Sentences with phrase «books as»

You're holding man made religion and books as if they are what god literally said.

You can not pick and choose the verses, but must read the entire Bible and all the books as a unified whole.

The workshop employs a dynamic presentation of the texts of the ritual books themselves as the basis for a rich theological understanding of the way in which the Word becomes flesh in and through thecelebration of the Sacred Liturgy.

These books as well as many others provide insightful ways on how to raise children with respect and dignity that help in the holistic building up of a person.

But I am convinced that this is a matter not of personal taste — I love drama as much as epic, in the abstract, and I probably enjoy Dostoevsky's books as much as Tolstoy's, if in a very different way — but simply of good taste.

All the great literate traditions have taken certain books as formative of their deepest beliefs and have read them, commented on them, and understood them in changing ways over their entire history.

Despite how this passage is sometimes used in sermons and books as an attempt to get the rich to give more money to the church, the point of this passage actually lies elsewhere.

Today, he lives in the minds of the weak seeking answers, the oppressed seeking salvation, and those who have the ability to use old books as a tool for gaining money and power.

Already Old Testament scholarship recognised that such books as Job, Jonah and Esther were more edifying novels than history.

One man working in an industrial laboratory, with half his salary paid by the government, was given his instructions beforehand: «Any discoveries you make which have any scientific or commercial value, and any work you do which is at all profitable, is to appear on the books as having been done on «company time»; the rest is the government's half of your time.

A familiarity with the Bible helps students fathom such books as The Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, and Lord of the Rings.

Less directly Bible centered, but with biblical titles and themes with which the Bible is concerned, are such books as Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, and Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes.

Protestants and Catholics will have to judge for themselves how well the declaration succeeds in stating «a consensus in basic truths,» and whether it makes the case that the 16th - century condemnations do not apply — even though they remain on the books as «salutary warnings,» to which teaching and preaching must attend.

Lutherans accept these books as authoritative because they understand them to be faithful witnesses to the teachings of Scripture.

There may be apparent anachronisms in certain aspects of the Book of Mormon, but the same could also be said of any book of scripture and many old science books as well.

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This free ebook contains everything I have learned so far about publishing books as eBooks and paperback books.

I am a proud member of the first camp, seeing epic and eternal themes in the books as worthy of discussion and the violence as a part of the fictional world that tells the story.

In quite different ways, so have such other widely read books as Charles Wood's Vision and Discernment: An Orientation in Theological Study [3] and Max L. Stackhouse's Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education.

Nevertheless, without this idea we might possibly never have had such books as the Gospels, and in consequence the Christian religion might not have continued to bear within itself the means of its own correction, revitalization, and renewal.

I shall do this under a few headings but very briefly — for further explanation the reader may wish to consult such books as my own Lure of Divine Love (Pilgrim Press and T. and T. Clark, 1981) or Peter N. Hamilton's The Living God and the Modern World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968).

Of course, millions have needlessly died for the words in those books as well (Crusades, Terrorist, Religious fanatics of all sorts).

They also established a house to publish his many books as well as her writings.

As a boy I loved his Narnia books as adventure stories; the Christian symbolism was lost on me.

Seen about Parents in Holy Books as a Start?!

But they did all of them have writings which corresponded closely to various portions of sacred books as found in other religions.

And of course, he writes books as a job, so he can take that with him.

The next thing to say is that, as the believer, theologian, and preacher that I am, I read Scripture in the way followed before me by Chrysostom (regularly), Augustine (fitfully), and all Western professional exegetes since Colet, Luther, and Calvin that is, I approach the books as human documents produced by people of like passions with myself.

Fourth conviction: The basic form of obedient theology is applicatory interpretation of Scripture in the manner described, reading the books as God's witness to his saving grace in Christ and God's call to sinners to believe and respond.

I read these books as units of responsive, didactic, celebratory, doxological witness to the living God.

(Read such books as Wisdom before your religion = violence comments).

This lag is evident even in such books as Philip Jenkins's widely read The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (2002).

Hopefully I can get out the 100 % written books as they just need to be edited, typeset, and published.

He experiences these two books as «a. benediction.»

Peale is variously known for such best - selling books as The Power of Positive Thinking (with 14 printings within two years of its 1952 release) and for his regular appearances at presidential prayer breakfasts.

They started out to reprint important works either out of print or available in cheaply made and / or expensive copies but then saw the need to publish new books as well.

A midwest book salesman, who probably reads as many religious books as most theologians, makes a comment on evangelical churches that applies to many evangelical best sellers: «They show a steady growth, but I fear it is immature.

From the perspective of the complete books as coherent statements, one will regard not the sentence but the paragraph (or the equivalent for poetry, the stanza) as the basic unit of thought.

American Bishop John Spong has taken on his own Anglican communion almost single - handedly, writing such books as Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism.

Such books as Leviticus and Song of Songs, however, cry out for spiritual interpretation if they are to be read profitably by Christians.

He devoured sci - fi books as a child, prompting the nickname «Child Genius», though this made him somewhat of a loner and a target for bullies.

«But don't forget that I also read a lot of comic books as I was growing up, and I think that might have influenced me just as much.

And it's also cresting a wave of enhanced electronic books as one of the most high - profile literary works to take advantage of the new abilities of readers such as Apple's iPad and other tablet computers.

The 20 - year - old NASCAR driver was racing in just his second Sprint Cup competition and is now etched in the record books as the youngest driver to win the sports» biggest race.

One of the problems when you treat a collection of books as a contiguous whole — interpretations are used that assume a continuity that doesn't exits.

In such books as Beyond Humanism, Man's Vision of God, A Natural Theology for Our Time, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, and The Logic of Perfection, Hartshorne has been indefatigable in the presentation of this «di - polar» position.

(The dipolar understanding of God has been brilliantly and thoroughly expounded by Hartshorne in such books as Man's Vision of God, The Divine Relativity, and Philosophers Speak of God.)

We can take Jones's and Grey's books as two indications of the kind of sophisticated saving work under way in feminist theology.

(Joe loved these books as well, some more than others, so I figure they're okay for the 4 - 7 year old set.)

Let's face it — you don't have to be a scholar of any kind to know that no real God would have given such bizarre, tangled, contradictory and downright weird books as his Word on Earth.