Introduces the complex subject of canon formation. Especially helpful in its exploration of the meaning of canon, the most significant issue that divides scholars and regularly leads to different conclusions. Barton also distinguishes between the notion of scripture and canon and deals carefully with th...
When, in its last stage, Buddhism is driven to the assumption of an Adi, or primitive Buddha, as the creator of the universe, Nirvana, then meaning the absorption into him, ceases to have any real affinity with the original Buddhistic term" (Chambers). ...
The heavy emphasis on biblical quotation as the last word of the novel suggests an orthodox Protestant veneration for applying the Word to find meaning in apparently random events and implies that Eliot grounds her novel on biblical narrative techniques and ethical assumptions. Eliot, though, is on...
Without entering into a discussion of the meaning of this famous passage, we may here quote from Abbott's Commentary on the New Testament a statement of the Roman Catholic interpretation, and the grounds on which that view is rejected by all Protestants: ...
(2) The Aramaic—the colloquial language, the language of common life.He would necessarily know the second, not necessarily know the first.The Hebrew of the New Testament is Aramaic. This is the meaning of 'Efipaiarl in such passages as John v...
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Now long before I became interested in theology I had met this kind of theory elsewhere. The tradition of Jowett still dominated the study of ancient philosophy when I was reading Greats. One was brought up to believer that the real meaning of Plato had been misunderstood by Aristotle and ...
Pillar is a term frequently occurring in the Scriptures, especially of the O.T., where it is used in different senses, and as the rendering of several Heb. and Gr. words, which need to be distinguished both in their meaning and application. ...