Sentences with phrase «write biblical commentaries»

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R.R. Reno, general editor of the Brazos Theological Commentary, writes: «This series of biblical commentaries was born out of the conviction that dogma clarifies rather than obscures.

In 1963 a respected biblical scholar wrote in a popular commentary on Daniel and Revelation, «Should anyone today make minute predictions about events in world history between now and the year AD.

I have ventured into writing commentaries on the biblical books in Malayalam, approaching the Bible in two senses of the word, layman: namely, inadequate scientific understanding of the text but primarily concerned with response to life - situations.

It is probable that during the exile, he wrote his treatise Ad Fortunatum, a collection of Biblical passages with commentary on martyrdom.

I am, of course, not enough of a biblical expert to write a commentary, but I figure that if I start now, by the time I'm 80 or 90 and know enough to write a commentary (although does anyone ever know enough?)

(In fact, when I was about 9 or 10, I dreamt of compiling a commentary on the Bible called «The World Commentary» which was written by leading biblical scholars from around commentary on the Bible called «The World Commentary» which was written by leading biblical scholars from around Commentary» which was written by leading biblical scholars from around the world.

But it was also the case that, as Alter moved from making brilliant observations about a small selection of texts to writing large commentaries on entire biblical books, the weaknesses of his scholarship became more visible.

Early Christian thinkers knew, writes Wilken, «something that has largely been forgotten by biblical scholars, and their commentaries are an untapped resource for understanding the Bible as a book about Christ.»

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

is a surreal commentary on religion and the environment; Lawrence is Mother Nature focused on her paradise while Bardem is God writing a biblical novel.