It is for this reason that God has given us the Bible: “God has made known the secret of His will through the Prophets and Apostles in the Holy Scriptures. He permitted them to say who He is” (18). Brunner holds an instrumental view of the Scripture. God speaks to humanitythroughthe...
Godly Play with its heavy emphasis on the Scriptures as 'story' and the interpretation of the Imago Dei in terms of a 'symbolic/language' mediation of divine reality fits in well with the insights of mainline Protestant and Evangelical Churches. Catechesis of the Good Shepherd interprets the ...
Psalm 119:176); as the shepherd of His people the image is much more frequent (Psalm 78:52; Psalm 80:1; Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 63:11; Ezekiel 34; Micah 7:14). . . . Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - The Lord is my Shepherd. This metaphor, so frequent in the later Scriptures (...
1. One analysis of this theological development in Israel’s scriptures can be found in Gerhard von Rad, Old Testament Theology, Volume II, The Theology of Israel’s Prophetic Traditions (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), pp. 240-241. 2. Andrew T. Lincoln, “The Letter to the Colossians...
John had expressed by saying, "Jesus knowing that all things were now finished, that the Scriptures should be fulfilled." The order of the seven words of the cross will be, (1) "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34); (2) "Verily I say unto thee, ...
Who would dare to disobey the holy command of the holy Jehovah in the holy scriptures, who killed even his own beloved son, Jesus, to give eternal holy salvation to all mankind? This is the duality of the poison contained in the sweet pie called Christianity, and the problem of modern th...
Most of Fr. Kilian’s poetry finds its grounding in the scriptures. And while some folks with stereotypes about monks, poetry, and the scriptures—let alone a combination of the three—might suppose that a longtime monk who takes his inspiration from the Bible would produce poetry that is eth...
Let’s return to the gospel the story: The next thing the text tells us is that Jesus“opened their minds to understand the scriptures.”Something else needed to happen, some sort of “opening of the mind” into spiritual awareness.
I love to skip and dance through time with the joy of the Lord as my strength. I savor and bask in the inner peace that comes from “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” The Scriptures are full of prophetic words that skip through time to bless, empower, and guide me. The risen ...
The other day I encountered a striking, living illustration of the Church’s ancient conviction that the Scriptures possess essentially two senses—literal and spiritual—and that both are real and indivisible, both divinely intended. In God’s book, more than one sense in a text is not non-...