Sentences with phrase «scriptures out of content»

Taking the scriptures out of content we live by the Golden Rule and we fall short of that.

Not exact matches

My reflections arose, as I have indicated, in part from formative books and teachers, but they also grew out of grappling with Scripture (one of the lightning bolts here was the simple but profound insight of realizing once again the ineradicable connection of form and content — for instance, what is said in a parable can not be said in any other way), and with the complex business, endemic to academic theologians, of, as Kierkegaard would put it, becoming a Christian (not in general or for someone else but in particular and for me).

What's worth pointing out, though, is that Scripture itself is full of disturbing content, and that it uses such content to instruct and illuminate.