Sentences with phrase «in sacred literatures»

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Fourth, although there is a fixed canon in most religions, it is also true that there is often a body of supplementary literature which, while theoretically less sacred, does nevertheless constitute a highly important source of direction for faith and practice.

For there is much religious literature that is not regarded as sacred; and a great deal of the content of so - called sacred literature is not necessarily directly religious at all, though indirectly it is usually in some way linked up with religion.

Other literature may be studied critically, every method of literary analysis and criticism may be employed, but not so in the case of the sacred.

Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

First, sacred literatures are, as a usual rule, regarded as in some sense the word of God or the gods, revealed to man.

As a natural corollary of this view, sacred literatures stand in a class apart from other literature.

Theology first appears in Western literature in Hesiod's Theogony, and appears there as systematic discourse about the acts of divine or sacred beings.

Despite its considerable currency, the idea of religion as sacred canopy seems not to have been grasped in more than a superficial way in much of the literature.

But even here there existed all the «makings» of sacred literature, and in some cases they had gone far toward collecting these materials and handing them on verbally from generation to generation.

But it is in order to ask whether there is not an imperative in every age for the production of «sacred» literature which will express — possibly better than the ancient writings — the deepest religious insights and experiences of civilization.

America occupies the position today of imperial Rome in stabilizing the world, and Kaplan recommends a sacred canon of literature to guide leaders who wield such power: Livy, Sun Tzu, Thucydides.

If all the books which are comprised within these two classes of sacred literature were to be brought together in a single collection, as has nowhere yet been done, they would fill many thousands of pages.

Within Hindu sacred literature may be found, as in most scripture, almost every type of writing.

The Song properly belongs in a canon of sacred literature from a people who were able to look at all the gifts of a rich creation with gratitude to the Giver and joy in the gift.

Though the doctrine of reincarnation was worked out in much greater detail in subsequent Hindu sacred literature, it is expressed in the Lipanishads in rudimentary form thus:

Four of the eleven principal living faiths of the world were born in India: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, and all have extensive sacred literatures.

But they did have a very extensive sacred literature which was highly influential in the expression of their faith, and to some extent in the determination of that faith.

This highly conservative Calvinist argues that because biblical interpretation «deals with a book that is unique in the realm of literature, viz. with the Bible as the inspired Word of God,» we must develop a sacred interpretative science of a «very special character (page 11).

When we begin to get spiritually curious outside the box of our assigned religion, we begin to survey the at first baffling array of sacred literature that is held in just as high an esteem by their adherents as the Bible is held by Christians.

To be sure so distinguished a scholar as Robert W. Rogers1 does affirm that they had sacred books, that indeed they had little else in their literature.

On its deeper side, it has something to do with his sense of the sacred, which persisted despite a lifelong inability to believe in the usual sense of the word, and infused his work with larger dimensions than most of the literature of his time.

What is needed by the ordinary student, it seems to the writer, is a single volume which will provide an adequate, if not an exhaustive, discussion of the great sacred literatures in non-technical language, so that he may better understand and appreciate what the anthologies so generously provide him.

In any survey of sacred literatures of the world's religions written primarily for occidental readers, the writer is always somewhat at a loss as to how to deal with the Bible.

Skeptics of the Bible Code claim to have found codes in non «sacred literature, and the results of their research can be found on the web.

The sacred success story in environmental literature is that of Rachel Carson, who awakened America to the dangers of indiscriminate pesticide use and led the charge to ban the sale of DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons in the United States.

Walden Pond is a sacred place in American literature, a symbol of one man's effort to savor and preserve the natural world.

Synthesizing sacred geometries with 20th century avant - garde literature, Chimes remained largely isolated from contemporary art circles over the course of his long career in Philadelphia, working with a singular intensity that is perhaps best ascribed to the archetype of the hermetic alchemist.

Language and literature play an increasing role as material for their multifaceted work, from the philosophical underpinnings in Bertolt Brecht's War Primer to the sacred texts of the Holy Bible itself, both books having been refashioned and recreated by the artists in their own ambiguous, combatant image.