Sentences with phrase «theology out of the text»

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There is so much theology that can be dug up out of the text if you try hard enough.

Several of us entered into a heated discussion with our visitor, out of which a relative consensus emerged: We do read the classic texts of Latin American theology (Gutiérrez, Boff, Segundo, Sobrino, Miguez Bonino and others), some of them for their historical importance, others for their continuing relevance.

The problem with theology is that people read back into the text the ideas that they have established out of the text.

What I didn't get round to doing when I set out: lots of exegesis, lots of historical theology, mastering the big texts of the traditions of the church.

As Gerhard von Rad has established in his great work, The Theology of the Old Testament, and principally in volume one, «The Theology of Traditions,» Israel essentially confessed God through the ordering of its sagas, traditions, and stories around a few kernel events from which meaning spread out through the whole structure.4 Von Rad believes he has discovered the most ancient kernel of the Hebraic Credo in a text such as Deut.

We may wish for inclusive language and may shy from such «moralizing» of the text, but coupled with Briscoe's lessons on theology and God's ways with people, such moral teaching does not seem out of place.