Sentences with phrase «using biblical ideas»

Just using biblical ideas and terminology here, so if my language is gutter language, then so is the Bible.

Not exact matches

Yet the early Church itself, when it departed from biblical idiom at the Council of Nicea and used for theological purposes a non-biblical word, homo - ousion, as the guarantor of true biblical meaning, gave Christians in later days a charter for translation — provided always that it is the gospel, its setting and its significance, that we are translating, and not some bright and novel ideas of our own.

The alternative method, often used by scholars, considers one epoch of Biblical religion at a time, presenting the entire complex of ideas which characterized that era, and then moves on to study the next succeeding epoch as a whole.

In interpreting his biblical texts Bultmann made use of these ideas with a vigor which promises that his basic principles of interpretation may survive, still seem valid, when the misty vocabulary of Heidegger's early philosophy no longer seems compelling.

We will discuss this concept of being «dead» in future posts, and especially the biblical texts which are used to support this idea (which is based not on Scripture, but on Greek philosophy and fatalism).

One to one is much more gentle, but the same biblical ideas are used.

Timpson follows Pope John Paul II in using the story of Tobit as a biblical base for his argument, but does not discuss the Pope's theology of the body with its rich idea of sexuality as a gift.

Scripture was used to support the idea of a God of absolute power, thereby obscuring the biblical conception of a God of infinite love whose power was manifest in his suffering and humiliation in Jesus Christ.

It's sort of ironic that I am going to use Scripture to defend the idea that biblical illiteracy is not a problem...

The Biblical gospel has burst the bonds even of classical mythology, as may be seen from what happened to the idea of the Logos; but it has done so only by first taking that mythology up and using it.

So yes, we do have biblical support for the idea that God sometimes uses relics of his Saints to convey His healing power.

That is, universal sinfulness is a biblical idea, but the way Calvinists use this idea to form other doctrines causes me to reject total depravity as Calvinists understand and define it.

A global Iriai is deeply poetic in comparison, it conjures the biblical idea of a stewardship of nature — but using the most modern ideas, methods and technologies.