He argues for the «need to go beyond authorial motivation to theological relation,» i.e., to the Jesus Christ of
sacred history who is our ultimate norm in faith and conduct.
Not exact matches
And in this task we will always be impoverished if we do not honour and respect the insight, wisdom and contribution of those
who, from many traditions and cultures over the centuries of the
history of the Church, have also brought their understanding to this
sacred conversation.
He pointed out the uniqueness of the messianic character of Israel's religion in whose
sacred liturgy and moral teaching humanity is prepared to receive Christ
who is «Lord of
history and the human heart».
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....
Jabotinsky interpreted this to mean, «Do not exaggerate; do not see danger where none exists; do not regard a man
who does his duty as a hero» for
history is long, the Jewish people everlasting, and truth is
sacred, but everything else, trouble and care and pain and death, ein davar.»
From Bethany: As a Christian
who sees the Old and New Testaments as
sacred texts and the
history of my faith, I feel a connection with those of the Jewish faith, as though we are part of the same family.
The
history of the
sacred literature of the Buddhists is really a part of the
history of the
sacred literature of India, for it was all produced either on Indian soil, or by Indians
who carried the new faith to other lands.
Additional comments made by the author himself indicate virtually no knowledge of the structure of medieval European society, or of the relationship between
sacred and secular learning, and include a condemnation which even readers
who are not anxious to return to the Middle Ages may regard as rather extreme: «the suppression of scientific thought by the medieval Church represents one of the blackest periods of human
history».
Nevertheless, Mormons and those
who call themselves Mormon Fundamentalists (or FLDS) believe in the same holy texts and the same
sacred history.
According to oral
history, the rebellion was fuelled by the prophecies of the spiritual medium Kinjiketile,
who galvanised the Maji Maji fighters against the colonial rulers with his belief in a
sacred water, which would make anyone
who consumed it invincible to the German bullets.
This exhibition looks at the extraordinary impact of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Mexican culture,
history and iconography through more than 60 artworks, including objects from the virgin's basilica in Mexico City, as well as a
sacred reliquary that contains a portion of the garment worn by Juan Diego, the indigenous peasant
who first saw the virgin in an apparition.