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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"biblical interpretation"”.
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The Water Imagery in the Psalms: An Inner-Biblical Interpretation
… links, that the authors of the Psalms were biblical theologians in that the Pentateuch shaped their worldview. Because of their scripture-shaped worldview, they employed water imagery from earlier scriptures to interpret present-day events. The psalmists' use of water imagery also pointed to …
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Reading the Bible Tu'a-wise: Tongan Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation
… the Bible Tu’a-wise: Tongan Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation.” Its key objectives are to theorize some Tongan categories of analysis, to chart some culturally shaped methods of analysis, and to read a selected text using the analytical categories and methods. These objectives do not …
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Critiquing Ethnohermeneutics Theories: A Call for an Author-Oriented Approach to Cross-Cultural Biblical Interpretation
… proposes an alternative view to cross-cultural interpretation. Chapter 1 introduces the study by examining the topic of ethnohermeneutics and its development out of the indigenous movement. For the sake of clarity, key terms are defined. The project background, methodology, and the limitations …
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The Role of the Holy Spirit in Biblical Interpretation: a Study in the Writings of James I. Packer
… attention has been given to the Spirit's role in biblical interpretation. Two vital questions are prompted by this apparent indifference to the Spirit's work in interpretation: (1) Should the Evangelical doctrine of Scripture be rested on the deistic concept that the Holy Spirit, having inspired …
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"Scripture Is Both the Glosse and the Text": Biblical Interpretation and Its Implementation in the Works of William Perkins
… Perkins consistently applied this method of biblical interpretation regardless of the genre in which he worked. Perkins pursued this strategy not only due to his convictions concerning Scripture, but also because he perceived the cause of further reformation as urgent during the reign of …
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In Pursuit of an Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Assessing Cheryl Anderson’s Evaluative Process through Interpretations of Romans 1:18-32.
… to explore the possible elements of an ethics of biblical interpretation by critically examining an evaluative process proposed by Cheryl Anderson. The intention of an ethics of biblical interpretation is to ensure that interpreters take responsibility both to treat the biblical text justly and to …
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Parenting Style and Its Relationship to Interpretation of the Bible and Worship Style in College Students.
… stimulus parents would relate significantly to biblical interpretation style and preferred worship style. A 2x3 independent groups factorial design was employed for analysis in two different procedures. Respondents (152 undergraduate students) were provided with one of six scenarios, each of …
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Projection interpretation: toward a hermeneutic for homiletics
This thesis offers a new hermeneutic specific to biblical interpretation for preaching. “Hermeneutics” is, roughly speaking, the art and science of understanding. With reference to preaching, hermeneuts examine how preachers interpret the Bible in preparation for preaching from it. This thesis …
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The Influence of Religiosity and Fundamentalism on White Protestants' Attitudes Toward Women's Issues
… well as between the measures of fundamentalism (Biblical interpretation, NORC determined level of fundamentalism, and self-report being fundamentalist) and attitudes toward women's issues were included. Biblical interpretation and gender were the two most often correlated variables. A …
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Spirit, discipleship, community : the contemporary significance of Anabaptist hermeneutics
… from other sixteenth century systems of biblical interpretation; and, on the basis of this survey, to explore ways in which Anabaptist hermeneutics might contribute to contemporary hermeneutical developments. Anabaptist hermeneutics offered a coherent and distinctive approach to biblical …
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The Agikuyu, the bible and colonial constructs: towards an ordinary African readers’ hermeneutics
Recognising the paradigm shift in African biblical studies where the image of a “decontextualized and non-ideological” scientific Bible reader is slowly being replaced with one of a “contextualized and ideological” reader, this research seeks to explore and understand the role of the “ordinary …
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Hal Lindsey's <i>The Late, Great Planet Earth</i> and the Rise of Popular Premillennialism in the 1970s
… a specific strain of late-nineteenth century Biblical interpretation known as dispensational premillennialism, which has manifested in various schools of premillennial thought over the last 150 years. However, Lindsey translated this complicated system into modern language and connected it …
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A Study Of Identity Issues That Affect Clergy Leadership On LGBTQ Inclusion
… of identity issues affected clergy practice of biblical and theological interpretations on topics that include: purity, inclusion, same-sex marriage, ordination of LGBTQ persons, denominational loyalty, local church loyalty, transactional leadership, transformational leadership, and …
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Woman Has Two Faces: Re-Examining Eve and Lilith in Jewish Feminist Thought
… history of American feminism, Jewish feminist biblical interpretation shifted attention away from Eve as a viable example of women's identities. Instead, Lilith, the independent, "demon" and "first wife" of Adam is praised as a symbol of female sexuality for "Transformationist" Jewish …
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If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas
… and Wil Gafney’s offerings to the world of biblical scholarship have had a profound impact on Christian faith in the United States. Womanist biblical scholarship is the hermeneutics, ethics, critique, theology, and more, done with a specific lens on Black women and how we are understood …
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The captivity of the Bible in South Africa : toward a pastorally concerned biblical hermeneutics
Various contemporary Liberation methodologies of Biblical interpretation have generally failed to find a firm enough footage amongst communities of the oppressed. This is so, in spite of the fact that these methodologies are born out of the struggles for liberation of these communities. Most of the …
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SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AND INTERNALIZED SEXUAL PREJUDICE: PERFORMING MASCULINITY AT THE SUMMIT CHURCH
… I analyze how the practices of preaching, biblical interpretation, prayer, and exclusion form a hostile social environment for sexual minorities. Patriarchal notions of gender, and specifically conservative Christian manhood, are practiced by members and leaders at the Summit, in part …
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Injury and blessing: a challenge to current readings of biblical discourse concerning impairment
… as profoundly negative and disabling. Modern biblical interpretation both reflects and reinforces these presuppositions, overlooking the wide range of uses of impairment in ancient texts, and causing alienation and damage to people living impairment. To read texts of the Bible informed by an …
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The Pastor as Vital Link : a Study in How Seminary-Educated Pastors Engender Engagement with Scripture in Select Congregations
… the “self” as the research instrument, used interpretation, employed expressive and first- person language and voice, and paid attention to particulars. The study offers a grounded theory that describes how seminary-educated pastors are successfully leading ordinary readers to informed, …
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Contextualized biblical hermeneutics in Korea and South Africa and decontextualized biblical hermeneutics in Jehovah's witnesses : in search of voices from the margin
… thesis is in search of voices from the margin in biblical hermeneutics. Firstly, biblical hermeneutics in the third world (Korea and South Africa) is marginalized by European biblical hermeneutics. However, their biblical hermeneutics plays significant roles in a political and cultural context in …
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