Sentences with phrase «from sacred texts»

How do we extract meaning from sacred texts?

The race is on to bank Earth's riches on the moon, from sacred texts to human and plant genomes, in the hope of rejuvenating Earth after a major cataclysm (see main story).

Names of your own religious family members, inspiring people of your faith and names and words pulled from sacred texts can help.»

Personally, I've spent more than 50 years reading, studying, memorizing, preaching, and teaching from the sacred texts.

I understood my relationship with nature as a kind of religion and I wanted to see what wisdom I could find from sacred texts.

Not exact matches

There are many, many schools which prohibit any and all music with a religious text from their curricula and prohibit teachers from programming such music for concerts no matter how balanced the program may be (that is, it encompasses secular and sacred, accompanied and unaccompanied, difficult and easy, music in a variety of styles and from a variety of musical eras.

So, while it may be problematic to make too much of the distinction between Scripture and Christ, I think that evangelicalism will benefit from a reminder that our faith centers around the living person of Jesus Christ — the World Made Flesh — not on the sacred texts that point to him.

During World War II, according to Dr. Holtom, Shinto nationalists hecjuently declared that the most sacred of all theft texts was the «divine» edict pronounced by Arnaterasu - Omi - Karni when she sent her grandson down from Talamaga - Hara to establish the state.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

In recent decades, this pneumatological and ecclesial way of reading the Scriptures is being widely recovered, thus protecting the sacred text from individualistic exegesis and those critical methodologies that are indifferent, or even hostile, to God's saving and sanctifying truth.

The myth of MUSLIMS KILLING only in «self - defense» is easily disproved from the accounts of their self proclaimed terrorist mohammad's own life as recorded in Islam's «sacred» (cough cough) texts with which today's MUSLIM terrorists are only too familiar.

In the dioceses of England Wales the Entrance Chant may be chosen from among the following: the antiphon with its Psalm from the Graduale Romanum or the Graduale Simplex, or another chant that is suited to the sacred action, the day, or the time of year, and whose text has been approved by the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales.»

Who could have imagined that Dr. Billy Graham would be willing to participate and preach in a service at the National Cathedral alongside a Jewish Rabbi and Muslim Mullah, sharing the same chancel area as worship leaders, and reading and praying from their own sacred texts and traditions?

Somewhat earlier Conze published Buddhist Texts Through the Ages covering sacred writings from Theravada, Mahayana, and Tantric sources, arranged according to schools.

The notion that Israel experiences a special love from God, vouchsafed by sacred texts more valid than any others, may be true from Jews» perspective but false from another.

The Bible differs from other sacred texts such as the Qu» ran and the Hindu Veda in the way its cosmic story becomes the all - too - personal story of us all.

And there are no proof - texts for these things, which largely come from sacred Tradition or are derivatives from other theological truths (like the communion of saints).

From Bethany: As a Christian who sees the Old and New Testaments as sacred texts and the history of my faith, I feel a connection with those of the Jewish faith, as though we are part of the same family.

Every author from the writers of the ancient sacred texts to James himself has relied on that empowering paradox.

Born in the rich and vibrant land of Rajasthan where life of every individual is devoted to God following the rich traditions, culture, customs as a legacy, Sangita Sikhwal studied and understood the sacred traditional texts from her grand mother.

A generation of readers and filmgoers has grown up with the bespectacled, wand - waving wizard and saviour of the world from Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, and the appearance of the final film coincides with the birth of a fourth Beckham child, suitably given the middle name «Seven» which could as easily be the number of books in the sacred text as her father's former Man Utd shirt.

A translation should always take its «original» as a point of departure from which to build a whole different work of art, not as a sacred text to be faithfully respected and imitated.

It can be said that Bruce Beresford, returning to the examination of the fallout on the fringe of war that he detailed so effectively in 1980's Breaker Morant, has taken varied texts, sacred and found, and composed a film in Paradise Road that is meant to be both an evocation and a tribute to a lesser - known story from WWII.

Izard notes that the learning team «included the Turning the Pages volumes within a set of structured learning tools» to complement a recent exhibition of sacred texts from the library's collection.

These new Religious Studies GCSEs have seen a move away from a thematic approach and towards a greater focus on exploring the beliefs and practices of various religions through their sacred texts.

His work reflects a diverse range of interests, from portraiture to architecture, from photography to sacred and literary texts.

Language and literature play an increasing role as material for their multifaceted work, from the philosophical underpinnings in Bertolt Brecht's War Primer to the sacred texts of the Holy Bible itself, both books having been refashioned and recreated by the artists in their own ambiguous, combatant image.

The complaints registered here really aren't so different from any other instance of Hollywood taking a sacred cultural text and supremely neutering its content.