Publisher’s Note about Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Editions

2016 ◽  
pp. vii-viii
Keyword(s):  
Bible Study ◽  
The Bible

Cultivating Intimacy

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Bielo
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Relational Spirituality ◽  
Restoration Movement ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Study Experience ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
American Evangelicalism

In this article I contribute to the sociology and anthropology of American Evangelicalism by examining the discourse of group Bible study. Every week millions of Christians in the U.S. meet for group study, and in doing so, actively negotiate the categories of meaning central to their faith. Yet, this crucial practice has received scant attention from scholars. This study is grounded in theories of social practice and symbolic interaction, where cultural life is understood through its vital institutions, and institutions are treated as inter-subjective accomplishments. I employ the concept of ‘interactive frames’ to define how Evangelicals understand the Bible study experience. Ultimately, I argue that the predominant interactive frame for Evangelicals is that of cultivating intimacy, which directly reflects the type of personalized, relational spirituality characteristic of their faith. This, in turn, has serious consequences for how Bible reading and interpretation are performed in groups. I use a case study approach, providing close ethnographic analyses of a mixed-gender group from a Restoration Movement congregation.

Enchanted Calvinism

2021 ◽  
pp. 589-607
Author(s):  
Adam Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Bible Study ◽  
Primary Site ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Initial Transformation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Church

The goal of this chapter is to explain how healing and deliverance practices were instituted in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG). The first half of this chapter examines the PCG’s initial transformation, which was driven by three factors: the decision by the leadership to introduce healing practices into the church, the creation of the Bible Study and Prayer Group to manage the afflicted within congregations, and the influence of two parachurch organizations. The second half of this chapter focuses on Catechist Ebenezer Abboah-Offei, who since 1996 has been leading Grace Presbyterian Church in Akropong, the primary site of healing and deliverance practices within the PCG. With regards to Abboah-Offei, this chapter describes how he came to teach and practise deliverance and the process by which Grace Presbyterian was established. Finally, this chapter describes the various healing and deliverance activities that occur at Grace Presbyterian Church.

scholarly journals Bible Study of Mission and Discipleship in the Great Commission and Its Implications for Today's Christian Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Yonatan Alex Arifianto ◽  
Reni Triposa ◽  
Paulus Karaeng Lembongan
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Great Commission ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Biblical Study ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive

Abstract Christianity in the spiritual growth and quantity of the church cannot be separated from believers who carry out the mandate of the Great Commission. But in the accompanying journey of God there is not much that can be done by believers in mission and discipleship. So with that focus and purpose of this research is to answer the research question of how the Bible study of mission and discipleship in the Great Commission and its implications for Christian life today. While the problem that occurs in this research work is how Discipleship and mission are not properly understood in the current era so that many prioritize mission but override discipleship or vice versa. But the benefits of this research are: first, the importance of mission in the Great Commission, then the importance of discipleship for believers and continuity and the last implies mission and discipleship as life priorities. To describe the biblical study of mission and discipleship in the Great Commission and its implications for contemporary Christian life, researchers used library research methods with quantitative descriptive approaches.

Extraterrestrial Exegesis: The Raëëlian Movement as a Biblical Religion

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene V. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Bible Study ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
The Bible ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Biblical Religion

Interpretation of the Bible has played a central role in the origins and development of the Raëëlian movement. Claude Vorilhon's first encounter with the "Elohim" was immediately followed by an intensive week of Bible study that gave him a new identity as the messianic prophet "Raëël," a new direction for his life as the earthly ambassador of the Elohim, and a new doctrine that would serve as the intellectual foundation of a new religious movement. The Raëëlian movement and other new religions in which interpretation of the Bible figure prominently do not originate one-sidedly in a "cultic milieu" or "occulture" that is divorced from the broad biblical tradition. Rather, they represent creative blendings of biblical and other sources. Part of the attractiveness of the Bible for new religions is that it contains and legitimizes multiple examples of successful religious innovation.

scholarly journals Learning to Take Scripture Seriously

ANVIL ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Evan D. Garner
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The Church ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract This paper is mainly the product of an international conference on sexuality and scripture that was held in Limuru, Kenya, during the summer of 2013. For almost two-thousand years, Christians have held different views on the role and authority of scripture in the Church. Those differences were made manifest by the participants in this conference. Largely because of their diverse cultural backgrounds, leaders from different parts of the global Christian community continue to use the Bible in the debates over human sexuality in remarkably different ways. This paper identifies the Contextual Bible Study method as a promising hermeneutical tool for finding agreement in the interpretation of scripture among individuals from such diverse backgrounds and from competing theological positions. After reviewing the Contextual Bible Study method and its applicability to the issue of human sexuality, the paper suggests the benefits of leaving behind familiar arguments over those passages of scripture most often cited in these debates in favour of a robust discussion of yet largely unexplored theological arguments.

scholarly journals MODEL PEMBINAAN REMAJA DI ERA PANDEMIK DENGAN PA BGA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
Hasahatan Hutahaean ◽  
Berton Bostang Hamonangan Silaban
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Great Passion

This Community Service is aimed at the youth category for Bible study activities. In the pandemic era since the end of February 2020, various activities in the realm of stewardship must also participate in government recommendations as part of breaking the chain of coronavirus transmission. Therefore, online media is used to create youth coaching by selecting the zoom application in its implementation. The coaching method starts with planning, implementing, finding partners for cooperation, and implementing activities. Of course, it ends with an evaluation of the activities. The Bible study model used this time is reading the Bible from the narrative genre. The community service team found great passion in youth while participating in Bible study coaching using the Bible Digging Method (BGA). The method was felt to be simple, practical, and able to bring Bible readers to find text messages. The implementation of community service must be carried out and pursued even in a pandemic situation. Youth spirituality is very important to build their future. The Word of God is a powerful material for developing youth spirituality, for a fresh, strong, and alert spiritual life

For the mind's eye only: puritans, images and ‘the golden mines of Scripture’

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Hardman Moore
Keyword(s):  
Bible Study ◽  
Reformed Theology ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Clean Break ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Mind's Eye ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Seventeenth-century puritans had the habit of speaking visually, talking pictures. Sermons and tracts from the English-speaking Reformed tradition made lavish use of vivid verbal images drawn from the Bible. Yet zealous Protestants wanted to strip images out of churches and books – and, some would say, even from the mind – in an ‘inner iconoclasm’ to match the outer. So why fill the mind's eye with pictures?It is often thought that Protestantism, particularly of the Reformed variety, saw a decisive shift from the visual to the verbal. However, the move was by no means a clean break. Visual elements survived aplenty, though often transposed into new forms. The complexity of these changes has been well recognised by recent scholars, but the focus has been more on outward and material aspects of Protestant culture than on words (or, more accurately, the Word) as image-makers for the mind.To understand the drive for verbal imaging in puritanism with more precision, this paper considers the experience of readers in a culture where print was new; aspects of Reformed theology that paved the way, in particular the stress on the unity of scripture that promoted interest in typology; the boost that new printed aids to Bible study – specifically, concordances – gave to drawing ‘mental pictures’ from scripture; and the relation of all this to making the Bible both easy to handle and memorable, which was a key element in the strategy to drive the Protestant message into the hearts and minds of the people.

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