Implicitly or explicitly, a pervasive motif is the relation between the philosophical and the biblical.
Such a construction denied the "polyphonic" nature of tradition that historically allowed for a plurality of voices in biblical interpretation.
The biblical authority vested in these scriptural representations of heredity has not been lost on its champions.
As the biblical case demonstrates, then, there is nothing curious about samaritan responsibilities requiring one to per form a specific course of action.
Some of them look somewhat like eagles, others like geese, but there is no obvious biblical symbolism or mythical significance to support the identification.
Whatever their differences over predestination they employed the same arguments to support toleration, arguments turning on biblical hermeneutics.
It is clear that the question of biblical inspiration was foremost at the time.
Applying a new historical criticism, he showed that biblical teaching and law were irrelevant for a modern pluralistic state and its intellectual life.
