Sentences with phrase «when biblical scholarship»

It is a bit ironic that increased attention is being paid to the biblical theme of covenant just at a time when biblical scholarship is moving on to other constructs for interpretation.

Not exact matches

The Church's Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus by Brevard S. Childs Eerdmans, 288 pages, $ 28 paper When the history of biblical scholarship for the twentieth century is written, a prominent spot will be given to Brevard Childs.

Point being, here's the far left fringe of biblical scholarship — and you regard him as winking at your position (when he's giving a scathing treatment of it).

That's exactly what I tried to do about two years ago when, despite some serious trepidation, I decided to learn all I could about the science behind evolutionary theory and the biblical scholarship surrounding interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2.

For example, when Berger points out that the puzzles of historical scholarship often lead Biblical theologians to crises of faith he expresses it this way: «I have sometimes asked myself how a gynecologist could manage to have sexual intercourse; by the same token, one could ask how a New Testament scholar could be a Christian.»

When a man with no biblical training whatsoever is considered more qualified to teach than a woman with a PhD in theology or a woman whose work in New Testament scholarship is renowned the world over, we are not seeing complementariaism at work, but patriarchy.

The time has passed when we could live in the illusion that biblical scholarship is scientific and hence non-theological.

Perhaps the author is better when it comes to biblical scholarship and you should stick to your own area that you're better at, which is something else.