Sentences with phrase «authoritative text»

An authoritative text is a piece of writing that is considered reliable and trustworthy because it comes from a knowledgeable or respected source. It is often used as a reference or guide in a particular field or topic. Full definition
David is also co-author of Carswell's authoritative text on independent contractors in the workplace, «HR Manager's Guide to Independent Contractors in the Workplace».
Meanwhile there is no single authoritative text of the Othmanic Koran.
They see within the Church's propensity to confess what it believes to be an absolute imperative, and, what's more, the Church's doctrinal confessions DO present some sort of authoritative text for the believer.
His interest in authoritative texts as generative of social reality is manifested in his large - scale, labor - intensive drawings that are composed entirely out of handwritten text.
Wittingly or unwittingly, they presume a scripturalist interpretation of Islam, imagining that we can explain Islamic terrorism by drawing a straight line between authoritative texts and the actions of jihadists.
He really believes the core teachings of his faith are true, and with good reason: Perhaps he trusts authoritative texts, the teachings are the best explanation of his religious experience, or the teachings help him to make sense of some important aspect of the world.
Certainly it was politically desirable to have one authoritative text accepted over the empire, when one recalls how much of the actual legislation depended upon it.
Leonora Onarheim Bergsjø, Ph.D., is a researcher at the University of Oslo and Head of Administration at the national research school Authoritative Texts and Their Reception (ATTR).
Authoritative texts such as those published by Irwin Law are an important and authoritative source of legal definitions, especially with regard to new legal terminology.
This is a comprehensive, definitive, authoritative text on cognitive defusion: what it is, how to use it in session, and why it works.
That is why we have to use a whole different lens for interpreting any authoritative text.
Yet he refuses to collapse biblical theology into the history of the religion of Israel, distinguishing the two this way: ««History of religion» is concerned with all the forms and aspects of all human religions, while theology tends to be concerned with the truth - claims of one religion and especially with its authoritative texts and traditions and their interpretations.»
Of course, most theologians make no such extreme claim about any one authoritative text.
If I want to argue with my Gelukpa Buddhist friends, it is of no use to quote the Bible to them as an authoritative text, and hope to get anywhere thereby — not, at least, unless I'm prepared to offer a prior and independent argument as to why the Bible should be regarded as an authoritative text.
Though no longer the authoritative text for the cultural at large, the Bible is still the most important single book in American public life.
Whereas all authoritative texts are normative, not all normative texts are authoritative.
The natural basis for Islamic views is emphasized by authoritative texts or nusus.
If God had really wanted us to have an authoritative text by which we could defend our beliefs from all those who hold contrary beliefs, it seems He would have written a different sort of book, and would have included more frequent and more clearly stated references to the nature of this book.
The editors have chosen to work with what is essentially the Protestant Bible, which, unlike the Catholic Bible, the Hebrew Bible or the Bible of Greek Judaism, is the authoritative text of the central anglophone tradition.
The Yoga Sutra, widely regarded as the authoritative text on yoga, is a collection of aphorisms, outlining the eight limbs of yoga.
With more than 400 pages of stunning photographs, maps, illustrations and authoritative text, the writers and editors of National Geographic trace the origins and spread of the world's five great religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
To learn more about Elliot Wave, you should refer to the authoritative text, Elliott Wave Principle: Key To Market Behavior.
If the continued debate between sculpture's relationship between landscape and architecture is your bag, come hear authors and contributors to the new book, Retracing the Expanded Field, revisit Krauss's authoritative text, as well as discuss sculptural debates today.
It combines the work of more than 200 artists and craftsmen, who fashioned their tributes in stone, bronze and stained glass — all of which are recorded here in an authoritative text by Duncan Macmillan and with stunning new photography by Antonia Reeve.
(3) Mashey is wrong; although Wegman is not following Bradley here, he is following another authoritative text which disagrees with Bradley that is listed in his bibliography.
Dr. Turner was instrumental in returning the classic books in Sandplay to print, and is the author of what is considered by some to be the authoritative text on Jungian Sandplay, The Handbook of Sandplay Therapy, now translated into Korean, Chinese, Russian and Italian.
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