Sentences with phrase «scriptural text»

I take solace in the fact that the Bible — more precisely, the scribal lineage that produced the canon of scriptural texts as it is presently constituted — portrays Satan as a straight white cis male.

The other scriptural text in which Mary emerges as the Mother of the Church is the apocalyptic vision of Revelation 12.

The book reflects a Mennonite understanding of the church as a community of reconciliation, as stressed in scriptural texts such as Matthew 18 and John 20, wherein Jesus explicitly ties God's forgiveness of people to their forgiveness of others, especially in the Lord's Prayer.

The existentialist view may seem to be supported by scriptural texts such as, «No one has ever seen God» (John 1:18) and «Now we are seeing a dim refection in a mirror; but then we shall be seeing face to face.

Polygamy was, in fact, one of the most sacred credos of Joseph's church — a tenet important enough to be canonized for the ages as Section 132 of The Doctrine and Covenants, one of Mormonism's primary scriptural texts.

Where scriptural text, with its own social dynamics, interacts with preacher and people in social context at the preaching moment, then God speaks from that swirl as surely as Yahweh spoke to Job from the whirlwind.

The more I studied, the more convinced I became that we Christians had applied a different standard to the homosexuality texts than we had to other Scriptural texts, and that condemning Christ - centered relationships solely based on gender was actually inconsistent with biblical teaching.

We needn't devote our browsing to exclusively scriptural texts to learn from the lectio divina method.

The first two commandments are easy to uphold: they involve scriptural texts that are to be publicly read and privately pondered.

Before the printing press was invented Scribes were tasked with copying scriptural text verbatim, and so there are errors, but those do not affect the meaning or point of the particular passages.

I would ask such «exegetes»: if those committees were so free and easy with the material that came to them, how come that, as soon as we have a written scriptural text, there is a scrupulous defence of that text, and no one is allowed to alter it?

In the West, Romans 7:2 is scarcely a well - known scriptural text, certainly not a reference that enthusiastic evangelists wave on placards at sports stadiums.

Rather we want to counter the modern tendency to make grand utterances which, whilst often a valid part of dialogue, use scriptural texts uprooted willy - nilly from their cultural context.

In writing about the ministry of Jesus, Luke gave a focal place to scriptural texts highlighting his salvific character.

And in the entrance we inscribed, in seven scriptural languages, seven scriptural texts on the theme of wisdom.

Now importantly, certain scriptural texts have the Divine Reality speak directly within the text itself.

Clear instructions are given throughout the book enabling the reader or participant to research and cross-reference relevant scriptural texts and to consider these in light of the teaching tradition of the Church.

Find your voice: Application of the Yoga Scriptural Texts, i.e. Yoga Sutras, Shiva Sutras, Upanishads, and Bhaghavad Gita

«This granted, and it being true that two truths can not contradict one another, it is the function of expositors to seek out the true senses of scriptural texts.

They were those particular acts either prohibited by scriptural texts or contrary to natural law — acts done with the wrong person, in the wrong way or for the wrong purpose.

SR participants are attentive to contemporary issues even as they seek deeper levels of meaning in scriptural texts.

He spoke of consecration and hallowing, of a new birth of freedom and of a nation under God, but all without explicit reference to Divine agency or scriptural text.

While the Holy Father's study presupposes historical - critical exegesis and makes use of its discoveries, «it seeks to transcend this method and to arrive at a genuinely theological interpretation of the scriptural text» (p. 295).

Indeed, he goes out of his way to show that, given certain assumptions about the ahistorical nature of the Bible, Darbyite premillennialism arose in a natural, even logical way from the scriptural text.

Mistakenly for them, but fortunately for the Bible, that statement on child - rearing is not a scriptural text.

There is a sense in which the objectivity of the scriptural text in its unchanging wording can be appealed to as a corrective against the most highly fanciful flights of redefinition, but it would be part of the naivete against which the Apostle warns us if we were to take that objectivity as a guarantee.

It is scholastic orthodoxy which is naively pre-critical when it assumes that the scriptural text standing there alone can be interpreted faithfully and can be equated with our systematic restructuring of its contents.

I learned that day that such scriptural texts can gain powerful new valency in the prison context.

Is it sufficient for the church to claim that biblical truth lies in the capacity of the scriptural text to draw readers into a new framework of meaning that makes sense of one's life and world.

For some time it has been obvious in the academic world that the scriptural texts can not simply be taken at face value but presuppose a thought world that is alien to...

I have expressed my current judgments in order to acknowledge that I do not approach the scriptural texts in a completely neutral way.

Paragraphs 5 and 6 are formed by a beautiful combination of scriptural texts that are a description of God's redemptive work as culminating in the paschal mystery.

No amount of exegetical dexterity or theological acumen can give us the revelatory meaning of the scriptural text.

I here concur with Luther who contended that every scriptural text can be law or gospel depending on how we relate it to Jesus Christ.

(6) The parabolic statement of the binding of the strong man in Mark 3:27 affords another opportunity to see Jesus Christ as the hidden and sometimes the explicit meaning of the scriptural text.

For some time it has been obvious in the academic world that the scriptural texts can not simply be taken at face value but presuppose a thought world that is alien to our own.

Landry regularly raises questions about what difference the scriptural text makes to the hearers as a community and constantly envisions how the congregation can react corporately to the implications of the Word in Scripture.

The diagram on page 64 presents the basic holism of preaching with its integration of scriptural text, preacher, and community of believers, all set in the surrounding social context.

The preaching model already established to depict the contemporary social dynamics of a preaching moment serves as a convenient model for the social realities of the scriptural text.

Once the social constructs of the contemporary side of the model are established, then the discussion will turn to the dynamics of corporate life inherent in the scriptural text.

Another kind of community regularly comes alive in David Landry's sermons; the body of believers that either foreshadows or gives rise to the sermon's scriptural text.

(7) The meaning that becomes the Word at the preaching moment consists of three key interlocks: the interface of the scriptural text with preacher; the interrelation of preacher with people; and the interconnection of the people with Scripture.

Up to this point the investigation of preaching as the interface of two social worlds has delved only into the social dynamics of the contemporary preacher, congregation, and social context as they are addressed by the scriptural text for the sermon.