Historically, the English word derives from the Latin verb vertere , meaning "to turn," and over time it develops a wide range of sociocultural applications. Its religious application鈥攁 redirecting, renewal, or reconfiguration of faith鈥攊s the most familiar. Another common word ...
Is God trying to intentionally deceive us by using words that have a different meaning than what their plain meaning is? Isn't this a basic rule of hermeneutics? The literal meaning is the first meaning used unless context declares otherwise. Don't you have to redefine "destroy" in every ...
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...Genius will not;...Education will not;...Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge, US President "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his...
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No such trace exists in the mention of the "Temple" (5:7), for that word is even in 1Sa 1:9; 1Sa 3:3 applied to the Tabernacle; nor yet in the phrase "bringeth back the captivity" (14:7), which is elsewhere used, idiomatically, with great latitude of meaning (Job 42:10; ...
“Science” (the very meaning of which is knowledge) necessarily can deal only with those things which exist at present. The scientific method involves reproducibility, the study of present natural processes. When men attempt to interpret the events of the prehistoric past or the eschatological ...
Jesus As an Apocalyptic Prophet: The Meaning of the Theory for Systematic Theology In contemporary research on the figure of historical Jesus, the dominant theory is that he was an apocalyptic prophet, heralding the imminent coming of the... M Walczak - 《Biblical Theology Bulletin》 被引量: ...
Meaning-making is not restricted to any one of these four elements but occurs in the ephemeral communication event and its processing by participants during and after the event. As both epistemology and method, BPC is used analytically, heuristically, or practically. 1 Thanks to Carolyn Alsen, ...