Sentences with phrase «in sacred texts»

Cast out thee who dusth not believe in the sacred texts of global warming climate change and our great lord redeemer the IPCC and Archbishop Al Gore.

As far as anyone knows, out of all the Jesuses back then, only the name of one of the was so holy as to be abbreviated in sacred texts as a nomen sacrum, or sacred name.

In this way, according to the very same manner as their secular contemporaries, the Church Fathers came to apply the term persona to the characters portrayed in the sacred texts of Christianity.

How does / did Rene Girard rule out «mimetic rivalry» as being irrelevant in the sacred texts of other religions?

This nontextual character of Dalit and Adivasi traditions influences the direction of contextual liturgical expressions: instead of reaching back to the pristine and original world of the past (mostly inscribed and frozen in sacred texts), they may be intertwined with an orientation towards the future.

We know that there is also wisdom to be found, much of it similar to Biblical wisdom, in the sacred texts and stories of other faiths and traditions and we are glad to have those, also, to help us discern the direction of our lives and paths.

Hinduism for example has mentioning of evolution in their sacred texts.

Spirituality is supposed to bring us together, but every organized religion on earth that is not openly mocked by the majority of people on earth has women can't do this and women shouldn't do that hardwired into the dogma and spelled out in sacred text.

In his intensely antiprelatical tracts written before 1645, Milton speaks of a world in which the truth embodied in a sacred text is known by one group, the Puritans, and rejected by another, the defenders of episcopal prelacy, who clearly are possessed by a false spirit» if not by the Devil, then at least by their own carnal imaginations.

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.

Not exact matches

A perfect example is in «The Last Jedi» (available on digital release Tuesday, on Blu - ray / DVD March 27) when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) attempts to burn down the giant tree that holds the sacred Jedi texts.

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.

In the same breath, let us also just believe that the religious fanaticism shown by some Muslims is also an act of corruption of their own sacred text.

He loved coming in each week knowing that readings had been assigned, and that he, like millions of others, would be submitting himself to the sacred texts, not subjecting it to his own consumeristic impulse.

Maybe when we give ourselves to ancient words and sacred texts, and embrace routines and traditions, we can remember that we are not here for what we can get out of worship; we are here to give ourselves away in worship.

We also believe, as it is written in our Bible (and yes these are sacred texts as sacred as texts for any other religion so please be respectful) Israel is the chosen people of God.

While holding on to our different beliefs about theology, we can still find common ground in what our sacred texts say about caring for the poor.

This is fascinating — I think a lot of people who are basically atheists «try» religion in this sense — reading sacred texts, reciting prayers, even attending church.

In a major public lecture, Donald Trautman declared that «as a text for public proclamation, in many instances it borders on failure... As it stands, the New Missal is not pastorally sensitive to our people... Our liturgy needs not a «sacred language» but a pastoral language»In a major public lecture, Donald Trautman declared that «as a text for public proclamation, in many instances it borders on failure... As it stands, the New Missal is not pastorally sensitive to our people... Our liturgy needs not a «sacred language» but a pastoral language»in many instances it borders on failure... As it stands, the New Missal is not pastorally sensitive to our people... Our liturgy needs not a «sacred language» but a pastoral language».

For this task, Christians need the help of the original proprietors, and both parties will find that both the distinctiveness and the depth of their respective roots in the shared sacred text are increased rather than diminished by their collaboration.»

My prayer is that all of our daughters (and sons) would also experience these sacred texts in this way.

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.»

In some cases, we refer explicitly to these texts as «sacred» or «immortal.»

How we deal with sacred texts is how we deal with reality in general.

And how we deal with reality in general is how we deal with sacred texts.

Sometimes the words of the sacred text are thought to be the very words of God himself, ipsissima verba, the human element in the situation being merely instrumental.

In our personal devotions also we can be enriched by the sacred texts of the world.

Literalism is the lowest and most narrow hermeneutic for understanding conversation in general and sacred texts in particular.

Paul was writing to Christians whom he had never seen, but expected soon to see, and he sets forth the common faith which he is sure they already hold — «the gospel of God, (See Mark 1:14 — though the text may originally have read, «the gospel of the Kingdom of God,» as in the A. V.) which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the sacred writings,

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

After she views the text of the sacred manuscript, she begins to experience miraculous changes in her own heart.

The conflict comes in for certain sects of religions where the literal interpretation of sacred texts is taught.

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.

There are those who consider themselves Christian, Buddhist, etc in a religious sense who have never read sacred texts associated with their religion.

It doesn't take that much more time to sing all six verses of «For All the Saints» or all four verses of «Crown Him with Many Crowns»; cutting such great texts by two - thirds or one - half inevitably sends the signal that music in the liturgy is filler» and there is no room for filler in the sacred liturgy.

Values must be defended by appealing to other more fundamental values and beliefs that are also yours (perhaps you will refer to the Bible or the Qur «an or some other sacred text) which are not going to be accepted by those who have basic disagreements with your point of view in the first place.

Those of the twice - born castes were to begin early the study of the Vedas, which meant to live in the home of a teacher and serve him while learning the wisdom of the sacred texts.

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.

Reverend Moon on several occasions has called himself the Messiah, and the Moonie sacred text, Divine Principle, declares flatly that the Messiah was born in Korea between the two world wars (Moon was born in 1920).

In celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible, Crossway Publishing commissioned and published The Four Holy Gospels, featuring Makoto's illuminations of the sacred texts.

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.»

The Magi could have known the sacred Jewish texts; this certainly fits in with Herod's behaviour in slaughtering the innocents of Bethlehem.

«Although Hinduism and yoga grew out at the same time of the Indian subcontinent and there are references to yoga in the Upanishads and in the Bhagavad Gita, that doesn't mean that Hinduism has the exclusive hold on yoga,» she said, referring to sacred Hindu texts.

To brother - sister Marie: not to mention earthquakes and tsunamies (sp) in Japan, if you don't want to leave the bible and «sacred» texts to the literalists — or the metaphorists.

I find it bothersome on some level, that what is someone else's sacred text, we bandy about in discussion about what it does, or doesn't reflect about «god».

A famous rabbinic saying implies that every word in Judaism's sacred texts can be understood in 70 correct (but related) ways.

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?

Evolution should enjoy the same status and would if it didn't conflict with the literal words in a text sacred to many.

However, the inquiry that paideia calls for begins with the assumption of the authority of certain texts in regard to both secular and sacred matters.