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Author: Scott Hahn Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing ISBN: 164585101X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 210
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What is wrong with Scripture scholarship today? Why is it that the last place one should go to study the Bible is a biblical studies program at virtually any university? Why are so many faithful priests and pastors, and the people in their pews, unaware of the centuries-long effort to turn the sacred Word of God into just another secular text? In The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture: How the Bible Became a Secular Book, authors Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker trace the various malformations of Scripture scholarship that have led to a devastating loss of trust in the inspired Word of God. From the Reformation to the Enlightenment and beyond, Hahn and Wiker sketch the revolutions and radical figures that led to the emergence of the historical-critical method and the pervasive ill effects that are still being felt today.
Author: Shema Publisher: The Shema ISBN: 147929117X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 221
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Our creator finally provides the actual details of his design in the long sort after ?Theory of Everything.' Now, our eyes finally open to fully understand the world which we have studied.The tribes and so called races of man have all been given pieces of this massive puzzle. When put together, it weaves a tapestry of one beautiful story. The bible provides the structure, the Africans provide a first person account, Native Americans hold vital elements, the Aztecs tell us the thoughts of God and his expectations for his designs. Asian theology focuses on living today and Christianity takes us to a new tomorrow. But no story could be complete without the details, the process used, the illusive ?How,? for this we thank the final seers of science.The bible tells us that to achieve the design of man, God cursed man to become weaker, naked, to have pain during labor and the entire event is triggered in the process of eating. Geneticist confirm that the genetic mutations which transformed man are weaker muscles, a narrower pelvic cavity, a significant loss of body hair and a redesign in the jaw muscles which allows the brain to grow much larger than other primates.From this we discover that what science refers to as a genetic mutation is considered a biblical curse. And from this every curse from those relating to incest and over eating are connected to mutations. From the weaving of the universe to the wiring of the brain, every question you've ever asked about life and death and who we are is finally answered. God is not dead, he is life.
Author: Matthew Richard Schlimm Publisher: Baker Academic ISBN: 1441222871 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 286
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The Old Testament can seem strange and disturbing to contemporary readers. What should Christians make of Genesis 1-3, seemingly at odds with modern scientific accounts? Why does the Old Testament contain so much violence? How should Christians handle texts that give women a second-class status? Does the Old Testament contradict itself? Why are so many Psalms filled with anger and sorrow? What should we make of texts that portray God as filled with wrath? Combining pastoral insight, biblical scholarship, and a healthy dose of humility, gifted teacher and communicator Matthew Schlimm explores perennial theological questions raised by the Old Testament. He provides strategies for reading and appropriating these sacred texts, showing how the Old Testament can shape the lives of Christians today and helping them appreciate the Old Testament as a friend in faith.
Author: David Ganz Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110558602 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 322
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According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.
Author: Konrad Schmid Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674248384 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 449
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The authoritative new account of the BibleÕs origins, illuminating the 1,600-year tradition that shaped the Christian and Jewish holy books as millions know them today. The Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that begins in the tenth century BCE. In this revelatory account, a world-renowned scholar of Hebrew scripture joins a foremost authority on the New Testament to write a new biography of the Book of Books, reconstructing Jewish and Christian scriptural histories, as well as the underappreciated contest between them, from which the Bible arose. Recent scholarship has overturned popular assumptions about IsraelÕs past, suggesting, for instance, that the five books of the Torah were written not by Moses but during the reign of Josiah centuries later. The sources of the Gospels are also under scrutiny. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schrter reveal the long, transformative journeys of these and other texts en route to inclusion in the holy books. The New Testament, the authors show, did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone. Rather the two evolved in parallel, in conversation with each other, ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and Christian traditions. Indeed, Schmid and Schrter argue that Judaism may not have survived had it not been reshaped in competition with early Christianity. A remarkable synthesis of the latest Old and New Testament scholarship, The Making of the Bible is the most comprehensive history yet told of the worldÕs best-known literature, revealing its buried lessons and secrets.
Author: James P. Byrd Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190697563 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
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The American colonists who took up arms against the British fought in defense of the ''sacred cause of liberty.'' But it was not merely their cause but warfare itself that they believed was sacred. In Sacred Scripture, Sacred War, James P. Byrd shows that the Bible was a key text of the American Revolution.
Author: Michael C. Legaspi Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199741778 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 239
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The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies examines the creation of the academic Bible. Beginning with the fragmentation of biblical interpretation in the centuries after the Reformation, Michael Legaspi shows how the weakening of scriptural authority in the Western churches altered the role of biblical interpretation. Focusing on renowned German scholar Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791), Legaspi explores the ways in which critics reconceived the role of the Bible. This book offers a new account of the origins of biblical studies, illuminating the relation of the Bible to churchly readers, theological interpreters, academic critics, and people in between. It explains why, in an age of religious resurgence, modern biblical criticism may no longer be in a position to serve as the Bible's disciplinary gatekeeper.
Author: Steven C. Smith Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor ISBN: 9781612785882 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 255
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For many Catholics, Scripture remains an elusive part of their faith, or worse yet, a weapon used against them when encountering challenges from other denominations.
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Author: Scott Hahn
Author: Shema
Author: Matthew Richard Schlimm
Author: David Ganz
Author: Konrad Schmid
Author: James P. Byrd
Author: Michael C. Legaspi
Author: Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers
Author: Steven C. Smith