Sentences with phrase «old religious texts»

You can't fail to be impressed by a game that not only has a distinctive visual style, but one that also finds its inspiration in old religious texts to boot.

Not exact matches

Most religious laws are based off of laws that are much older than the religious texts they appear in.

The 31 - year - old Democrat said she will take her oath of office on the Hindu religious text Bhagavad Gita in January.

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.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

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).

As Luhmann notes, the New Testament canon itself seems to reflect a pattern of faith that is more closely circumscribed by religious texts than is the Old Testament.

It is true that the religious leaders were impressed by how much He knew as a 12 year old, but there is nothing in the text to indicate that He is behaving like a know - it - all smarty pants, showing off His knowledge to the teachers.

This isn't the Old Testament prehistory we've seen before — Aronofsky draws from both Christian and Jewish religious texts to fill out the story (which is actually quite short in the Bible) and offers bleak, poisoned world before the flood quite different from the Mediterranean deserts and forests of previous films — and it accomplishes something quite powerful, vivid and unexpected as a result.

Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.

He delves deep into old Christian, Kabbalistic, and Far Eastern traditions, explores the world's great mythical, religious, and poetic texts, and forges links between them and the world as it is experienced today.