Sentences with phrase «called sacred literature»

For there is much religious literature that is not regarded as sacred; and a great deal of the content of so - called sacred literature is not necessarily directly religious at all, though indirectly it is usually in some way linked up with religion.

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It will be worthwhile looking at some of this material, as a phase of what we call pre-literary sacred literature.

Its vastness, its diversity, on the whole, its lack of discriminating judgment as to what may be called sacred — so that it includes both the highly moral and the base — make it a literature difficult for peoples of Hebrew - Christian backgrounds to appreciate fully.