Sentences with phrase «theological interpretation»

If you are looking to learn more about theological interpretation of Scripture, this is the book to start with.

It seems to me to be a definite divide in theological interpretation.

He has other objections of this same sort to traditional theological interpretations — objections with which one must have a large measure of agreement.

The book moves back and forth between accounts of meetings and chronological detail to a kind of theological interpretation grounded in the Christian language of death and new life.

Hence there is a truth even in primitive theological interpretations which may be needed to complete the more «scientific» current explanations.

Recently Western modern theologies heavily dependent upon modern philosophical (epistemological or other) concepts for theological interpretations; and this trend, too, neglected the religio - cultural and intellectual life of Asian peoples for theology, while claiming universality of Western theologies.

As in our discussions of change and of dependence, so with order it is important to note that from our point of view the significant thing religiously is the experience from which the various theological interpretations arise and not the various forms of interpretation themselves.

[1] «Ratzinger, J Jesus of Nazareth, xxiii, «I have merely tried to go beyond purely historical - critical exegesis so as to apply new methodological insights that allow us to offer a properly theological interpretation of the Bible».

Although Wacker does not attempt to offer theological interpretations of the Pentecostal movement, there are moments when he allows himself to engage in informal theological musing.

As far as it being condemned by God, you can see some of my earlier posts where we talked about there being legitimate theological interpretations of Scripture that allow for loving, committed gay relationships.

All these were done in the context of the political and cultural impact of the West on India and contained theological interpretations of that impact.

While the Holy Father's study presupposes historical - critical exegesis and makes use of its discoveries, «it seeks to transcend this method and to arrive at a genuinely theological interpretation of the scriptural text» (p. 295).

As I've worked my way through Scripture, I've come to realize how horribly I misjudged God when I assumed that certain theological interpretations of Him defined Him.

We need further theological interpretation of the biblical witness to Jesus» suffering and death as revelation of God's suffering love.

Collectively they raise the issue of theological interpretation among evangelicals.

Childs works through the text without ducking any of the difficult problems it presents and offers suggestive theological interpretations.

Over the last several generations an earlier political reading of the City of God has given way to a more overtly theological interpretation.

There are many theological interpretations of the atonement, but Christian sources consistently affirm the centrality of the death of Jesus on the cross.

What is needed is a Catholic theological interpretation of modern pluralistic democracy, one that insists on real space for the ideas and active contributions of religious traditions, while underscoring the value of respectful argument and even friendship among those who hold competing views.

In language which appears strikingly to give ultimate theological interpretation to the Joseph story, we read:

J. P. Gabler first clearly differentiated historically oriented theological interpretation of the Old Testament from the dogmatic enterprise of church teachings in his famous 1787 inaugural address at the University of Altdorf.

In light of these interpretations, the practical theology of «postliberal» Christianity has to do one of two things: either a) show the falsity or at least inadequacy of nonbiblical explanations and interpretations of events or b) become explicit about the relationships between the biblical theological interpretations of the events to those which are not explicitly biblical.

(for a summary of recent theological interpretations of eschatology, see Zachary Hayes, Visions of a Future [Wilmington: Michael Glazier, Inc. 1989]-RRB- The notion of revelation, we shall be emphasizing, needs now to be grasped again in its profoundly eschatological nature.

Stephen Fowl is professor of theology at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland, and coauthor of Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation.

It is whether such accounts, revisable as they are, require changes in traditional theological interpretations of human «nature» and activity.

You might consider writing additional posts on similar passages, not necessarily those where people love to wrangle over various theological interpretations, but passages similar to this one, passages that seem to say something much different than what they really say.

«Without a sense of the religious event - character of proclamation, the New Testament itself ceases to be a religious classic open to properly theological interpretation and lives on in memory, if at all, as literature» (275).

Nowhere in his discussion of ancient Israel or early Christianity does Greenberg deal with theological interpretations of scripture in those traditions.

I have always thought that this theological interpretation of Pentecostalism did not have much going for it and I'm glad that Hailemariam adds another piece of evidence against it.

Lüdemann [Jesus, 9] affirms the historicity of Jesus being baptized by John, but does not trace the theological interpretations back beyond the post-Easter community:

The act of Bible translation is theological interpretation.

As we look at this mysterious encounter between persons, we ask how the theological interpretation of that relationship differs from the purely psychological one.

The material on the basis of which a theological interpretation shall be proffered, of the world, man, the truth, and of salvation — of God and His dealings with His world — is to be the material that the study of the history of religion provides».

Hence his «theology,» so far as he has a theology, is not his own, but merely the theological interpretation — as far as it had gone in his day — of the tradition as held by the contemporary church.