This paper seeks to critique some of the developments in the study of the use of the Jewish scriptures in the New Testament writings. The focus is upon studies that have emerged subsequent to, and are indebted to, Richard Hays’ Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. The argument here is not that there are no citations, allusions, or echoes of the Jewish scriptures in the New Testament writ...

Biblical noematic, that is, the science of meanings Holy Scriptures, and heuristics, finding these meanings, were central to exegesis Hrygorii Skovoroda. Under influence teachings fathers Alexandrian school, they changed their methodological principles, transformed a certain extent moved towards comprehensive allegory Scriptures in author's system its interpretation.
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Filial piety is one of the cardinal moral values in Confucianism, and has become a keystone Chinese social value system, describing prescribing proper functioning human communities at micro (family) macro (state) levels. The introduction Buddhism, which advocates that only those who live celibacy pursuing career monk can easily have access to highest truth, challenged uniformly accepted obligat...

atholic health care is embedded in a moral tradition that has been formed by a profound dynamic between word and deed, thought and action, theory and practice. The ministry's words, thoughts, and theories have been informed by a larger faith tradition encompassing the Scriptures; the official teachings of the church; reflections and ideas of theologians; and the insights of philosophers, econom...