…I have heard you speak powerfully about economic justice, and know that your convictions there are rooted and grounded in scripture. I have heard you tell the story of the…
…highest hostility towards refugees tend to be white evangelicals who oftentimes interpret scriptures in ways that privilege adherence to the law. Furthermore, the report indicated that the same demographic is…
…1 Pet 4:10-11: “Let him stand in fear, lest he teach anything contrary to the will of God, the authority of Scripture, or the good of his brethren; or, lest…
…to write a new scripture, but the work that resulted surely would not have endured had it been simply a compendium of Transcendentalist aphorisms. What remains vital is the progressive…
…who were determined to find direct guidance in Scripture for contemporary politics. However, it was to anticipate subsequent developments in Protestant political thought, which in the 17th century began to…
…it draws on a Protestant reading of the Jewish scriptures governed by the metaphor of blood: blood conquest, blood sacrifice, blood atonement and blood purity. Trump’s rhetoric is devoid of…
…guru of sorts, knowledge of the Vedas, the most ancient Hindu scriptures written in Sanskrit, containing ritualistic guidelines for priests, was not exclusively book learning alienated from the everyday world….
…point in time,” as Doctor Who might put it—is one shared by Luke himself. While Luke does not emphasize the fulfilment of specific scriptures to the degree that Matthew does,…
…and politics in a modernity founded on their putative division. In the study of early modern Europe, political theology is often used to name a gallery of icons, rites, and…
…Vatican II, scholars have worked to enrich moral theology with a deeper connection to scripture and to spiritual formation. But integrating the social and the personal sides of moral teaching…
…countries’ imperial domination. Part of Wimbush’s own response to this history may be gleaned from the organization he founded, the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, that refuses the historical Christian supremacy of…
…committee (led by Ezra). Moreover, the authors of those texts adopted as “Scripture”, and especially the Hebrew prophets, were not highly educated individuals; they knew little of philosophy or science,…