Sentences with phrase «biblical histories handed»

There they were in the illustrations to the antiquated children's biblical histories handed down from class to class in my parochial school; exotic, powerful female creatures with their veils and sandals and the bracelets they wore on their upper arms and ankles as well as on their wrists.

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But Marian dogma stands too free of biblical warrant, and Roman primacy has too complicated a history for me to see with clarity the hand of God behind it.

In any case, the biblical contribution to spirituality is not to belittle this world in order to indulge in an otherworldly exaltation but rather to keep our feet in the soil of this good earth and our hands in the soiled workings of human culture and history in order to re-create them.

There is a fascinating story here to be told - but one which would take us too far afield from this discussion - about the intricate interplay between the crises of biblical authority and Christian belief on the one hand and the rise of the novel and the growth of art history and literary criticism on the other.

The contributions on the one hand of Biblical, historical and systematic theology, of history, the sociology of religion and the theology of culture; and on the other, the practical experiments and experiences in ecumenical, national, municipal and parish organization of church life, will, one may hope, eventually be brought together in some kind of temporary historical synthesis.

Compiled and written in his own hand between 1090 and 1120 by Lambert, the canon of St. Omer, in northern France, the encyclopedia encompasses astronomical, biblical, geographical, and natural history subjects.