Sentences with phrase «shaped biblical history»

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Because the Bible is the most effective force in history for lifting women to higher levels of respect, dignity, and freedom, we join an historic succession of women whose Christian faith is forged from biblical truth and whose lives are shaped into Christ's image on the anvil of obedience.

We recognize that some societies and cultures have unjustly limited women's full participation, but biblical, church, and secular history record countless women of vision and tenacious faith who, through prayer and perseverance, overcame limitations of every variety to influence the shaping of human history.

The Church's Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus by Brevard S. Childs Eerdmans, 288 pages, $ 28 paper When the history of biblical scholarship for the twentieth century is written, a prominent spot will be given to Brevard Childs.

That divinity is given a particular shape and history by the biblical drama, conceived in orthodoxy as enacted by a single God in three persons.

Charles J. Chaput's declaration that the United States» formation «presumes a moral architecture shaped deeply by biblical thought» is vindicated by any study of legislative history.

Obviously, our formal understanding of these four circles that make up our situation will already have been shaped to a great extent by a history and tradition influenced by the classic texts and events associated with the biblical revelation.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.