Sentences with phrase «idea of sacred texts»

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Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

But the idea behind a sacred text is that in your interaction with it, you would be moved and the Spirit would speak on something to you, and you wouldn't need to be convinced of its divine nature or origins.

The idea of revelation is then confused with the idea of a double author of sacred texts, and any access to a less subjective manner of understanding revelation is prematurely cut off.

One by one, the keepers of our era's biggest franchises, the sacred texts to be drawn on and embellished for generations to come, have had the same bright idea: What if, instead of hiring seasoned hacks or promising but untested newcomers, they gave the movies to actual filmmakers?