Sentences with phrase «interpretation of sacred texts»

Oral performance provided immediate access to the spirit of God; true worship depended on the release of Yahweh's spirit, which was achieved by the oral interpretation of sacred texts.

Consensus of this sort might even evoke a conversation about methods of interpretation of sacred texts.

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

That theirs is * the * way and the * only * way, with an absolutely literal interpretation of their sacred texts, and a conviction that we, therefore, are inferior people on the wrong side of God.

Arius followed the school of Antioch in his scriptural exegesis, which favoured a literal interpretation of the sacred text.

Through some devious narrative calculus, Al - Mansour has placed an innocent young girl at bitter odds with a rigidly defined interpretation of a sacred text.

Not exact matches

Worship becomes an occasion in which «sacred» texts are both revered and scrutinized through the playful processes of oral performance and homiletical interpretation.