks to follow Christ.

The school of theology founded by Frei and Lindbeck has emphasized the community - forming centrality of scriptural narrative and the countercultural mission of the church.

Frei emphasized the primacy of scriptural narrative for theology.

Like Barth, Frei contended that much of scriptural narrative is history - like without needing to be historical.

The coherence of this story made figural interpretation possible; certain events within and outside of scriptural narrative were viewed as having prefigured or reflected the central biblical events.

It's the picture on the front of his baby Bible; the opening gambit for engaging our pre-schoolers with the scriptural narrative.

Not exact matches

When Noll speaks of Equiano's «immersion» in Scripture, he is not using that metaphor casually, as an extract from the Narrative makes clear with its «fusillade of scriptural quotations and allusions.»

Over the next several centuries, with what Wright considers the gradual loss of the «Israel - dimension» in the church's understanding of itself and its scriptures, «the notion of scriptural authority became detached from its narrative context, and thereby isolated from both the fit and the goal of the Kingdom,» according to Wright.

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.

The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative offered a richly detailed survey of the ways 18th - and 19th - century theologians overlooked the narrative character of scripture, but fundamentally, Frei argued, there were two main strategies by which modernist (and modernist - influenced) theologians reconstrued scripturalNarrative offered a richly detailed survey of the ways 18th - and 19th - century theologians overlooked the narrative character of scripture, but fundamentally, Frei argued, there were two main strategies by which modernist (and modernist - influenced) theologians reconstrued scripturalnarrative character of scripture, but fundamentally, Frei argued, there were two main strategies by which modernist (and modernist - influenced) theologians reconstrued scriptural meaning.

No Galilean narrative undertakes to prove the actuality or the scriptural authority of the Resurrection.

She has taken many Scriptural references out of context, and does not seem to understand the Biblical narrative as a whole.

N. T. Wright puts what I'm trying to say succinctly when he argues that the entire burden of the Pauline letters is to teach new Christians to «think within the biblical narrative, to see themselves as actors within the ongoing scriptural drama: to allow their erstwhile pagan thought - forms to be transformed by a biblically based renewal of the mind» (emphasis added).

It details different types of pacifism and scriptural sources from the Gospel narratives.