Sentences with phrase «as holy texts»

As the Holy Text tells us: «The age of evil has come to the world.

And so we will also see the reclusive Hammons's Holy Bible: Old Testament (2002) in which a 1997 copy of The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp by Arturo Schwartz is rebound as holy text.

Not exact matches

The written Logion — Oracles, the Holy Scripture were committed to Israel's keeping and still to this day exists as the one and only Hebrew text (amidst all the different versions / translations of the Bible).

The BIble, when interpreted by the Holy Spirit (and all our best efforts to hear the texts as the original hearers would have understood them), is the Word of God.

In this perspective on this key text (John 1:14) we have a remarkable prophetic description not only of the Incarnation but also of the Holy Eucharist and of the Tabernacle, as part of the very plan of God in sending Christ into the world.

In this key text Jesus links the whole plan of God from the beginning to the Holy Eucharist — «As I who am sent by the living Father... so whoever eats me will draw life from me».

After all the controversy of last week, it's tempting to turn this post into a discussion on gendered language around the Holy Spirit (feminine in Hebrew and Aramaic, typically neuter in Greek, masculine in this particular text), but that's just not how this passage is «singing» to me today, so instead I'd like to focus on Jesus» stirring and tender words in verse 18: «I will not leave you as orphans.»

This statement is often cited as a universal description of the holy otherness and imperceptibility of God, but anyone familiar with other texts will hear the soft whisper of a reply, «Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God» (Matt.

The chanting of the holy texts raises them up from the mundane and presents them «as on a platter of gold», in the words of Fr Josef Jungmann.

In Jewish tradition, we frequently speak in terms of «Written Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holy.)

During that time, we studied the story of Joseph as it appears in both of our traditions — in holy text (Torah and Qur «an) and in commentary (midrash and tafsir)-- and also learned a lot about each other.

A full English rite for Holy Mass as well as texts for Baptism, Reception and Confirmation, Holy Matrimony, and Funerals are already approved by the Holy See and in use around the world.

Why do you follow the bible as opposed to other holy texts and oral traditions?

We see many great people of God throughout the Bible at their lowest points and how their faith in God led them to be used for great things (and so despite their grievous sin we see them as holy because they grew and showed great faith and fruit) but what about those in the Bible who are said to have believed but are never heard from again in the text?

Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.

Nearly all religions claim the Bible as part of their «holy writings» but not all agree on texts like the Quran or the Book or Mormon.

These exegetes were: capable of setting free the spirit bottled up in the composition of holy scripture... Insofar as they themselves did not create the text which is to be interpreted, the source of the spirit, they are subordinated to it.

In my opinion it takes more faith to live with the mystery, struggle to hold together all the opposites and seek to listen to the Holy Spirit for your own unique life's circumstances than it does to simply quote chapter and text as if the Christian walk is a predictable black & white / cause & effect existence.

As for «jihad» itself, not only is the word «jihad» mentioned in several places within the their koran, such as the infamous Sura 9 («Verse of the Sword»), there are over 150 calls to «holy war» AKA «jihad: scattered throughout the entire text of this hateful bookAs for «jihad» itself, not only is the word «jihad» mentioned in several places within the their koran, such as the infamous Sura 9 («Verse of the Sword»), there are over 150 calls to «holy war» AKA «jihad: scattered throughout the entire text of this hateful bookas the infamous Sura 9 («Verse of the Sword»), there are over 150 calls to «holy war» AKA «jihad: scattered throughout the entire text of this hateful book..

So sacred was it held to be at the time of the making of the Code of Manu, greatest of the law books, that it was therein decreed that a lowly Sudra, i.e., low caste man, who so much as listened to the sacred text would have molten metal poured into his ears, and his tongue cut out if he pronounced the sacred words of the holy Vedas.1 «Whether such laws were ever actually enforced may be doubted.

At least I give you credit for accepting (partially) this horror as part of your holy text.

There is no proof that your particular god exists, nor that he is accountable for his obvious mistakes and wrongdoings, such as many natural disasters and all the apparent flaws in his designs and «holy» text.

But I have long ago come to the conclusion that the bible, as well as any other holy text, is an imperfect representation of God from a very imperfect human perspective.

Donald Bloesch, on the other hand, gives the Holy Spirit a more explicit discussion, seeing the theologians task as discovering not only «the intent of the author but also the way in which the Spirit uses this text to reveal the saving work of Jesus Christ.»

As with sacred Scripture, so with the exercise of the Petrine ministry: the truth or otherwise of a teaching is based on the authority invested in it — in both cases, by God himself, guaranteed by his Holy Spirit — rather than on the identity, oftentimes unknown, of this or that composer (or composers) of a particular text.

As far as anyone knows, out of all the Jesuses back then, only the name of one of the was so holy as to be abbreviated in sacred texts as a nomen sacrum, or sacred namAs far as anyone knows, out of all the Jesuses back then, only the name of one of the was so holy as to be abbreviated in sacred texts as a nomen sacrum, or sacred namas anyone knows, out of all the Jesuses back then, only the name of one of the was so holy as to be abbreviated in sacred texts as a nomen sacrum, or sacred namas to be abbreviated in sacred texts as a nomen sacrum, or sacred namas a nomen sacrum, or sacred name.

As well as polemics Luther was writing his pastoral theology, his Fourteen Consolations for the very ill Elector, and a text on The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy and True Body of Christ, compared in its nature as a fellowship event with the degenerate «religious» fellowship of the craft brotherhoodAs well as polemics Luther was writing his pastoral theology, his Fourteen Consolations for the very ill Elector, and a text on The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy and True Body of Christ, compared in its nature as a fellowship event with the degenerate «religious» fellowship of the craft brotherhoodas polemics Luther was writing his pastoral theology, his Fourteen Consolations for the very ill Elector, and a text on The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy and True Body of Christ, compared in its nature as a fellowship event with the degenerate «religious» fellowship of the craft brotherhoodas a fellowship event with the degenerate «religious» fellowship of the craft brotherhoods.

However, the use of «she» as a pronoun for the Holy Spirit is more than a matter of personal choice; such usage appears to have some theological possibilities, especially if serious attention is given to certain research on early Christian texts, apocryphal as well as canonical.

In dismissing the feminine Holy Spirit as an idea present only in «obscure and heretical sects on the periphery of the Christian church,» Jewett had relied on research that did not take into account the 1945 discovery near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of some 50 ancient texts.

And it is the Scriptures that I am concerned with — not biblical texts as records of discrete historical times, but rather the Bible as a coherent unit, brought together under the auspices of the Holy Spirit and fitted in God's providence for leading Christians to the contemplation of the Triune God as revealed in the text, the Church, and the world.

... In general, We require that future priests, from the time of Seminary onward, be trained to understand and celebrate Holy Mass in Latin as well as to employ Latin texts and use Gregorian chant; nor should great effort be neglected in regard to the faithful themselves, so that they learn thoroughly the commonly known prayers in the Latin language and in an equal degree that they should learn the Gregorian chant of those parts of the liturgy which are sung.

Times when Henry VIII's secretary wrote in grim jest to his friend Erasmus that the scarcity and dearness of wood in England were due to the quantities wasted in burning heretics, or when later the Puritan Cartwright, defending by Biblical texts the barbarities of religious persecution, exclaimed, «If this be regarded as extreme and bloodie I am glad to be so with the Holy Ghost»?

For others its value was more as heritage, not a statement they expected to be implemented but of value as a kind of holy text.

It is the language of the holy Indian texts such as the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and the Vedas.

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.