Sentences with phrase «central texts of»

Many of us knew that the Scriptures had a lot to say about the Creation, but we began to realize that some of the key things were central texts of evangelical Christianity.»

We moderns have rediscovered that Jesus was the poor man par excellence, that he came for the poor, that it is to the poor that he promised the Kingdom, that the poor man on earth in fact represents Jesus Christ; and we remember that the parable in Matthew 25 (on the judgment of nations) is the central text of the revelation.

Not exact matches

What Governor Rajan did say, in his remarks made off the attached written text, was that the policies followed by major central banks around the world were in danger of slipping into the kind of beggar - thy - neighbour strategies that were followed in the 1930s.

In the Biblical Manuscript P72, dating from 175 - 200AD, and containing the entire text of 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and Jude, in this, we find 2 Peter 1:1 — ``... our God and Savior, Jesus Christ...» proving that the deity of Jesus was NOT a construct of Emperor Constantine (Roman Emperor from 306 - 337) as was proclaimed by Dan Brown in his book «The DaVinci Code,» but rather, this was a central teaching of the disciples from day 1.

During this Year of Faith the texts of the Council and Catechism will be central to our efforts as Catholics to rediscover and share with others the gift of Faith entrusted to the Church.

Since I had, from my initial article, emphasized the element of divine judgment over the nation, quoting the great lines from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address as my central text, I could not but find such an interpretation abhorrent.

Who you are I know only if you will allow me to sense — through a gesture, a text, a symbol, a story, a theory, a way of life — what central vision of existence actually empowers your life.

For instance, a figure whom the text treats as a subsidiary character may become for feminist analysis the central character of the text (e.g., Jepthah's daughter in Judges, chapter 11, or the Levite's concubine in Judges, chapter 19).

In order that the central theme may stand out clearly, its statement will be followed by a discussion of the context in which the text is set, indicating some of its sources and relationships.

With regard to translation in the literal sense, Eugene Nida used to say regularly that no translation from one language to another can ever be perfectly accurate, but that in every specific interlinguistic interface it is possible to find a substantially adequate rendering of the central point of the original text.

It is unavoidable, nonetheless, that within the process of reading this story acceptingly there should be in particular cases some selectivity as to which of the texts are found most central.

We have questioned how a book as cynical and pessimistic as Ecclesiastes could have found its way into the canon, failing to see the text's central affirmation of our work and play as gifts from God to be enjoyed.

However, even independently of their bearing on the Church's interpretation of Jesus» life, death, and resurrection, these texts have been held holy for the simple reason that they give authoritative expression to the central themes of promise and hope that constitute the core of biblical faith.

One might argue (as does Vischer) that the more specific intent of the text is to point out how the original fall or original sin gives rise to a primal murder, though it is impossible to ascertain what is genuinely historical in this saga, nor should this even be attempted if we are to remain true to the central thrust of this passage.

Why and how did the theologians charged with drafting the text of Nostra Aetate rediscover the central importance and theological depth of chapters nine to eleven of Paul's Epistle to the Romans?

It is especially instructive in this regard that Locke gives special attention to Romans 13, the New Testament passage that is usually seen as the central text for Paul's understanding of the role of government.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

For a fairly recent and useful collection of texts related to Panikkar's central theme, see Invisible Harmony.

The text continues to hold on to the temple as a central source of hope for Israel, but it also knows that temple hope is profoundly problematic because it makes assumptions about God's availability which crowd God and can not be sustained.

The central Kabbalistic text is the Zohar, «The Book of Splendor,» written by Spanish Rabbi Moses de Leon in the late thirteenth century.

In this context these texts are most adequately interpreted, and this central message is utterly appropriate to the norm of the new humanity that we meet in Jesus Christ.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

Thus, for example, schools as communities of study of scripture have always been central to the life of both Judaism and Christianity precisely, because scripture was believed to be a body of «sacred» texts whose study, would lead to truer understanding of God.

In addition to dealing with the biblical text, there may also be a need to show how this one passage is related to the central issues of Scripture.

This approach tends, then, to set up transactional views as «atonement plus,» and to lend weight to their claims to be more biblical and more authentically Christian, since they deny nothing in the other approaches but include positive readings of the central sacrificial texts and images of the tradition.

But incorporating art in the form of illustrations and graphics into curriculum for older students seems to be a relatively new and somewhat controversial concept as evidenced by the Common Core State Standards [Education Week] being adopted in all but three states so far which states «the text should be central, and surrounding materials should be included only when necessary, so as not to distract from the text itself.»

