Sentences with phrase «traditional biblical understanding»

Speaking in response to the Scottish Episcopal Church's decision to allow gay marriages, a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland told the Belfast Telegraph: «Many people in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland will be deeply saddened at this week's developments in Scotland, which seems so obviously at variance with the traditional biblical understanding of marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Not exact matches

But I pointed out that there was new evidence — from biblical studies and from various empirical studies in the human sciences, especially psychology and sociology — that completely undermined the traditional understanding of homosexuality as a chosen and changeable state.

Not understanding the necessary interworking of traditional, Biblical, and contemporary sources (even in a theology that seeks Biblical authority as its ultimate norm), certain evangelicals have fallen prey to a new form of «traditionalism»; others have retreated to a «Biblicism»; still others have found themselves in theological bondage to contemporary standards.

First: traditional understanding, which is seemingly closer to the literal meaning of the word, i.e., proclamation of the Biblical good news (= euanggelion), witnessing, soul - winning, bringing people to Christ, propagation of Christian...

While I know that my proposal wreaks havoc on many traditional ways of reading some biblical passages, please know that just as with Romans 8:34, I am aware of these texts and simply understand them in a different light — in the light of the love and beauty of the crucified Christ.

The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God.

We are unafraid to question traditional church teaching; we value contemporary thought and recent biblical understanding.