Example sentences of "[art] new testament " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Book of Revelation , which Tolstoy said ‘ reveals absolutely nothing ’ , is more heavily marked than anything else in the New Testament which Dostoevsky took to prison with him , and we know that huge overarching shapes like Baal , the Kingdom of Antichrist , are beginning to appear in his writing from the early 1860s . |
| 2 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 3 | Hoskyns , at this moment aged 43 , lectured on the thought and the ethics of the New Testament . |
| 4 | He seemed to regard the New Testament as a stormy sea in which he was tossed about in a little boat as he explored . |
| 5 | ‘ I learned from him , more vividly than from anyone else , that the study of the New Testament is an exciting adventure , and that while it calls for a rigorous-critical discipline , it is not made less scientific if the student brings to it his own experience of faith . ’ |
| 6 | Bethune-Baker and his school supposed that the more you strip the documents of the New Testament the more clarity and simplicity you will find . |
| 7 | Raven ran a weekly class on the New Testament . |
| 8 | This is not the answer to which the study of the New Testament leads . |
| 9 | Here was a young man learned in the New Testament and in the early Fathers ; thinking hard for himself ; manifestly a lover of God and of the gospel ; an Anglo-Catholic but one who spoke in tones more persuasive to Protestants than was usual among Anglo-Catholics , with tolerance , and respect , and a gratitude for all that was best in the Protestant tradition . |
| 10 | The thought of glory always rose quickly amid his devotions and the book was scholarly meditation on glory in the New Testament . |
| 11 | He seemed to himself to need more leisure to pursue his studies of the New Testament and of Christian thought more profoundly . |
| 12 | Although a free and critical mind , he reached reasonably conservative conclusions about the New Testament — which pleased the nonconformists and the bishop on the board . |
| 13 | The Presbyterian T. W. Manson , a leading scholar in the New Testament and capable of judging whether or not Ramsey had academic weight , seconded the proposal . |
| 14 | No one except Ramsey could teach the New Testament . |
| 15 | He gave two courses of lectures and the notes for both courses survived : one on the New Testament and one on the Christian idea of redemption . |
| 16 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 17 | Here he weighed nuclear disarmament or the latest ways in the study of the New Testament or the nature of the establishment in Church and State or the Church in industrial society . |
| 18 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 19 | And at one point , showing how the books were formed into the New Testament by the early Church , the report expressed the belief that God gave the early Church its three gifts of ordering of the New Testament , creeds like the apostles ' creed , and the ministry of bishops in their succession from the apostles . |
| 20 | And at one point , showing how the books were formed into the New Testament by the early Church , the report expressed the belief that God gave the early Church its three gifts of ordering of the New Testament , creeds like the apostles ' creed , and the ministry of bishops in their succession from the apostles . |
| 21 | The only contrived thing about it was the initial impulse , which interpreted the New Testament injunction to deny self as to ‘ live without an image of the self ’ . |
| 22 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 23 | Different books of the New Testament have different ways of describing the indescribable , that is , the nature of Christ , and the first three centuries of Christendom are a history of ceaseless dispute among the most learned doctors of the Church as to what this nature was , and how it was made manifest during the period of the Incarnation . |
| 24 | But the nature and being of Christ are not made obvious and clear-cut even in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 25 | The first Christians would identify with this contemporary struggle : the New Testament is peppered with allusions to battle . |
| 26 | There are different functions , and the New Testament shows the way that the early church divided them up . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , only one Gothic text , the Codex Argenteus , a piece of the New Testament written in silver ink on purple parchment , survived the downfall of the Goths . |
| 28 | His interpretation of the New Testament 's essentials is literal : ‘ I believe ’ , he says , ‘ that Jesus was crucified , buried and that his cold , dead body was raised alive by God . ’ |
| 29 | Third , many will point out that justification is conspicuous in the New Testament by its absence . |
| 30 | Why , some might question , is there such an emphasis on something which is so peripheral to the New Testament ? |