Sentences with phrase «theological meaning of the book»

Her earliest work on the relationship between ritual purity and holiness, and her later work on the true literary and theological meaning of the Book of Leviticus do much to counter the neo - Freudian view that Judeo - Christianity is based on a primitive, superstitious, patriarchal, taboo ridden ideology.

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This means that the reader can be assured that the book is pure of sectarian or theological contamination as it follows the by - now quaint - sounding criteria of a history objective and scientific.

The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.

Although there are various articles and books showing what I have called systematic theological concerns, philosophical criteria are used, usually exclusively, when dealing with questions of meaning and truth, criteria which are respectable in the academy.3 Process Christology, for example, usually follows Schleiermacher, and tends as a result to be embarrassed by strong exclusivist claims.

Steve... whatever our position is with respect to the book, does that mean the end of knowledge be it biological, geological, cosmological and even theological?

The latter part of the book provides sustained theological reflection on what Christians mean when they talk about God's providence.

For, the first chapters of the Book of Genesis were never meant to be taken as history or science, as «eyewitness» accounts, either of God or of someone impossibly «interviewing» God, but as a spiritual, theological, and mystical statement about God's relationship with the world; as an «aetiological myth,» to use Rahner's phrase, that provides an explanation, based on the human author's contemporary experience, of how things must have gotten to be the way we see them.