Sentences with phrase «authority of the sacred texts»
«Do not let yourself be guided by the authority of the sacred texts, nor by simple logic, nor by appearance or opinion, nor even by the teachings of your master; when you know in yourself that something is bad, then give it up, and accept the good and follow it.»
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Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that «the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers be struck to obsolescence by religious authorities,» so that «no believer can refer to a sacred text to commit a crime.»
Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»
However, the inquiry that paideia calls for begins with the assumption of the authority of certain texts in regard to both secular and sacred matters.
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.