Sentences with phrase «texts of scripture»

The flood event in Genesis 6 - 8 is one example of how Greg Boyd deals with the violent texts of Scripture.

He continued to feed on the great texts of scripture and on the Psalms as they were chanted in the choir, first one side then the other, when he was able to find time to attend rather than reciting them privately late at night in his room.

Only then will be well prepared to begin looking at some of the violent texts of Scripture to see how they do not reveal a violent and bloody God, but a God that looks surprisingly like Jesus Christ.

After that, we will dive once more into several of the violent texts of Scripture to see how the violent portrayals of God in Scripture look just like Jesus on the cross.

We need the texts of Scripture to activate the questions, to generate the experience, in us.

Some modern readers may be vaguely disgruntled to find in Gregory only what their modern eyes perceive to be a naively unhistorical treatment of texts of scripture.

By «spoken word» we refer not only to the long oral tradition back of the texts of Scripture, but the word spoken in the proclamation of the church today.

For years together he was alternately haunted with texts of Scripture, now up and now down, but at last with an ever growing relief in his salvation through the blood of Christ.

the shift has been away from Freudian, Rogerian and Nietzschean values, especially individualistic selfactualization and narcissistic self - expression, and toward engendering durable habits of moral excellence and covenant community; methodologically away from modern culture - bound individuated experience and toward the shared public texts of Scripture and ecumenical tradition; politically away from trust in regulatory power and rationalistic planning to historical reasoning and a relatively greater critical trust in the responsible free interplay of interests in the marketplace of goods and ideas.

No political project is more urgent for society than the recovery of classic Christian consciousness through the direct address of texts of Scripture and tradition.

At some moment, generally identified with the enlightenment, Christians discovered that a distinction can be drawn between the texts of Scripture and the history behind it.

Some of these Christians who focus on the canon think historical - critical research is very helpful in strengthening our interpretation of the texts of Scripture.

These were usually texts of Scripture which, sometimes damnatory and sometimes favorable, would come in a half - hallucinatory form as if they were voices, and fasten on his mind and buffet it between them like a shuttlecock.

Precisely because there is filth in our own souls we come to the texts of scripture expecting to find the hidden things of our hearts laid bare and expecting to encounter there the God who loves us.

Irenacus did not blunt the hard texts of Scripture by moralisms and allegory, nor did he resort to the naivet6 of Pelagianism, imagining that the problems of sin and death can be overcome by good works.

In the past (and still in many churches today), some have sided with bloody nature and the stormy texts of Scripture and portrayed God has a God of wrath, judgment, vengeance, hate, and death.

I can't yet share what I think about these texts, but one thing I know for sure: We will never understand these troubling texts of Scripture, and we will never understand God, and we will never understand ourselves, unless and until we begin with the realization that Jesus does not drown babies.

It is only when we detach «texts of Scripture» that there are apparent contradictions in the sayings of Christ.

Anyway, I was compelled to adopt the Christus Victor view of the atonement and it has been running roughshod over much of my theology and changing the way I read many texts of Scripture, including this one...

Concerning the soul after death, the texts of the Scripture and the sayings of the Prophet say nothing except that the soul remains after death, either living in ease and comfort or in torment.

The very texts of Scripture were canonized by the authority of the Church.»

Teaching, on the other hand, is an interactive discussion with a group of believers about specific texts of Scripture, which are explained and applied within the group.

Starting soon we will begin looking at actual texts of Scripture.

Readers lay and scholarly recognize that the text of the Scriptures is polyvalent and....

Frankly, I am a little skeptical of some of the elements in these creeds since they were developed after Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire, and I fear that some of the statements of these creeds were politically motivated, and were heavily influenced by Roman Emperors, rather than by honestly dealing with the text of Scripture.

This setting also contained interactive questions and answers brought out by the text of Scripture.

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.

In theological studies, however, I frequently encounter people who read a text of Scripture that seems difficult to them and their preconceived ideas of what should be in the Bible, and when they read these troublesome texts, they jump straight to the conclusion that best fits their current theological system.

And why did the Church hold to positions such as dyothelitism — the teaching that the person of Jesus had two wills, one human and the other divine, which seemed alien to the simple text of Scripture?

The Jewish prisoners are honest with the text of Scripture.

The acclaimed book is written by Eugene Peterson, and puts the original text of scripture into contemporary language and has sold more than 16 million copies.

When we by contrast present Scripture in the first instance in terms of some particular theological framework or in the light of specialized or critical issues, we not only fail to address the questions that trouble us, but we may also place a barrier between the reader and the text of Scripture.

I have never been enamored with the process of historical criticism when it comes to the text of Scripture.

We must stay as close as possible to the text and reason it out guided by other text of scripture according to what is written and not according to some random explanation of men.

I have a hunch that one explanation accounts for the silence of evangelical biblical scholars more than any other: the basic fear that their findings, as they deal with the text of Scripture, will conflict with the popular understanding of what inerrancy entails.

At the other end of the evangelical spectrum from Lindsell and Schaeffer are those like Dewey Beegle and Stephen Davis who believe that one must admit there are errors in the text of Scripture, even in areas related to the author's intention.24 Such errors, however, do not involve any of the basics of the faith.

Since the Reformation, Protestants have zealously printed and guarded the text of scripture, and in their more iconoclastic traditions they have eschewed the use of images.

It is right that preachers be concerned that the Word of God not be hindered, but it is also right they understand that this hindrance may be caused not only by the mishandling of a text of Scripture but by a misreading of the situation of the congregation.

But the fact that it is a text of Scripture in the Church's proclamation means that an historical interpretation of a sermon of the past is incomplete.

In such situations, preaching has to address these easy assumptions and blind familiarities; the text of Scripture has to fight its way through the «almost Scripture» that is everywhere to be found and passes for Biblical support of custom and prejudice.

But Wink does not believe it worked, and we are now more separated from the text of Scripture than ever before.

We must now examine more closely the perspective in which Ricoeur carries on his project of opening the way for the text of Scripture to restore the «interval of interrogation» in which the question of faith can be heard.

But then they affirm that this inspiration, strictly speaking, applies only to the autographic text of Scripture.

The base software doesn't have some of the commentaries and popular Christians books that other software packages might have, but when it comes to doing primary research on the text of Scripture, there is no better software package available.

But actually requiring a dialogue, question and answer, interactive discussion about a text of Scripture, which then leads to brainstorming about how everybody can go out and put it into practice in tangible ways, and then actually going out and doing it, requires too much for most people.

If Jesus followed the pattern of other Rabbis at the time, He would have read a text of Scripture and then explained it in detail, while answering questions or objections from the other members of the synagogue (cf. Luke 4:17 - 27).

It appears that He, like many other Rabbis of His day, began His teaching by reading a text of Scripture, and would then explain the Scripture while taking questions and objections from others who were present.

The problem is, the translators have achieved this lucidity by changing the very text of scripture, by conflating the verse with the previous one (Leviticus 18:21) which is a condemnation of the practice of child sacrifice in the temple of Molech.

The spirit of openness to dialogue in frankness and fairness has been received with warm appreciation, as well as especially the emphasis on prayer with and for each other and the positive focus on ecumenical texts of the scriptures.

For before his divorce, he defined the regenerate soul as the one that has gained direct access to God's will as that will was attested in the text of Scripture.