Sentence examples for bible text from inspiring English sources

Examining The Secret Gospel of Mark - a highly controversial and disputed Bible text that many have claimed was forged - Tatchell said that there is evidence for Jesus being homosexual.

Together with the celebrated Peshitta, an early Syriac Bible text, the Philoxenian New Testament, as it is called, served as the principal scriptural source for Syriac Christianity for two centuries.

The bishop's interpretation is "so obviously wrong," Mr. Hylden continued, in an e-mail, "that the deeper question is: Why does she feel at liberty to give a reading of Scripture that doesn't even try to understand and explain what the text is saying?" Fidelity to the Bible text is obviously never trivial for Christians, but it is especially sensitive for Episcopalians right now.

The term "biblicist" refers to theologies that emphasize the Bible text much more heavily than other potential sources of authority, such as church tradition, ecclesiastical authority, past theologians, science, etc.

"Fundamentalism" takes its name from a series of articles defending traditional Christianity against the liberalness of scholarly "higher criticism" of the Bible text, in which scholars concluded that the Bible was a very human product of centuries of editing and redacting.

As noted above, it is not far off to say that fundamentalist theologians, and their antecedents such as the Princeton theologians, viewed theology as a science, with the Bible text as the data, and with controversial questions to be decided by weighing the Bible verses on each side.

As well as the Bible, texts range from Hildegard of Bingen to Primo Levi and Louise Erdrich.

That and other Bible texts have been running on posters at railway stations for almost as long as I've been commuting and nobody has complained before now.

Dr. Frank Cross, who studied the scrolls says there are three main "families" of Bible texts: Palestinian, Egyptian, & Babylonian, each exhibiting special features from growing up in a different locality.

Although Wilken looks at multiple meanings in Bible texts, he appears unwilling to take us behind the curtain to see what makes the vast engine of theological argument work.

The spoken words — Bible texts and the writings of St. Ignatius, read in Italian — are intended to help the visitor "engage in a deeper contemplation," Father Libanori said, in line with the mission of the Jesuits.