Sentences with phrase «which biblical authors»

If we want to believe and understand what these authors are saying, then to some degree, we must also believe and understand the extra-biblical beliefs, traditions, and customs which the biblical authors mention.

Not exact matches

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

Evolution and the Fall is a collection of essays from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group of authors, which sets out to address «a set of problems that arise from the encounter of traditional biblical views of human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.

Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»

John Partington, author of The Happiness Factor (New Wine Press) and national leader of the UK's Assemblies of God group of churches, says happiness (which is referred to around 30 times in the Bible) and joy (which gets 300 mentions) are separate biblical entities.

Daniel Fuller believes that in non-revelatory matters, there is «error» in the Biblical text which was included deliberately by the authors in order to communicate effectively with their readers.

In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey — award - winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, which was hailed as «lucid, compelling, and beautifully written» (Frank Viola, author of God's Favorite Place on Earth)-- helps us grapple with core Christian issues using a mixture of beautiful storytelling and biblical teaching, a style well described as «narrative theology.»

Popular preacher and author Joyce Meyer recently preached a message in which she made the biblical case...

Most of the writings about the kingdom of late are of an academic nature, trying to discern from the biblical foundations a view which the author regards as the true one.

I am quite conservative myself, but think of the inspiration of God as something closer to the whisperings of God, which He does not only upon biblical authors, but upon many others as well.

God's Word, which he spoke to the Biblical authors was perfect

(3:5) But, as the biblical author points out, with irony, their eyes were opened instead to the knowledge of their nakedness, which now becomes a source of shame and distress.

In biblical studies this method of retrieval is exemplified in the historico - critical method which attempts to reconstruct the original setting of the text and the meaning of the author.

A number of authors have made use of process categories in the expression of Christian theology.23 The process model leads to an emphasis on certain biblical themes which were minimized in later Christian thought, such as God's participation in temporal process and the vulnerability of suffering love.

[109] Biblical scholar F. F. Bruce has said «the evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of cla ssical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning... It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians.»

Equally puzzling is the inclusion of Edmund Leach's essay «Fishing for Men on the Edge of the Wilderness,» which has little to recommend it but the author's eminence as perhaps the world's leading structural anthropologist — who here wishes to demonstrate that structuralism enables a style of biblical exegesis not unlike «the typological style of argument employed by the majority of early Christian writers.»

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.