Sentences with phrase «ancient source texts»

The foundations for alignment, i.e. a healthy practice, were thus already laid in the ancient source texts of Hatha Yoga.

As son of a family of scholars, Krishnamacharya, who, in addition to that worked himself a lot and with great attention on the ancient source texts, knew precisely where to look: already at the beginning of the 20th century, scholars knew that the Nāṭh tradition or, Hatha Yoga, had been passed on in the remote mountains of the Himalaya.

It was with him that Krishnamacharya studied philosophy, learned ancient source texts as well as the physical yoga practice.

Not exact matches

To those theologians who contend that the life and resurrection of Jesus is one of the most documented events in ancient history, both in scripture and recorded history, Berger asks them to produce «one single police report» from a nonpartisan source that wasn't inserted into the text far after the fact!

The heroes of modern - day evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.

Suppose, however, that one has strong reservations about the historical reliability of the texts, especially the larger - than - life description of Solomon, and one believes that any proper history of ancient Israel must be based on firsthand sources.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

The source material is literally ancient, so it's highly refreshing whenever a filmmaker decides to approach it unconventionally, unafraid to deviate from the consensus understandings of the deeply subjective text.