Sentences with phrase «sacred books with»

Neither the Greeks nor the Romans, the Egyptians nor the Babylonians — all highly literate cultures — had what may be termed sacred books with a definitely limited canon, held to be the exclusive basis of religious faith.

Here we must recall the definition of a sacred book with which we began.

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Many Christians say that some Mormon beliefs, including that Mormon church leaders are prophets and that the Book of Mormon is sacred scripture, are incompatible with Christianity.

I can see tat a lot of people that don't like that I disagree with the article dismissed my earlier opinion as hate, I certainly don't have as much experience in hate as this people that read about it very often in their sacred books.

What we do with this difference in the two creation accounts is, first, acknowledge it, and second, explain that they are both there because each was a part of one of the two or three sacred traditions put together by an editor to make up the book of Genesis.

The second part of the book is theological rather than critical or historical, and it advances the claim that it is precisely the most radical expressions of the profane in the modern consciousness (Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud, Proust, Kafka and Sartre) that can be dialectically identified with the purest expressions of the sacred.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

Then I read some books and talked with some people (like my pastor, Stephen Hammond) and realized that there should be no real division between «sacred» and «secular.»

With the coming of the Gentiles to Utah, the political direction of the state has, of course, passed from the church as church, but even today the economic and social life of the Mormon community is still to an amazing degree determined by the principles taught in their sacred book.

At evening time it is, with equal ceremony, locked away for the night in a specially prepared vault for safekeeping.11 It is not a little strange that a faith which rules out idolatry should have come, in the end, very near, if not quite, to making their sacred book an object of worship.

«Evolution should enjoy the same status and would if it didn't conflict with the literal words in a text sacred to many» = > It does not conflict with the Bible which is one of the reasons it stands out among holy books.

This highly conservative Calvinist argues that because biblical interpretation «deals with a book that is unique in the realm of literature, viz. with the Bible as the inspired Word of God,» we must develop a sacred interpretative science of a «very special character (page 11).

For example, in the fourth book of Father Paul Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent, you will find that in the year 1551 the Papal legates who presided over the Council ordered: «That the Divines ought to confirm their opinions with the holy Scripture, Traditions of the Apostles, sacred and approved Councils, and by the Constitutions and Authorities of the holy Fathers; that they ought to use brevity, and avoid superfluous and unprofitable questions, and perverse contentions....

Their authentic content, fortunately, is to be read in clear Arabic in the Koran itself, so that Islam can dispense with reading the sacred books of former revelations.

In his book, Bush told America what he told Texas with the hymn: he regards public office as God's calling and a sacred trust.

Most of the Founders were Deists, which is to say they thought the universe had a creator, but that he does not concern himself with the daily lives of humans, and does not directly communicate with humans, either by revelation or by sacred books.

The human polytheists, in practice, have a great deal in common with the Abrahamic monotheists of Planet Earth: They're a people of the book, divided between fundamentalists who take the sacred scrolls literally and more latitudinarian believers who don't, and divided, as well, on all the culture - war questions — notably abortion — that divide our own semi-Christian West.

Fedorschak, Karuna PARENTING, A SACRED TASK Hohm Press, 2003 A thoughtful book on the spiritual journey of parenting, Parenting, A Sacred Task, is a meaningful discussion of being attentive to your child's wants and needs and the importance of raising children with flexibility and an open mind.

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A generation of readers and filmgoers has grown up with the bespectacled, wand - waving wizard and saviour of the world from Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, and the appearance of the final film coincides with the birth of a fourth Beckham child, suitably given the middle name «Seven» which could as easily be the number of books in the sacred text as her father's former Man Utd shirt.

Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was an affectionate return and tribute to the early days of Saturday morning matinees and cinema, with comic - book archaeology hero Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) battling the Nazis while searching for the sacred Ark of the Covenant - the first in a very successful trilogy of films.

In soaring language that's accompanied by boisterous art, the book invites readers into a sacred space and reminds them that life is filled with beauty as well as questions — about faith, family, and culture.

The idea that books can be beneficial dates back to ancient Greece, where libraries were considered sacred structures with curative powers.

The thing that I like most about the book is O'Shaughnessy use of data to slaughter several sacred value investing cows, one of which I mentioned yesterday (see The Small Cap Paradox: A problem with LSV's Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk in prac...).

In this book many sacred investment cows are slaughtered, Covel goes so far as to say that buy and hold investing is a winning strategy for mutual fund managers through fees, but not for investors, with the 2000 and 2008 bear markets wiping out gains that could have been locked in with trend trading strategies.

The thing that I like most about the book is O'Shaughnessy use of data to slaughter several sacred value investing cows, one of which I mentioned yesterday (see The Small Cap Paradox: A problem with LSV's Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk in practice).

HE IS A NOWHERE MAN, BOUGHT AND PAID FOR TO SIT IN AN OFFICE OF EMPTINESS AND GO ALONG WITH SELLING OUT THE VENICE BOARDWALKS, ARTIST, MEDICINE MEN, BEAUTY AND CREATIVITY THAT VENICE WAS BUILT UPON, THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, WE ARE ALL IN THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST TODAY, BEFORE THE EUROS CAME, IT WAS JUST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BEING MASSACRED, NOW IT IS YOU, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND CHILDREN OF YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS SLAUGHTERED THE NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLES TO STEAL THERE LANDS, NOW IT IS HAPPENING TO YOU, KARMIC JUSTICE THE NATIVE CHOCTAWS PULLED TOGETHER EVERY THING THEY HAD TO SAVE THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE, TO SAVE THE IRISH PEOPLES, AND THEN THE IRISHMAN KILLED THE NATIVE S FOR THE SACRED GROUNDS, KARMA AND JUSTICE IS NOT A PRETTY PHOTOGRAPH OF WHAT YOUR ANCESTROS DID TO MY ANCESTROS ALL SACREDNESS NOW IS GONE THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST CONTINUES, GREAT BOOK, BY DAVID STANNARD

If so you must book a tour of Mossman Gorge with the Ngadiku Dreamtime Walks and you will experience a traditional smoking ceremony, visit sacred ceremony sites, see an indigenous cultural performance and more.

John Amodeo's brilliantly written, incisive, and heart - centered book provides a multi-layered in - depth journey demonstrating why we need both the spiritual teachings on mindfulness along with Western approaches, like Focusing and Emotionally Focused Therapy, to truly live an awakened, embodied life of sacred intimacy within oneself, relationships, and life itself!