Sentences with phrase «scriptural tradition»

The scriptural tradition states this in revealing images.

In the scriptural tradition which authorizes us, it is the speech of the poor that begins history (cf. Exod.

Therefore, the vocation of ordained ministry includes the critical role of mediating the scriptural tradition in its purity to succeeding generations.

We begin with the simple reminder that the Song of Songs is part of our scriptural tradition.

While in some ways this is a new and unfamiliar way of thinking about God, it is consistent with one key part of the scriptural tradition: in the Bible, God is the one who makes things new.

The book confesses on almost every page a deep familiarity with the scriptural tradition.

The materials of the Indian scriptural tradition do not dearly affirm brahman as either static or dynamic.

For the Indian scriptural tradition, although there is no explicit literary teaching as to whether or not brahman is dynamic, there is the affirmation that it is the key to the problem of the one and the many.

Not exact matches

Among those gathered here in her modem voice (through scriptural images, verbal echoes, parallel situations) are women whose stories have been muffled in the Bible's tradition — Hagar, Bilhah, Zilpah, Mary, the Lord's «handmaiden,» Sarah, Rachel, Leah, Rebekkah, Ruth, Puah and Shiphrah (the Hebrew midwives in Egypt), Jael, Jephthah's daughter, the «Jezebel» of Revelation, and other, unnamed ancestresses, «missing persons without textual authority.

The two notes of individuality defined in a social world and action or embodied belief, which we saw are characteristic of Scriptural stories, are also, according to Auerbach, the central qualities of the Western literary tradition.

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.

So long as the Church was understood as primarily institutional, in terms of its parallelism to a state rather than to a cultural society, and so long as tradition meant resistance to reform, conflict between the principles of traditional and Scriptural authority was inevitable.

Also the tradition of scriptural interpretation in the ancient Syrian church bears the mark of Jewish interpretation.

But experiencing the self - revealing God is not simply a matter of looking at the scriptural and doctrinal boundaries laboriously established by the Church and its traditions.

I think the important thing is to teach people the difference between what's scriptural, what's «required» by God, and what is just tradition.

I think one part of this came out of the strict religious traditions that highlighted hypocrisy, exhibited pride in self - ability to carry out religious ordinances or «procedures», and were founded in mere tradition rather than from some higher power or actual scriptural foundation.

Further, the texts Bates helps us penetrate afresh need — as do all Scriptural texts — to be repeatedly pondered; and for this task, the concepts, distinctions and guidelines offered by the dogmatic Tradition can help.

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.

Certainly the principle «treat every human humanely», which is really the Golden Rule, can be found in most faith traditions, although the scriptural or theological support for this statement will be particular to each faith.

Doc Vestibule, if you are interested in researching the traditions of scriptural hermeneutics, which includes how to understand them allegorically, literally, anagogically, historically, etc. and when / how to apply these methods of hermeneutics, I encourage you to find someone with a degree from the seminary — preferably from one of the orthodox traditions.

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

Yet the Reformers combined this radical freedom with the insistence that the new life is lived in the community of the church with its tradition, its scriptural authority and the celebration of the sacraments, for now the church is known as the community which God creates by his grace.

Such egregious mistranslations, Neuhaus grandly concludes, demonstrate that the translators are «indifferent» to the great traditions of the Bible in English, the history of scriptural interpretation in the Church, and to good English usage.

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.

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.

Two traditions governed rabbinic thought and Scriptural commentary there - the schools of Hillel and Simon.

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 the next article in this issue Fr Nesbitt looks at the presentation of this theme in Catholic tradition and its scriptural foundation.

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature edited by David Lyle Jeffrey Eerdmans, 960 pages, $ 80 A mammoth new reference work, certain to be a standard and invaluable resource, this «dictionary» contains hundreds of articles on biblical figures, motifs, concepts, quotations, and allusions» both in their scriptural context and as they have been used and understood by English - speaking writers and scholars since the Middle Ages.

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.

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.