Sentences with phrase «study a text from»

Also useful are faculty seminars that encourage small groups to study a text from another religious tradition, or a current social issue, or a current American religious practice in such a way that transcends specialized fields.

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Research about how interruptions from technology affect people's well - being is beginning to emerge: One study of college students found a link between excessive texting and diminished well - being.

In one example, SAS studied transactions of customers and text transcripts from call centres of a financial services provider, then looked at what individuals said about the firm through social media.

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The Mormon then takes the crap pieces from the toilet and studies them in a special baseball cap made of yak pubes, and quotes the text from the crap pieces to another who writes them down on legal note pads.

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.

It had the text of Scripture, which was a loose translation (almost a paraphrase) from the Hebrew into Aramaic, and just like our study Bibles, it had explanatory notes that went along with the text.

• that the process of developing a sermon extends over enough time to allow for careful study of the text (s), theological reflection beyond the text (s), and direct influence from the life of the world and from the life of the congregation.

In the end, the author believes that the Enlightenment thinkers developed a «theological» model, even though he completes this exhaustive study by citing a grim text from one of Nietzsche's «Letters» that sounds anything but theological: ««The family will be slowly ground into a random collection of individuals,» haphazardly bound together «in the common pursuit of selfish ends.

RD said: «It is eisegesis to impose your own views into the text rather than study it and draw meaning from the text.»

Then, once you have a basic idea simply from reading through and praying over the text, if you want, you can start consulting some of Bible study guides which are available.

Those who have had basic courses in the biblical languages and are willing to devote 20 minutes a day to such language study should gain enough language ability to base their sermon text study on the original text, and they should have enough linguistic skill to use the best of the great philological commentaries, which often cite words from the original languages.

The remainder of the book (chapters 4 — 7) provide a detailed explanation of how to study and teach the texts of the General Epistles, beginning with interpreting them from the Greek and moving on into exegetical outlines and homiletical exposition.

The following study of Galatians 1:8 - 9 is drawn from my Gospel Dictionary Online Course, which defines 52 key words of the Gospel, and considers hundreds of texts from the Bible related to these key terms.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

The emphasis shifted from the oral study of literary texts to the performative dimensions of human communication in culture.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

It allowed me to reconceptualize the study of «women in the Bible,» by moving from what men have said about women to a feminist historical reconstruction of early Christian origins as well as by articulating a feminist critical process for reading and evaluating androcentric biblical texts.

A friend from Bible study recently told me: «You can text me any time of night and I will pray for you.»

«The importance of studying parallels lies in providing a check against isolating the Hebrew prophet from his specific historical context as if his text represented a timeless religious literature that floated above all historical particularity,» he writes.

There is nothing that will steal the life from your sermon faster than when you rely on commentaries and Bible study resources to tell you what the text means.

To the student who has perhaps come to these writings from studies in folklore or fairy tales and who is now «disillusioned» by their long - windedness, we might say that no religious text is easy and entertaining reading.

Now sometimes, the actions or attitude of the audience will not be very clear from the text, and so you may have to get into other Bible study tools to help.

Once I had gathered this important information from a study of the context of the passage, I was better able to serve the occasion of reading the text in the conference setting.

Find some way of writing or recording the ways the text affects you as you begin to read and study it, even if at first you do not receive much from it!

The story of the flight into Egypt by Joseph, Mary and the infant Jesus may have originated as a midrash inspired from the text by Hosea, «1 called my son out of Egypt».11 If the story of the burial by Joseph of Arimathea owes anything at all to the influence of such a verse as Isaiah 53:9, then it would be a further example of the midrashic study of the Bible as a method of answering current problems.

The material reproduced is a conflation of several different seminars on the same text, drawn both from those in which I participated at the Guild for Psychological Studies and from my own classes.

Join us as we study preassigned readings from classic Western Civilization texts in small - group seminars limited to 15 participants per group, with discussion facilitated by faculty members from Northeast Catholic College.

In the first place, the route from exegesis to preaching is made unnecessarily difficult in traditional practice by a radical reversal of the mental processes in the transition from the study of the text to the structuring of the sermon itself.

When David Landry listens in early morning solitude in the privacy of his study for the dawning of meaning from a scriptural text, he knows he is even then listening in solidarity with his congregation.

I don't understand how these «believers» say that they studied the bible from front to cover to find out the date of «doomsday», when the same text says that not even the angels in heaven know the date!!..

Personally, I've spent more than 50 years reading, studying, memorizing, preaching, and teaching from the sacred texts.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

At mid-century, oral interpreters of the Bible followed the overall trend in the discipline and turned their attention away from the minister's problems with «delivery» to focus on the study of Biblical texts themselves:

Occasionally one hears about laymen being asked to study in advance the Scripture from which the text of the sermon is to be taken.

I think I will start to study Islam from its own core texts,» that's all I've accomplished.

I began studying Islam 16 + years ago, because with all the terrorism going on, I wanted REASSURANCE from authentic Islamic sources (their holy texts) that Islam really WAS a faith of peace and tolerance.

It is not the case that modern biblical study refrains from abstractions and remains intimately engaged with the biblical text.

It could be through a group's study of a passage of Scripture from which the text was to be selected.

Again, coming from a religious studies department at a secular university; if the Bible is not inspired by God, I can't trust it more than any other religious text (even if it has truth in it).

Hebrew language and literature, Jewish history, modern Jewish theology and philosophy, even undue absorption in the study of the biblical text — all are proscribed as evidence of defection from Torah - true Judaism.

As he studied the New Testament text, he changed from a fundamentalist to an evangelical and then to a liberal - critical Christian.

Luther's studies were becoming more exciting than ever, because he had time to start Greek, the original language of the Christian source texts and was dabbling in Hebrew the language of the Old Testament, getting to know at least the alphabet, and a few words, from Reuchlin's Rudiments which he already possessed.

(3) Patristic quotations are not always absolutely reliable: (a) the Church Father may have been quoting not from a text but from memory; (b) he may have used more than one manuscript; (c) his own works may not have been correctly transmitted; study of their manuscript tradition is required.

However, with up to date curriculum in place, you can not use the same text book for your younger child that your elder child studied from, since the information is updated in each edition.

Weighted averages of cases shown to respond to eliminating cow's milk or multiple allergenic foods from the diet, taken from multiple studies (presented in the text of Baby Matters).

That study found that more than 50 percent of university students were already experiencing muskoskeletal discomfort from typing on computers, texting and using tablets at improper angles.

A 2015 study published in the journal Muscle & Nerve found that by the time kids enter college, those who've used smartphones for years have already experienced impaired hand function, thumb pain and other repetitive strains from all of that texting, swiping and scrolling.

They might choose regular text books from big educational bookshops if they want to study academics, and follow their children's interests.

The more I read, the more I became aware that education is far more than studying from text books.