Sentences with phrase «of the sacred texts of»

I have also read as many of the sacred texts of other religions as I can find, something a True Believer would not, as a rule, do, since they have found the One True Religion, just as the followers of all other religions have.

In a sort of reverse Orientalism, Traditionalists find that ideal in a decontextualized harmony of the sacred texts of non-Western societies, and particularly in Islam.

Not exact matches

Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that «the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers be struck to obsolescence by religious authorities,» so that «no believer can refer to a sacred text to commit a crime.»

The Hindus had a rich heritage of the 4 Vedas — the oldest of the sacred 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.

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

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.

At a revival / carnival he publicly attacks a sacred text of another religion to taunt and provoke them and become a reality TV star.

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.

Every literary text is essentially borne of The Bible or another, similarly sacred book.

The Bible was written as sacred text, entire groups of people dedicated their lives to faithfully reproducing it over thousands of years.

The sacred text of Islam, considered by Muslims to contain the revelations of God to Muhammad.

Each of these religions has different sets of sacred texts, even if there's some overlapping.

Don't allow religious philosophy to intrude into biology classrooms and texts, they say, for that is to soil the sacred precincts of science, which must be reserved for hypotheses that can be rigorously tested and confronted with data.

Now, apparently CNN has decided to reverse that decision and doesn't care about defiling sacred texts and offending people of faith.

One side tenderly enraptured by the notion of a few, great sacred texts to be preserved against the ravage of time as a precious resource without which we shall surely perish as a people.

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.

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.»

What was new to me — listening with the ear of the heart (as St. Benedict puts it) to sacred texts until they lead the listener to prayer — was actually very old.

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.»

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.

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,

valerie0423 Have you ever taken the time to read any of the mythologies or other sacred texts of rival religions to prove them false?

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.

If we aren't willing to learn about the contexts and histories of the texts we hold so sacred, then it's difficult to prove we are serious about following them.

It provides an elevated tone of voice that takes the texts out of the everyday and confirms them as sacred.

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.

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.

The sacred text was read with the Fathers of the Church, accompanied by commentaries and catenae, with frequent glosses explaining the meaning of difficult....

That subject matter, whether sacred texts only or inclusive of other «extra-Christian» or «secular» texts, is understood to be publicly available and publicly explicable.

Gregorian chant gives an elevated tone of voice to the texts of our sacred praises, conveying the special character of the words and the holy nature of what is being enacted and undertaken.

It is through an acceptance of the humanness of our sacred text, rather than a denial of it, that we discover God's inspiration.

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.

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.

We experience God and revelation as perennially - unfolding, which means there's always room for new ways of understanding divinity and sacred text, especially when the old ways of understanding them (e.g. antiquated readings of Leviticus 18:22) turn out to be hurtful or to seem misguided.

There's a kind of sharing and intellectual / spiritual intimacy which is only possible after a few days of dining together, learning together, studying our sacred texts together.

So, although we refer to the Bible as our sacred text, it is more accurately a collection of texts which have become sacred to the Church.

Meditation entailed a memorization of notable content so that the monk could ruminate over the sacred text throughout the day and slowly absorb its nutrients, like a cow chewing its cud.

There is even a hint of idolatry about the cult of admiration for C.S. Lewis that began forming even during his life, with its shrines, sacred texts, keepers of the flame, and theological niceties.

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.

However, even this has undergone change, because to the original Avestan text has been added a commentary, or paraphrase, to some of the material, and this material has also come to be regarded as sacred.

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.

It is relevant to note here that sacred texts of the Hindu religion such as Vedas and Mantras were not accessible to Dalits as a rule.

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.

It is this misunderstand and lack of knowledge that leads people to contemplate and assert the existence of god with no real proof or evidence other than a sacred collection of texts written over the last few thousand years.