Last, we may suppose that it gave pleasure both to relate and to hear wonderful stories, because such is human nature; and the pleasure can be increased, at least till the point of incredulity is reached, by exaggerating the wonderful. So some real happening at the base of an account may be reconstructed by shrinking the account down to the physically possible.
Ramsay MacMullenTags: scripture religion-christianity
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever.
Robert G. IngersollTags: scripture religion church suffering punishment torture heresy torment
Ye shalt knoweth the truth and it shalt set thy free.
Yaqub khanTags: truth scripture religion faith islam
The collapse in evangelical doctrinal consensus is intimately related to the collapse in the understanding of, and role assigned to, Scripture as God's Word spoken within the church.
Carl R. TruemanTags: scripture evangelical
He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.
Dawn JayneTags: scripture religion bible tourettes
If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.
Thomas a KempisTags: reading scripture motivations
if we fail to root ourselves in Scripture, our souls will be starved for Christ.
Gangai VictorTags: christianity scripture bible jesus christ
Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.
N.T. WrightTags: christianity scripture bible tradition
Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is time to end this standoff, and to reestablish a hermeneutic of trust (itself a sign of the gospel!) in place of the hermeneutic of suspicion which the church has so disastrously borrowed from the postmodern world.
N.T. WrightTags: doubt christianity scripture church trust bible skepticism theology fundamentalists suspicion
For the humanists, whatever authority Scripture might possess derived from the original texts in their original languages, rather than from the Vulgate, which was increasingly recognized as unreliable and inaccurate. In that the catholic church continued to insist that the Vulgate was a doctrinally normative translation, a tension inevitably developed between humanist biblical scholarship and catholic theology...Through immediate access to the original text in the original language, the theologian could wrestle directly with the 'Word of God,' unhindered by 'filters' of glosses and commentaries that placed the views of previous interpreters between the exegete and the text. For the Reformers, 'sacred philology' provided the key by means of which the theologian could break free from the confines of medieval exegesis and return ad fontes to the title deeds of the Christian faith rather than their medieval expressions, to forge once more the authentic theology of the early church.
Tags: scripture bible theology catholic-church reformation medieval-church vulgate
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