Exegesis
Essays

This paper examines the career of William F. Albright and shows it influenced his belief in Christianity and not how his religion affected his scientific inquiry, as his critics have attempted to show. Albright's study of Biblical archeology presented to evidence that the claims of the Bible were true and therefore part of history.

Jacob's actions in lines 1-14 of this chapter show his level of restraint, humility, and wisdom; therefore his actions serve as a guide or model; the authors were intending to use the allegory as a moral instruction.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate, from the writings of those authors on whom custom has conferred the name of Fathers of the Church, the procedure of growth in Christian thought, life, and adoration for the duration of the period which concluded with the approval of the Christian faith and The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity in Johanine and Pauline Theologies.

Allen (1984), Brown (2007), and Kaiser (1994) are like three points on a unidirectional continuum. Allen (1984) is adamant that the Scripture is the Word is the Scripture, and argues that the Scripture is God preaching. Very little room for interpretation or for tacking toward relevance is indicated by Allen's position. Brown (2007) offers a rigorous cognitive framework for approaching the reading of Scripture, and calls on the reader to meet her exacting intellectual standards and respond in a rigorous manner—a position that seems wholly appropriate given that Brown views Scriptural reading as a conversation with God. Brown's communicative theory is considerably more open than Allen's and more flexible than a structuralistic approach, which would preclude attributing substantive importance to individual components of the Scripture. For Brown, and proponents of speech-act theory, the individual components of Scripture may be the hooks on which understanding rests. Kaiser takes a principled view with regard to understanding the Scriptures in the context of the modern world. To those who would object to his "going beyond the Bible," he has at the ready examples of how the Church does exactly that, at its convenience and unabashedly argues that adjustments are made according to "views it believes God to hold true" (Kaiser, 1994). In this regard, Kaiser's criticism points to the Church's willingness to apply a literary criticism approach to Scripture, citing relevance to contemporary society as the pivot point. The very theological paradigms to which Allen (1984) objects are to Kaiser (1994) a natural outcome of a literary criticism approach to Biblical interpretation. The theological paradigms are needed to make assertions about what is Biblical, that is, what God requires in a given situation. Brown posits a more personal and rigorous approach to Scriptural interpretation—demanding that multiple perspectives be considered, to the degree that the essence of a communicative theory of Biblical interpretation contains aspects of literary criticism, structural criticism, and reader-response criticism.

Exegesis and critique of conference paper, "Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared." A compare and contrast look at the fundamentals to Grid and Cloud computing platforms. Particularly noting security, architecture, business models, applications, and data models of each. Supports a view of computing as evolving towards commodification and utility-like access, but accommodating both customization and standardization simultaneously.

James Dunn's book: The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a traditional exegesis of the religious phenomenon which has been relegated in modern times to the Pentecostal Christian churches.

Carl Rogers was probably the most important psychologist and psychotherapist of the 20th Century apart from Sigmund Freud, and his humanistic, person-centered approach has been applied to many fields outside of psychology, such as education, business, nursing, medicine and social work. Many of the basic textbooks in all of these fields reflect his influence, including the concept of learner-centered education and the use of the term ‘clients' instead of ‘patients'. He wrote over 100 academic books and articles, the most famous one being On Becoming a Person (1961) which clearly describes his main ideas and is summarized below.

The Four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are four of the most controversial books in what makes up what we know as the modern Bible. They are the first four books of the New Testament and depending upon the view…

The Development of the American National Character

Fee and Stuart in "How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth", show the applicability of the Bible and provide readers with the tools of applying the Bible to their contemporary lives. For them there is no "then and there" to the text, rather than "then and there" of the text can equitably be applied to the "here and now" of contemporaneous living. The authors in effect build two bridges; there is the bridge between Church and lay man and the bridge between Church and exegetical scholar. Whilst the exegetical scholar approaches the text from the past trying to see ‘what it meant", the author tell us that the text is far more than that: it is applicable not only for the "then" but also for the "now" and, therefore, people should approach it with the intent of ‘what does it mean" and "what will it mean". In other words, each of us, regardless of scholarly background, should connect the '''then and there' of the original text to the 'here and now' of our own life settings" (p. 10). The operative premise is that the texts of the living Word "mean what they meant" (p. 11).