...Canonical understanding of Scripture has been the focus of recent scholarship in the West. Korean biblical scholars welcome this development for it saves the scriptural Bible from the distressing outcome of the academic Bible. It reminded us of scriptural studies of Dasan Jeong Yak-Yong (1762–1836...

... and Confucian scriptures. These readings resulted in both anti- and pro-Christian writings. They show the hermeneutical goals and the distinctive characteristics of intertextual readings. Their early historical and hermeneutical initiative is a model for today’s Korean or Asian contextual readings of the Bible...

...This article examines theological interpretations of Scripture, with a focus on Paul. It discusses the presumption that Christians interpret Scripture theologically to improve their prospects of living and worshipping faithfully before the Triune God, and links this presumption to arguments about...

...Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond. Amir Saemi, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197686232.003.0007 The problem of divinely prescribed evil arises only if we have a moral interpretation of Scriptural injunctions...

...This chapter knits a rich history of Latter-day Saint women artists who traveled internationally to develop their skills. These women carved out territory in a male-dominated profession to contribute to the shared image of LDS doctrine and scripture during the first half of the twentieth century...

... on that chapter. Parallel Masterpieces 13 speak thus) theologizing; [. . .] I ask you [. . .] to indicate to me in your next letter what your plan and aim are in this writing of yours. 13 To this request Spinoza replied: I am now composing a treatise on my opinion regarding scripture. The consid­ erations which...

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...This chapter draws comparisons between the Reformation era and the modern-day transformation of Christianity to becoming a worldwide faith based in the Global South. Prominent resemblances between the two eras include the radical new emphasis on the role of scripture, and the massive impact of new...

... Death penalty Gay rights Constitutional clauses Forgiveness Conversion religious Punitiveness Jury decision making biblical quotes scripture biblical appeals closing arguments attorney arguments religious appeals In the book of Exodus … it says: He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall...

... and contemporary investigations of Walter T. Stace, R. C. Zaehner, Frits Staal, Ninian Smart, Nelson Pike, William Wainwright, Huston Smith, and Wayne Proudfoot. Such a review would reveal a nearly uniform neglect of the significance of sacred scriptures in the descriptive studies and the analytic discussions...

... in this sense, the scriptures are a bit of a disappointment in the Theravadin canon, compared to the “high” views of scripture elsewhere. But because of its strong concern with psychology and analysis, parts of the canon function like handbooks for practical living, including, notably, meditation. Scripture...

... the throne in Jerusalem takes in the whole sweep of Israel’s remembered historical experiences; Ecclesiastes is revealed as not simply as a piece of marketplace philosophy, but as a learned essay in processing a community’s memory, with strong ties to the rest of Jewish and Christian scripture....

... of aspects and passages of the Commedia that bring into sharper focus central ideas reflected upon in previous chapters. Special attention is devoted to the shape of the Paradiso, Inferno 13, and the significance of Scripture in the Commedia. 3) To allow...

...The Hebrew Bible is the classic example of a sacred text frozen in time which must satisfy the religious needs of succeeding generations of believers. Early on in its history, Judaism developed the concept of an oral tradition which expanded upon and interpreted the text of sacred scripture...

.... As time-honored certainties concerning Hebrew scripture crumbled in the post-medieval period and as the need to probe questions of biblical authorship, dating, original historical setting and the like was felt with unprecedented intensity in “modernity”, it was in “introductions” to the Hebrew Bible...

... the divinity of Christ, and in the second he manifests that divinity through those things Christ did in the flesh. A scholastic division of the text appears to be a product of the 13th century. As a technique for interpreting texts, it is not limited to sacred scripture. It is used principally to elucidate...

... punctis religionis christianae, De tribus hierarchiis, and De tribus sensibus sacrae scripturae. This chapter focuses on the third treatise, which shows how any passage of sacred scripture may be interpreted according to three senses: allegorical, tropological...

...Chapter 5 focuses on Equiano’s narration of his conversion experience as full entry into the discursive regime of scripturalization as magical arts. Equiano Olaudah Annis John Bible Ethiopian reading stranger Igbo Quakers Turkey Sharp Granville mimetics scriptures script ur e alizing...

... as recorded in the Scripture. Although Puritans routinely practiced a level of coercion that modern democratic liberalism instinctively condemned, their attempts at social control grew organically from conceptions of personal and communal well-being, in which the good for one as a person had to be the good...

...This chapter discusses how the Scripture was used to instigate revolutions in the eighteenth century. Colonial fears about local bishops intensified during the 1750s and 1760s. Colonial Anglicans wanted ministerial candidates who were ordained through the laying of a bishop's hands, and local...