Sentences with phrase «interpretation of any religious text»

I would say Evans, and many of the commenters, are missing the point that several hundred years of scholarship in the fields of literary and textual criticism enable us to arrive at at - least reasonable interpretations of religious texts driven by context, the literary genre, etc..

But by the interpretation of religious text, It would seem most likley that he would indeed be pro-life.

That's the danger of strict literal interpretation of any religious text for that matter.

The very fact that we have so many sects of Christianity (and just so many religions in general) should bring to light that there is a no real consensus as to a universal interpretation of religious text.

We need to also consider here that interpretations of religious texts that lead to extremist ideas are not all that far fetched.

So, «socialism» is often merely useless, while dogmatic literal interpretation of religious text is a real impediment and thus worse than socialism.

Not exact matches

Consequently, it is possible to have more informed interpretations of texts than others, whether or not you believe some religious text is divinely inspired or not.

It required them to move from literal interpretations of the texts to allegorical interpretations in which the religious insight of the texts was uncovered.

But neither the science texts nor the standards address religious interpretations of nature or of the environmental crisis.

Perhaps most important, while the great Western religions have held that God is revealed in the events and shape of history, none of the texts discuss religious interpretations of history.

To many of the jewish faith, the Christians hijacked part of their religious writings and applied their own interpretations, often own «translations» which in parts are different from older texts (that Christianity did not control).

The insights we seek by means of the text are thus neither general religious or theological truths, nor simply the author's original insights, but the truth of our own personal and social being as it is laid bare by dialectical interpretation of the text.

This means that context — in the broad sense of cultural, religious, social, political and economical circumstances — and text — as Scripture in its process of transmission and interpretation, that is, its Tradition — do mutually interpret each other.

Instead of telling people that their interpretation is wrong, you can remind them that other religious texts have been used in the past to justify atudes and laws that are recognized today as morally wrong and unjust — such as discrimination against women, people of color and religious minorities.

Centrifugal meaning, in contrast, refers to the more numerous connotations and layers of interpretation that «spin off» from a religious text.

Working in photography, video and sculpture, Idris Khan layers appropriated images taken from literature, religious texts, music scores, and other art works to create ghostly visual interpretations of these materials that evoke considerations of time, authorship and image - making.

The approach advocated by the Commission gives full weight, as a matter of interpretation, open in the text, to the word «traditional» in sub-sec 223 (1), and avoids the mockery which would be constituted by mandating failure of a claim if there be any gap revealed in the admissible (eg non-hearsay) evidentiary description of the social and religious conduct of people without writing from pre-1788, continuously, until and during the shock and disruption of non-indigenous settlement.