Sentences with phrase «way of reading these passages»

One of the leading proponents of this alternate way of reading these passages is one of my favorite Bible scholars: N. T. Wright.

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Bible Studies, Priests reading passages or directing you to specific cherry - picked passages, Sunday School, Bible School, and so on — these are not the best ways to read the Bible — these are forms of indoctrination, not enlightenment.

Julie - I was especially encouraged and thought of you while reading a particular passage because it is about the story of a woman who was assaulted and not believed... and then about the way that it was necessary for there to be a public forum where she could claim and own her experience.

Just as St. Paul's letters gave early Christian commentators examples of how to interpret the Old Testament in light of Christ, so the Church Fathers stretch our exegetical imagination by showing how other passages can be read in that way.

If you compared my writing from ten years ago with the writing I do today, I use different terminology, different approaches to proving my point, different vocabulary, and I even have different theological beliefs, supported by reading passages of Scripture in different ways, all to accomplish different goals in the minds and hearts of those who read.

But along with the praise, Wilson offers insights about the reasons these books are powerful: Lewis's generosity toward the authors he discusses, the way he finds passages that make them seem interesting; his sense of «wonder and enjoyment» in all he reads; his willingness to take up the great themes that engaged his authors, to put to work in criticism his «creative intelligence.»

The way to interpret Scripture is to compare it with other passages of Scripture, and read it in context with the rest of the Bible.

We have no way of knowing whether Jesus during his hidden years had read these intertestamental writings, especially the passages in the Similitudes of Enoch.

While I know that my proposal wreaks havoc on many traditional ways of reading some biblical passages, please know that just as with Romans 8:34, I am aware of these texts and simply understand them in a different light — in the light of the love and beauty of the crucified Christ.

It's been a joy to hear from women who read A Year of Biblical Womanhood and report that where they once hated Proverbs 31, it's now one of their favorite passages because it provides a fun way to celebrate all those daily acts of faithfulness exhibited by the women in their lives.

The only way to catch the full majesty of such passages is to read some of them; as, for example, chapters 40, 42:1 - 9, 51, 55, 60, 61, 65:17 - 25.

If we are honest, blue parakeet passages often threaten us, call into question our traditional way of reading the Bible, and summon us back to the Bible to rethink how we read the Bible.»

fishon, I don't take passages about «sexual immorality» that way and don't mind at all them being read or preached, but my experience is that preachers name homosexuality specifically and teach things that not only are (in my opinion) and poor interpretation of the Bible, but also things that could have no Biblical basis of support.

I propose to show that Popper leapt to this conclusion a bit too hastily; for the passage he quotes by way of illustration does not permit an unequivocal reading.

But just in case you haven't had a chance to read The Open - Hearted Way To Open Adoption yet, here's a cheat sheet of some of the key passages about navigating an open adoption relationship.

At a climactic concert at a party, rows of listeners can be seen gliding off in separate directions as if on separate mind journeys, and in a much earlier surreal sequence featuring newsreel war footage in a cafe, the narrator, reading a letter, can be seen rising with his chair like a film director seated on a crane, all the way to the top of the room, where he encounters his own childhood self running a projector — an image that might be traced, like much else, to one of Proust's extended descriptive passages.

That kind of talk goes «a long way toward explaining why No Child Left Behind has not worked,» she says, overlooking the fact that gains in math and reading since its passage have amounted to 8 percent of a standard deviation, with even larger gains among minority students (see «Grinding the Antitesting Ax,» check the facts, Spring 2012).

It was in some way typical of the sanitized, vacuous reading passages that often appear on standardized tests, which explains how it got past the test review panels that approve test content.

If you hate reading or really can't stand the thought of sitting down and reading passage after passage of information in which you have zero interest, then this is a quick, easy way to work on your skills without even knowing you're doing it.

For instance, a test might ask students to identify the theme of a fairy tale by reading several different passages and posing the question in several different ways, to make sure students have not just mastered the art of test - taking.

Describing her performance as a «vertical reading» of Johnson's novel, Gibson and her two fellow performers added further discord by reading the passages out loud at the same time — as a way of expressing this textual simultaneity in sound.

From the way his passage reads in his 1992 «Earth in the Balance» book about the memos, you'd think he was the one revealing all of this for the first time: