Sentences with phrase «esteem than the written word»

Personally, I left «my» church when the spoken «prophetic» word was held in higher esteem than the written word.

Not exact matches

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.
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