Discernment of its meaning in the context of
the whole biblical story must come; this is the significance of the exposition of the Bible along the way.
Not exact matches
I suggest that the
whole biblical narrative, including Jesus, as well as all subsequent theology, is one vast
story illustrating the simple fact that, in the end, we are all one, connected to each other and to our common Ground of Being.
According to the
biblical story of the Flood, it was not individuals who were wicked; it was humanity as a
whole, a wickedness encoded in humanity's very nature.
Once we are eating
biblical books
whole, we'll be in a position to understand how the books come together to tell the great
story of God, the defeat of sin and death, and the renewal of the world.
This is a great way to bring children into the spirit of the Advent season through
biblical stories and images, and Ann Voskamp has quite a few resources for doing this well: The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love
Story of Christmas, Unwrapping the Greatest Gift: A Family Celebration of Christmas, and a
whole Web site full of FREE printable ornaments, coloring pages, cards, gift tags, etc..
I wish now to give an account, inadequate because of necessary brevity, of what the
biblical story as a
whole has to tell us.
In the words of Richard Bauckham, the
biblical story is about nothing less than the
whole of reality, and thus it can not be «reduced to an unpretentious local language game in the pluralism of postmodernity.»
Drawing from the
biblical story of Jonah and the Whale — in which the prophet's resolve and message is galvanized whilst he meditates within the dark body of the great beast that has swallowed him
whole — this group exhibition brings together artworks and objects to trace various transformations of meaning, reception, and use over time.