Sentences with phrase «almost holy scripture»

This doctrine [the efficient market hypothesis] became highly fashionable — indeed, almost holy scripture in academic circles during the 1970s.

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The letter, as Brad Stone reports in The Everything Store, has «become the equivalent of holy scripture inside Amazon,» evidence that Amazon emerged almost fully formed in Bezos's imagination.

It is true that Jewish Rabbinic writers often wrote about «the Holy Scriptures,» but it is also true that many Rabbinic writers could be accused of almost deifying the Bible.

It lies close enough to us even though they wish to keep away from any such unfortunate ones and to avoid all sober reminders not alone from the careless judgment of the storyteller's art, but also from the church and from the edifying insight that must certainly know that the Holy Scriptures have almost a predilection for the halt and the lame, the blind and the lepers.

The Bible is almost always present, since any medieval text was, no matter what its style, to some degree a continuation or concretization of the Holy Scripture.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.