Sentences with phrase «with liberal interpretations»

This is the problem I have with liberal interpretations of the Bible.

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hey G, I am acquainted with your theory there... it is called Preterism... it is the standard interpretation of Revelation given by liberals... I walked away from that belief and the church I was raised in when I found out what they are teaching... Nope, the book of revelation is not a «code» for the events of the day at the time of the fall of Jerusalem.

Whereas challenges to biblical faith, world war, the decline of conventional morality, economic depression, and growing expectation of another great war undermined liberal optimism, that scenario made the dispensationalist interpretation of scripture, with its predictions of a downward spiral preceding the second coming of Christ, increasingly plausible.

Therefore, after our imaginative interpretations are made with vigor in dispute with others in the church, we must regularly, gracefully and with modesty fall back from our best extrapolations to the sure apostolic claims that lie behind our extremities of imagination, liberal or conservative.

For my part I have been very much taken with — I should say, won over by — the eschatological interpretation that Jurgen Moltmann gives to the Christian kerygma in his work The Theology of Hope.1 As we know, Johannes Weiss and Albert Schweitzer are at the origin of the reinterpretation of the whole of the New Testament, starting with the preaching of the Kingdom of God and of the last things and breaking with the moralizing Christ of the liberal exegetes.

This type of interpretation starts with Schleiermacher, the father of modern liberal theology, in the early part of the nineteenth century.

Moreover, he shares the liberal concern that interpreters of the Bible should be in dialogue with all that has gone on in «the great romance of culture «13 and all that is happening in contemporary experience, in Ricoeur's hands interpretation is always confronted with the perspective of «counter disciplines»: physiology, psychoanalysis sociology, anthropology, linguistics, the history of philosophy.

Too obsessed with the literal interpretation of scripture to follow the spirit of Jesus» liberal ideas.

However, both Catholic and Protestant liberals have flirted with similar interpretations.

Here we can not go into the analyses of each of these trends or the adequacy of Ferré's interpretation of the recent trends in American theology, except to say that theologians of different persuasions, with the possible exception of the so - called liberals, while recognizing the usefulness of the history of religions, nevertheless agree with Professor Hendrik Kraemer in stating that only theology «is able to produce that attitude of freedom of the spirit and of impartial understanding, combined with a criticism and evaluation transcending all imprisonment in preconceived ideas and principles as ultimate standards of reference.»

A Rice spokesman said the DA did interview with the Post, but also took issue with the 20 percent figure, saying that even with the most «liberal» interpretation of firms associated with Weitz & Luxenberg, those contributions account for just 8 percent of more her campaign cash.

I am now annoyed with myself for taking the brief literally when I could have taken a more liberal interpretation and been happier with the look!

(And, as with Body Snatchers, Siegel's own liberal interpretation was trumped by a more forceful hard - right reading.

Both franchises have spurred entire subgenres of games - with the best efforts adopting a more liberal, rather than direct interpretation of their source material.

As the New York Times explains, you're going to have to be a little bit liberal with your interpretation of «costs» to include things like the economic value of improved human health from cleaner air — invaluable, to some, but not exactly the sort of thing the fossil fuel industry includes in its bottom line.

But the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has given the term a very liberal interpretation... Over recent years, the protection has been extended to relationships with step - parents, same sex spousal - child relationships, foster parent relationships and pregnancy.

A review of the long line of Supreme Court decisions descending from Chief Justice Dickson's and Mr. Justice LaForest's decision in Sparrow in 1990 shows a Court that began its consideration of these matters by describing s. 35 (1) «as a promise» and that promises needed to be considered with a liberal and generous purposive interpretation.

In Kazakewich v. Kazakewich, [1936] A.J. No. 10 (C.A.), the Alberta Court of Appeal summed up the ratios in Lambe, Severn and Edwards in this way at paragraph 86: I take it then that in approaching the interpretation of the pertinent sections of The B.N.A. Act with respect to the administration of justice, a Court should keep in mind that these sections are embodied in an Imperial statute to which the ordinary rules for the interpretation of statutes apply, that therefore the intention of the framers of this Imperial statute must be ascertained as at the date of the enactment by having regard to the words employed without extraneous aids to interpretation where the language is unambiguous, and that having regard however to the nature of the statute, a great constitutional charter, the widest and most liberal construction of the words used should be adopted with a view to giving effect to the whole scheme of Canadian union [Emphasis Added].

It is reasonable to assume, that it was expected that the interpretation of those substantive Charter rights would be restrained by and discerned with reference to, the liberal, non-liberal value mix characteristic of Canada's political culture.

The court overturned the lower decisions, deciding that the traditional view of a partnership should prevail, with the result that «a partner can not be an employee of the partnership of which he or she is a member, because he or she can not employ him or herself» and that this view was not to be «over-ridden by a broad, liberal and purposive interpretation of the Code.»