Sentences with phrase «with biblical witness»

The longing to move out of time (which involves change and so is «bad») into a state of timeless permanence (which is therefore «good»)-- characteristic of most post-Aristotelian philosophy and much contemporary Christianity — is thus seen to have more in common with Platonic dualism than with biblical witness.

God's immutability has been disputed by the preferability of a divine nature that is open to, and responsive to, new developments, in continuity with the biblical witness.

It never did fit well with the Biblical witness, where God is in constant interaction with the creatures and is affected by their decisions — hardly the picture of a God devoid of contingency (see Rice's contribution to Pinnock et al. 11 - 58).

More serious for evangelicals is the fact that these two culturally derived models seem at odds with the Biblical witness concerning «social justice.»

The other possibility — and the one I believe makes much more sense and is more in accord with the biblical witness — is that in Jesus the energizing and indwelling activity of God in human creation reaches a climactic stage.

My concern at this juncture is with the biblical witness itself, as crucial springboard for — and basis for judgment of — subsequent developments in the church's theologizing.

Not exact matches

The subsequent centuries have witnessed endless conflict over the Christian cultus, but one element in the long development of Biblical experience and thought concerning fellowship with God has remained as the common and unifying gain of all — «Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret.»

From what I understand, evangelicals also value the biblical witness to the ministry of Jesus and bringing people closer to relationship with God.

For this reason conservative Christians maintain that if we dispense with the concept of God as a supernatural being dwelling in heaven, we are rejecting the biblical witness.

What imperatives for concern with hunger and poverty are given to the community of faith in the biblical witness?

But since the New Testament itself contains various kinds of social witness — as its use both for and against slavery and patriarchy, for example, shows — debate can degenerate into mere thrust and parry of proof - texts with no possibility of resolution, or of even honest concession that both sides can claim biblical warrant.

He points out, for example, that while strict Whiteheadian thought does not allow for any «true end (finis) or beginning the biblical witness, on the contrary, is pervaded throughout its length and breadth with the concept of a movement of God's grace toward an end that is both teleos and finis» (111).

If our concern is peacemaking — particularly the special urgency given that task by the nuclear threat — then we shall have to come to grips with those portions of the biblical witness in which the community of faith has been forced to deal with the violence and pain of conflict between peoples.

There is an immediate problem with the two remaining «eyewitnesses,» however and virtually no biblical scholars think they witnessed anything.

The twentieth century was destined, however, to witness a resurgence of interest in biblical eschatology, and this we shall deal with in the next chapter.

«One can easily become deaf to biblical judgement, gradually replacing the presence of the ever - astonishing Christ, witnessed to in Gospels, with a closed system of Christology or ideology».

is to understand why the evangelicals could have come to the view that their own emphases were more likely to be conserved and stated with a more positively biblical note on such matters as proclamation and witness by the Roman Catholic Church than by the WCC».16

In my book «American Jesus,» I demonstrated how American views of Jesus, rather than adhering strictly to the unchanging biblical witness, have shifted with the cultural and political winds.

Magister went on to point out how rarely we hear of the subject, despite its centrality to the biblical witness: «In the preaching of Pope Francis,» he wrote, «there is one subject that returns with surprising frequency: the devil.

He also maintains that biblical theology should deal with both the Old Testament and New Testament witness on a given question and then grapple with the reality that brought them both forth.

With the modern return of interest in the meaning of history, it has been common for some biblical scholars to recognize the important role that history plays in the Bible, but to limit the Christian's concern with history to those events to which the Bible witnesWith the modern return of interest in the meaning of history, it has been common for some biblical scholars to recognize the important role that history plays in the Bible, but to limit the Christian's concern with history to those events to which the Bible witneswith history to those events to which the Bible witnesses.

If our concern is peacemaking — particularly the special urgency given that task by the nuclear threat — then we shall have to come to grips with those portions of the biblical witness in which the...

The full - blown championing of Greek categories of static supremacy has denied utterly the biblical witness to a God sublimely interactive with the cosmic forces God set in motion.

Suddenly Hays electrified the crowd with the announcement that the Defense wished to call Bryan to the stand «as a biblical witness.»