Sentences with phrase «use of scripture»

I love the use of Scripture and it's such a wonderful reminder to have around the house.

Christian anger management counseling utilizes the support and guidance of Christ through use of scripture, prayer, and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

She is experienced in the use of Scripture and prayer for those interested in Christian - based counseling.

Sacks closely examines and repudiates the use of scripture by Jews, Christians, and Muslims to perpetuate an us - them dualism and legitimize terrorist attacks on peacefully multicultural societies.

If your use of Scripture does not fall within the Gratis Use Guidelines listed below, written permission is required and you will need to submit a formal request.

His independent use of Scripture was a part of the contrast between his teaching and that of the scribes.

But greater use of scripture has brought its own problems which an honest advocate for it should frankly acknowledge.

Something more does have to be said about the use of scripture in moral theology, however, because it is not always clear that moral theology is actually part of theology.

Systematic exposition can not get over this problem by simply relegating the use of scripture to «proof texts» if it is to be academically respectable.

Furthermore, the Catholic emphasis on the role of natural law does nothing to dispel the idea that too much use of scripture in moral argument can be inappropriate or impolitic because it can make universal truths seem to be based only upon specific revelation.

Accepting, then, that the use of scripture in moral theology is not easy, and that Pauline scholarship is especially fraught, one might reasonably ask, why bother at all?

Downing's examples include: the Church's stubborn marriage to geocentricism, the brutal persecution of the Anabaptists by Protestants for believing that confession should precede baptism, the use of Scripture to support owning slaves and marginalizing women.

Twice therein occurs the statement, «Any certain extent of academic education shall never be a requirement for credentials...» (22) While there is always more to learn for any student of Scripture, however brilliant or trained, I am not at all prepared to say that such simple pietistic use of Scripture is defective; it is not so much wrong as limited.

(I'm thinking of the Crusades, the Inquisition, geocentricism, the persecution of the Anabaptists, the use of Scripture to defend slave ownership and segregation, young earth creationism, etc..)

The epistemological use of Scripture as criterion is in this canonical perspective secondary.

almost as common as selective use of Scripture.

Thus a double subjectivity is bound up with the soteric use of Scripture: God the subject by the power of the Holy Spirit present in the believer's subjectivity of encounter.

Kelsey comments, given the multiple use of Scripture to authorize a theological proposal, we must conclude that Scripture is only indirectly the authorizing agent.

I must earnestly disagree with you in your use of scripture to attempt to prove that God is not specially present with His people during public worship.

What I am against is the use of Scripture as a defense for the practice, especially when these passages are used to lay burdens of guilt on others if they don't give more, tithe more, and «joyfully» sacrifice more.

And underlying all of these questions: What is the proper understanding and use of scripture in answering these questions?

I find it interesting that you are against the use of scripture for the defense of the practice of pastors on salary.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church makes widespread use of scripture.

Without saying that it is particular religious acts or practices, such as prayer or the use of Scripture for guidance, that make one's function pastoral, I believe that a case can be made for an identifiable pastoral function as well as a pastoral way of thinking about that function.

The distinction between arbitrary and magisterial use of scripture is not explained.

Obviously the next step in our consideration must be in the direction of a use of Scripture that is supportive of the thesis regarding inductive movement and yet a use which does not violate the honest exegesis which the text demands as the Scripture of the Church.

They say that the devil can quote scripture and no more proof is needed than the use of scripture as attack against the LGBT community.

Thirdly, and in this same vein, there are two forms of seduction in a homiletical use of Scripture to which one may fall victim.

Is there a flaw here in one's use of Scripture or is it in the nature of Biblical materials that singleness of theme can be achieved only by their violation?

First, the fact that they are only «attempts», and some of them not very helpful to the preacher, is a clear reminder that the use of Scripture by the Church in her evangelism, polemics, and instruction is a most difficult problem.

A good read that has been helpful to me is Why Not Women by Bruce Hamilton and Loren Cunningham which deals with the modern church backwardness toward women and their use of scripture to try and maintain male power structures and eliminate feminine influence.

I am appreiciate your understanding and use of scripture.

You echo many of the same concerns that I have had in regard to the use of scripture — especially in relation to Hebrew and Greek.

Her discussion of how the Gospels» narratives provide a template for understanding the relations among the persons of the Trinity is brilliant: a model for the theological use of Scripture.

Here we find a detailed and exhaustive introduction to the use of Scripture by our present pope.

Examining the successful use of Scripture on the part of Bill Clinton and George Bush, and the unsuccessful use by Joe Lieberman and John Kerry ¯ not to mention Howard Dean's absurd excursion into the New Testament book of Job ¯ Berlinerblau demonstrates that biblical citations are most effective in American political rhetoric when they are (1) sparse, (2) positive, (3) vague, (4) shallow, and (5) veiled.

If this is so, how will this effect your conversations with other people and especially your use of Scripture in those conversations?

The close attention to such parish features as ritual process and the use of Scripture encouraged in my courses does indeed help forge links to other religions, but studying the congregation because it provides a rationale for courses in other faiths remains only a part of the reason for my interest.

In a recent study» of the evangelical impact on the Victorians titled The Call to Seriousness, Ian Bradley contends that the decline of evangelicalism into narrow bigotry may be dated from about 1860 and correlated with the rise of a fascination with prophecy and a more literalistic use of the Scripture.

There isn't anything new under the sun, it's true, and the use of Scripture to silence the witness of women, to sideline the gifts of half the church, isn't new either.

Jeff wrote, «How unfortunate a use of the Scripture.

I know scripture and the Bible well but don't find it allways the best way to describe things because people can be turned off by the accusational use of scripture.

This means moreover that our reflection on and use of Scripture must also take their impetus and starting point from the forces that shape our consciousness.

The use of Scripture, however, is not a special property of professional interpreters; it is a function of the whole body of Christ.

When it comes to Judaism, one would think, judging from his use of Scripture as proof texts, traditional Jews simply read Scripture verbatim without coming to it and drawing normative conclusions from it through the lens of the Talmud.

Current claims for the impending end of history depend for their authorization on a highly selective use of Scripture.

It is perhaps ironic but nevertheless delightful that the Roman Catholic Church has done more to restore a balanced approach to the use of Scripture in worship than any other church since the Reformation.

It will be useful at the outset to distinguish two matters that the very title of this response tends confusingly to run together, viz., (1) «Hermeneutics,» in particular hermeneutics as shaped by commitments to the conceptuality and doctrines of process philosophy, and (2) the use of Scripture - as - interpreted in the course of doing theology.

In thousands of churches, games are played with the use of Scripture in worship.

The «Galileo affair» itself is notoriously complicated — as Brooke brings out — and Galileo's condemnation by Pope Urban VIII was in the main a reaction against his statements on the use of Scripture, more than his advocacy of Copernican astronomy.