Sentences with phrase «within biblical standards»

If tradition may specify limits to community action within biblical norms, then tolerance should emerge among Christian groups whose group customs - say, the weekly day of worship - may oppose each other and yet lie within biblical standards.

Not exact matches

On the contrary, there are standards of right and wrong within Christian tradition concerning human sexuality, based in human nature and biblical revelation, which are acceptable to homosexual and heterosexual alike, and which can form the moral basis of public policy.

Within the Church, «scientific» exegesis has often been regarded as the gold standard of serious biblical scholarship, and modern Christians are often as contemptuous of premodern allegory, figural exegesis, and typology as your neighborhood philosophe.

Before continuing to review the discussion as it has been carried on within Protestant theological circles, we may perhaps be permitted a brief excursus into the realm of Roman Catholic biblical scholarship, for Strauss's book produced an immediate reaction from a Roman Catholic New Testament professor in which what has come to be, to the best of our knowledge, the standard Roman Catholic viewpoint, was developed.

No doubt you are also familiar with their position statement on sexuality: «The Salvation Army believes that God's will for the expression of sexual intimacy is revealed in the Bible, and that living fully in accordance with biblical standards calls for chastity outside of heterosexual marriage and faithfulness within it.»

Within the Prepare / Enrich model, I am able to work with couples from a standard approach or a biblical or Catholic approach.