Sentences with phrase «scriptural revelation»

This eventually destroyed the original notion of scriptural revelation through the saints.

Privileging the «Judeo - Christian tradition» means putting a premium on a particular scriptural revelation not open to all.

If those of us who are evangelicals did that with an unconditional readiness to change whatever did not correspond with the scriptural revelation of God's special concern for the poor and oppressed, we would unleash a new movement of biblical social concern that would change the course of modern history.

As Maimonides pointed out in the twelfth century, Jews and Christians do not differ over what constitutes scriptural revelation per se but rather in our often differing interpretations of that same revelation.

For Christians, the story is heightened by the knowledge that Ruth and Boaz are the ancestors of Christ's foster - father, Joseph, by scriptural revelation and of His mother, Mary, by tradition.

Throughout the history of the church, risky anthropomorphisms in Christian discourse were excused by appeal to the accommodated, analogical, symbolic or poetic form of the scriptural revelation.

This was always our objection to earlier forms of Roman Catholicism - we must not add human traditions to the scriptural revelation as if they were binding on the church.

Fundamentalists and modernists in the oldline Protestant churches once disputed the proper relationship between religion and science, or between scriptural revelation and a rationalist outlook inherited from the Enlightenment.

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.

I must consider the strength of its affirmation, its place within cumulative biblical revelation, and its distinctive tone within the symphony of the scriptural choir.

(2) Those which recognize no other basic scriptural authority than the revelation brought to light by their founder.

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

The community of Christians addressed by their teachers will either receive or not receive the teaching in light of their faith in Jesus Christ and of the scriptural witness to God's revelation in Christ.

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

«the revelation of God on the cross, together with a wealth of confirming scriptural evidence, makes it clear that to bring a judgment on people, God need only withdraw his merciful protecting hand to allow people to experience the self - destructive consequences of their own wickedness, including the wickedness of trusting in violence rather than in God.»