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Biblical Ethics, Kevin Twain Lowery
Biblical Ethics, Kevin Twain Lowery
Faculty Scholarship – Biblical Literature
This article outlines the parameters of biblical ethics. It begins with an overview of how ethics functions in different ways throughout the biblical text, then it describes the ways that the content and emphases of biblical ethics changed over time, as evidenced in the biblical books themselves. This understanding provides a backdrop for a Wesleyan approach to appropriating biblical ethics for contemporary ethical issues.
Does Inerrancy Allow The Possibility Of Evolution?, Kevin Twain Lowery
Does Inerrancy Allow The Possibility Of Evolution?, Kevin Twain Lowery
Faculty Scholarship – Theology
The question of integrating science with a high view of Scripture is explored through case studies of two 19th-century Evangelical thinkers: Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (Calvinist) and William Burt Pope (Wesleyan). Both men attempted to reconcile evolution with the doctrine of biblical inerrancy, and this provides a basic template for Evangelicals who wish to uphold a high view of Scripture while respecting the advancement of science.
A Historical And Semantic Analysis Of Methods Of Biblical Interpretation As They Relate To Views Of Inspiration, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop
A Historical And Semantic Analysis Of Methods Of Biblical Interpretation As They Relate To Views Of Inspiration, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop
Wesleyan Holiness Books
This study seeks to understand the historical and contemporary Christian views of Scripture, particularly in regard to the relation of theories of Inspiration to the various methods of interpretation which have been and are employed by the Church. Though the question is never directly asked, the whole research has centered about the tacit question, what do we mean when we say that the Bible is the Word of God? The theology of inspiration is not under consideration but only an analysis of the various expressions regarding it. In this sense it is a semantic approach. The study is directed toward …