Sentences with phrase «true historical understanding»

This is the way to a true historical understanding and it is a major protection against the ever - prevalent danger of eisegesis.

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It rested upon a true, if in some respects limited, understanding of the two testaments in their historical relations.

To understand how the Bible is true, therefore, we must understand its genres, recognize its attitudes toward the reporting of historical details, and consider the social context in which it was written.

is presented as the true resolution of a contradiction in Eliade's understanding — a contradiction deriving from an only partially dialectical understanding of Christianity in Eliade, the latter arising from the nondialectical ground of the historical expressions of Christian theology.

They may perfectly well be the immediate subject matters of inquiries that lead to truer historical or psychological or sociological understanding with no necessary bearing on understanding God.

There can be no true religious or devotional or theological understanding of the Bible which is not also historical understanding.

Even if it is true, finally, that the text accomplishes its meaning only in personal appropriation, in the «historical» decision (and this I believe strongly with Bultmann against all the current philosophies of a discourse without the subject), this appropriation is only the final stage, the last threshold of an understanding which has first been uprooted and moved into another meaning.

With phenomenal sensitivity and what we may describe only as inspired judgment, he extracts from Israel's total heritage her truest and most enduring insights, the unique qualities of her understanding of history, and the essence of her historical faith.

But if this need for revaluation is true of religion, it is even more so of education, and few have understood it as well, or illustrated it with such a commanding historical sweep, as did Alfred North Whitehead.

A true instinct led Barth to stand aside from an historical understanding of the Bible, but a deeper instinct will lead theology to say no to Barth.

To be true to the Incarnational Principle expressed by Pius XII we must seek to understand the meaning of the texts in their historical, cultural context.

Thus, we come to the unbridgeable gap between the New Testament theologian and the theistic existentialist, and we find that it is an old issue returning in a new form: is the historical Jesus necessarily anything more than an example we seek to imitate in his worship of the Father (Harnack) or in his breakthrough to true existential self - understanding (Jaspers)?

True, it tends to ask rather different questions, such as those concerning the understanding of existence implicit in Jesus» teaching, but its work is still based on exactly the same kind of historical - critical methodology as that used by Bultmann or Jeremias.

The lesson follows a clear and logical learning journey, involving progressively more challenging tasks in which students: - Portray their understanding of witches and witchcraft; - Learn more about witches in a historical context through a fun «true or false» game; - Define, identify, and understand dramatic irony; - Read sections of Macbeth and complete tasks to demonstrate their understanding; - Answer key questions about the witches that test their knowledge in relation to each of the English assessment outcomes; - Evaluate a modelled example of an analytical paragraph in relation to the witches; - Analyse the witches» characteristics in their own responses; - Evaluate each others» analytical responses.