Sentences with phrase «understanding of a particular passage»

Because if I am wrong in my understanding of a particular passage, I want to know.

Not exact matches

However, the particular formulation of understanding that somehow links all these passages together into one «truth» statement frequently associated with the «rapture» was not evident in Christian community until about 160 years ago.

In the manner of Paul Ricoeur's attempt to show the relative adequacy of the Adamic myth of evil over the Orphic myth or of Reinhold Niebuhr's still masterful if methodologically muted attempt to show the relative adequacy of the Judeo - Christian understanding of historical passage, the contemporary revisionist theologian can find public ways to articulate the relative experiential adequacy of particular symbol systems.

He discusses language, style and arrangement of the Qur» an, as well as differences between the early (Meccan) and later (Medinan) revelations and the importance of the «occasions of revelation» for understanding particular passages.

Even more fundamental than the passage of a particular bill is the question of what, exactly, the «deeply concerned» Miller and his colleagues understand to be the policy problems involved in universities» treatment of postdocs.

Students read passages from Scott Anderson's «Fractured Lands» and analyze the characterization of Wakaz Hassan, a former ISIS fighter, in order to understand how authors illustrate the complexity of a particular topic.

Many teachers create cloze reading passages to assess student vocabulary understanding within a particular story or passage or a group of spelling words.