Sentences with phrase «religious scholars»

The third's chief spokesman even ordered slaves to obey their masters, religious scholars say.

It is a balanced, critical study by one of the great religious scholars of our time.

This, in spite of the fact that religious scholars who've studied all religions for decades disagree on matters of theology.

Hearing religious scholars debate facts that we have no possible way of knowing is comical to me.

Amir Liaquat initially famous as religious scholar then turned into news anchor and the host has now entered the magic world of Pakistani fashion clothing.

The old testament was written by a group of religious scholars at the order of a christian roman emperor who did nt like people have different views of and practices that they all called christianity.

The 25 Fund allows us to bring religious scholars from around the world to join First Things» ongoing scholarly colloquia, as well as to host seminars in major global cities outside of the United States on topics of international importance.

Recent successes include: No god but God (Random House), by religious scholar Reza Aslan; Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book (Putnam), a companion to his Academy Award nominated documentary Super Size Me; Fergus Bordewich's Bound for Canaan (Amistad), the first narrative history of the Underground Railroad; and Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision (Random House), lead fiction title by an editor of the new literary magazine n +1.

This runs counter to the popular conception of Islam as a democracy in which ijma, or the consensus of opinion of the leading religious scholars, is the final authority on all questions.

Jim Wallis, the progressive CEO of Sojourners, and Richard Land, the conservative head of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, are two religious scholars with opposing political views.

Religious scholar Reza Aslan states, «The story of Paul's dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus is a bit of propagandistic legend created by the evangelist Luke; Paul himself never recounts the story of being blinded by the sight of Jesus.»

One of the great tasks facing religious scholars in our time is the re-examination of the jurisprudence of Islam in the light of reason and modern knowledge.

Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself about the author's experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many religious scholars and clergymen are as truly enlightened about life, death and the nature of things as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?

So if it didn't exist during the time of Jesus then evangelicals, or any other religious scholar, doesn't have the right to state their opinion on it?

Here was a modern - day pogrom — not sanctioned by government, but surely abetted by the inadequate response of the police, who in an unfortunate coincidence were under the command of a black mayor and a black commissioner — that left religious scholar Yankel Rosenbaum dead and the air filled with anti-Semitic rhetoric.

Ahmad Khan was also involved in a controversy with the Christian missionaries which led him to write a commentary on the Bible, in which he showed that many Muslim religious scholars, such as Bukhari, did not believe that the words of the Old Testament and the New Testament had suffered from interpolation at the hands of the Jews and the Christians.

It is surely no accident that R. C. Zaehner, one of the most gifted of contemporary Catholic religious scholars, and one who has devoted himself to the study of a non-Christian religious world, should have called in his most recent work for a revolutionary synthesis between a Teilhardian vision and Marxism.

One Pakistani religious scholar complained that this was ruining the lives of thousands of Muslims and leading them to destruction.

Hell even prominent religious scholars will tell you that the bible is in now way a reliable source of history.

But Jewish and Christian religious scholars were too proud to admit that their Prophets would not be the seal of the Prophets so they rewrote the Torah and Bible and conveniently left out everything related to Prophet Muhammad.

Preachers and religious scholars created a black theology and proclaimed God as liberator and Jesus Christ as black.

Him and his group of religious scholars got together and decided what stories and what versions of those stories and how they could change some of them to fit their veiws and voila you get the new testament.

The most agnostic religious scholars would call your comments a gross oversimplification.

This is a theological question, and it all depends on whether they follow the sacred texts themselves or the reinterpretations offered by modern religious scholars.

There's zero archeological evidence and other non-apologist religious scholars are finally admitting it.

Some non-Pentecostal religious scholars, such as Harvey Cox (Fire from Heaven) and Philip Jenkins (The Next Christendom), have succumbed to «Pentecostal chic» — a kind of romantic view of Pentecostalism as a much - needed spiritual movement of the poor and oppressed that fills the Western world's «ecstasy deficit.»

No doubt many nonbelievers will remain unconvinced, but Marsden's response to their doubts might be phrased as a question: What harm can come from giving religious scholars a hearing?

Hard to believe that religious scholars at Boston U are so ignorant of these historical facts and what should be a blatant religious contrast.

The majority claiming Jesus actually existed are religious scholars who have a wee bit of bias.

Praised by New York Times columnist David Brooks for combining «extreme empathy with extreme tough - mindedness,» Erica Brown is a leading religious scholar and counselor.

Actually these passages in Josephus has been determined, by religious scholars, to have been added to Josephus writings at a later date.

from this religious scholar?

Jesus was not big on self - righteous, know it all religious scholars (Scribes)- and this opinion piece is a great example of why that is the case.

One would hope that a «religious scholar» would have come to that realization much earlier in their careers...

By the way, if you want to understand religion, the very last person you should turn to is a religious scholar.

My friend, obviously mishearing, commented about being surprised that religious scholars had anything to say on «profits» in the marketplace.

He awarded lands and stipends to religious scholars, schools, and colleges and was charged with the duty of helping the needy.

The Sufis generally were favored over the ulama because they kept aloof from politics, while the religious scholars sometimes could set limits to the authority of the rulers.

A «religious scholar» at Boston.

You commented, «Jesus and his family had / has... Satan... Many contemporary biblical and religious scholars have relegated these «pretty wingie / ugly / horn - blowing thingies» to the myth pile.

Many contemporary biblical and religious scholars have relegated these «pretty wingie / ugly / horn - blowing thingies» to the myth pile.

Contemporary biblical and religious scholars have relegated these «pretty wingie / ugly / horn - blowing thingies» to the myth pile.

«But to immediately break your fast without being hungry or thirsty is the same as submitting to your cravings and lusts, and not putting God's desire before your own,» the religious scholar argued.

Cultural sensitivity is one thing, but being a religious scholar?