And for non-pregnant women and men alike, may it be viewed as the seminal feminist text that it is, and may the re-empowerment of women with respect to childbirth be seen as central to the work of feminism, and indeed the cause of humanity, in the 21st century.»

A republican tradition without either The Federalist Papers or The Social Contract, texts which are clearly central to the two great republican revolutions of the late eighteenth century in France and North America, would be rather poor though.

Edward Hennessey, Assembly District 3, Suffolk County (Incumbent)-- Hennessey, who was elected to represent his central Suffolk County 3rd District in 2012, was the prime sponsor of a new state law that increases penalties for texting while driving.

Hennessey, who was elected to represent his central Suffolk County 3rd District in 2012, was the prime sponsor of a new state law that increases penalties for texting while driving.

The campaign also amassed a central list of roughly one million cell numbers and used SMS text messages to promote voter turnout as well as to make campaign announcements such as Joe Biden's selection as Vice President.

Narrating his experience Umeh the party's senatorial candidate for Anambra Central senatorial rerun election said: «At about 2 pm on Wednesday, I saw a text message from the Director of DSS in Anambra on my phone saying that he would like to have a chat with me.

The extraordinary khipu texts of the central Andes, including the logosyllabic animal fiber cords, are a proud testament to the intellectual achievements of Native American peoples, and my research team and I are just beginning our efforts to decipher the Collata khipus.

His epochal text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in the history of all science.

On Capitol Hill, a report accompanying the Labor / Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appropriations bill recommends that when a journal accepts a paper generated with NIH support, a copy be sent to PubMed Central, the NIH National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) archive of full - text articles.

What urged the authors of the open letter into action was the slow progress of PubMed Central, a free electronic full - text archive of research articles started by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the NIH in early 2000.

Several other science agencies are planning full - text archives along the lines of PubMed Central.

Since 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has required its grantees to submit their accepted manuscripts to its PubMed Central repository, which posts full - text manuscripts online within 12 months of publication.

The Ioannidis team used automated text mining to search the biomedical databases MEDLINE and PubMed Central for the appearance of p - values in millions of abstracts, and also manually reviewed 1000 abstracts and 100 full papers.

They prefer a full - text government archive like PubMed Central so it is possible to «text mine,» or search across the entire body of papers.

We searched CINAHL (from 1981), Embase (from 1980), Medline (from 1966), Web of Science (from 1966), and CENTRAL (from 1977) to December 2008, using search strategies developed with the support of an information specialist that included exploded MeSH terms and also text words relating to smoking and lung cancer.

Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure is also too long, but it's bigger fault is that it borrows the central premise of Julia Loktev's far superior The Loneliest Planet (2011) and then turns that film's greatest strength — subtext expressed through ambiguous gestures — into pages and pages of festival - friendly, on - the - nose text.

For another, instead of the widely - used standard black Eco-Box, the DVD is housed in a clear keepcase whose interior displays credits text and, underneath the disc, the central image of the disc art.

Written and directed by Jordan Peele — best known as one half of the eponymous duo from Comedy Central's Key & Peele series — Get Out is a movie that transmutes subtext into text.

The central problem of the picture has a lot to do with the idea that Cronenberg has again taken a pre-existing script and reordered it along distinctly Cronenbergian lines — that what must have read initially as a sociological text on another facet of the immigrant experience (much like screenwriter Steve Knight's Dirty Pretty Things) now plays like one of Cronenberg's investigations into the difficulty of parsing concepts like «normal» and «family» in the crushing crucible of bugs pretending to be human among humans.

The open world of Wilamette has plenty of combo weapons to unlock, lots of well - written background texts to read, plenty of people to rescue (but not escort, thankfully) and more, but if players aren't interested in the optional content, they'll find the central experience to be just a few hours long.

«Determine central ideas or themes of a text?»

Ideas of representation and cultural awareness are central to the concept of windows and mirrors, but critical reflection and thoughtful action are central to the idea of literature as a sliding glass door, a concept similar to windows in that both present different experiences, but sliding glass doors also can represent a change in perspective about the possibilities in the real world that a particular text helps the reader to consider.

Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Of course, I want my students to be able to «determine two or more central ideas of a text» (that's a standardOf course, I want my students to be able to «determine two or more central ideas of a text» (that's a standardof a text» (that's a standard).