Sentences with phrase «various biblical ways»

But if you have the Story firmly in your head, with a good grasp of various biblical ways of telling it, what you teach by opportunity will, over time, exhibit a visible coherence that it wouldn't otherwise have.

Not exact matches

My constant purpose was and is to adumbrate on every subject I handle a genuinely canonical interpretation of Scripture - a view that in its coherence embraces and expresses the thrust of all the biblical passages and units of thought that bear on my theme - a total, integrated view built out of biblical material in such a way that, if the writers of the various books knew what I had made of what they taught, they would nod their heads and say that I had got them right.

One of the best ways of learning what the Bible means is by studying the historical and cultural background of the various Biblical books.

After showing how this has happened in various «myths,» Girard turns to some biblical accounts to show how the skapegoating mechanism is revealed in Scripture as well, but in a way that turns the mechanism upside down and reveals what is truly going on behind the scenes.

With respect also to earlier Christian thinkers and their various statements, there is Hodgson's further remark — which those of us who were his students vividly recall — that we must always ask something like this: «What must the truth be for us now, if people like that» — he was referring both to biblical writers and theologians in the past history of the Church --» «put it in the way they did?»

The most I have allowed myself by way of contemporary application is to comment at various points on which of our current attitudes and policies seem compatible with the biblical view under consideration, and which do not.

Part of this as well, is the illumination of the Spirit helping you to understand God and extrapolate Biblical principles into the various issues life throws you way.

Central to this «forming» are the various ways in which biblical writings are used in the community's common life.

This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.

This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.

This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.

This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.