Sentences with phrase «sacred a text so»

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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.»

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.

Scripture is already a theological reality identifiable with Christ, and so the «material text should not be called Holy Scripture strictly speaking, since these manuscripts are only sacred to the extent that the sacred meaning accompanies them.»

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.

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.

They confronted their own lives with their sacred texts and invoked God's grace so that their lives might accord more fully with the noble examples they considered.

They study their sacred texts, memorize them and talk about them so much that adherents share a deep, rich common language.

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.

So sacred was it held to be at the time of the making of the Code of Manu, greatest of the law books, that it was therein decreed that a lowly Sudra, i.e., low caste man, who so much as listened to the sacred text would have molten metal poured into his ears, and his tongue cut out if he pronounced the sacred words of the holy Vedas.1 «Whether such laws were ever actually enforced may be doubteSo sacred was it held to be at the time of the making of the Code of Manu, greatest of the law books, that it was therein decreed that a lowly Sudra, i.e., low caste man, who so much as listened to the sacred text would have molten metal poured into his ears, and his tongue cut out if he pronounced the sacred words of the holy Vedas.1 «Whether such laws were ever actually enforced may be doubteso much as listened to the sacred text would have molten metal poured into his ears, and his tongue cut out if he pronounced the sacred words of the holy Vedas.1 «Whether such laws were ever actually enforced may be doubted.

As with sacred Scripture, so with the exercise of the Petrine ministry: the truth or otherwise of a teaching is based on the authority invested in it — in both cases, by God himself, guaranteed by his Holy Spirit — rather than on the identity, oftentimes unknown, of this or that composer (or composers) of a particular text.

As far as anyone knows, out of all the Jesuses back then, only the name of one of the was so holy as to be abbreviated in sacred texts as a nomen sacrum, or sacred name.

On the one hand, reliable understanding of sacred texts requires some sense of the context in which their statements were originally uttered: «Because of their ignorance about hyssop many people, unaware of its power to cleanse the lungs or even (so it is said) to split rocks with its roots, in spite of its low and humble habit, are quite unable to discover why it is said, «You will purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean» (Ps.

In so being, we also maintain the sacred text wherein lie the simple truths of cycling etiquette known as The Rules.

It can be said that Bruce Beresford, returning to the examination of the fallout on the fringe of war that he detailed so effectively in 1980's Breaker Morant, has taken varied texts, sacred and found, and composed a film in Paradise Road that is meant to be both an evocation and a tribute to a lesser - known story from WWII.

With the cast led by the British trio of Cumberbatch, Ejiofor and Swinton — not forgetting Benedict Wong, who plays The Ancient One's guardian of the sacred texts — it's pleasing to see a Marvel movie that feels so homegrown.

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The complaints registered here really aren't so different from any other instance of Hollywood taking a sacred cultural text and supremely neutering its content.