Sentences with phrase «sacred literature»

But they did have a very extensive sacred literature which was highly influential in the expression of their faith, and to some extent in the determination of that faith.

Within Hindu sacred literature may be found, as in most scripture, almost every type of writing.

In sacred literatures are found history, legislation, poetry, letters, fables, myths, drama, genealogies, prophecy, visions, laments, martial songs, indeed almost the whole gamut of literary variety is to be found.

One of these entered the Iranian plateau, amalgamated with the native populations and eventually gave rise to a new faith, Zoroastrianism, which developed its own sacred literature.

We conclude the discussion of Babylonian sacred literature with only a brief mention of the omen texts, of which a great many have been unearthed.

For there is much religious literature that is not regarded as sacred; and a great deal of the content of so - called sacred literature is not necessarily directly religious at all, though indirectly it is usually in some way linked up with religion.

What constitutes sacred literature?

This differentiates sacred literatures from most other types of literature.

As a natural corollary of this view, sacred literatures stand in a class apart from other literature.

That's probably a good thing, except that we have to marginalize some beautiful sacred literature.

India's sacred literature divides itself logically and to some extent chronologically, into four main groups: (1) Vedic literature, (2) Legal literature, (3) Epic literature and (4) Puranic literature.

What is needed by the ordinary student, it seems to the writer, is a single volume which will provide an adequate, if not an exhaustive, discussion of the great sacred literatures in non-technical language, so that he may better understand and appreciate what the anthologies so generously provide him.

One of the chief drawbacks to reading Buddhist sacred literature that has not been edited for the modern reader, is its repetitiousness which we saw to be a characteristic of Hindu literature also, particularly of the Brahmanas.

Though the doctrine of reincarnation was worked out in much greater detail in subsequent Hindu sacred literature, it is expressed in the Lipanishads in rudimentary form thus:

There is no belief that the books associated with the Sage were in any sense inspired by God, and yet in every other respect they may well be considered alongside the other sacred literatures.

Four of the eleven principal living faiths of the world were born in India: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, and all have extensive sacred literatures.

-- An excellent translation of well selected material illustrating every phase of Babylonian sacred literature.

During the whole of his teaching career in the field there have been available scholarly translations of considerable quantities of sacred literature from the greater religions; for example, the great fifty - volume series, Sacred Books of the East, each volume of which contains a learned discussion of the particular segment of the literature presented.

First, sacred literatures are, as a usual rule, regarded as in some sense the word of God or the gods, revealed to man.

To sum up, sacred literature is distinguished from the non-sacred, not by any criteria of style, literary form, or even content, but by the fact that in some way or other it has come to be thought of as divine in origin, and therefore set apart from other literatures and given an authority for faith and life quite surpassing that accorded to any other writings.

The existence of a sacred canon, then, is peculiar to sacred literature.

The New Testament was not written to create a sacred literature.

Many peoples that have reached this stage have left us no sacred literature because they wrote on easily destructible materials which have not survived the vicissitudes of time.

But even here there existed all the «makings» of sacred literature, and in some cases they had gone far toward collecting these materials and handing them on verbally from generation to generation.

The five books of the law had been accepted as sacred Scripture for four or five centuries, and for two or three centuries the books of the prophets had been recognized as a second body of sacred literature; but the rest of the Old Testament (known to this day simply as Writings or Scriptures) had not yet been «canonized.»

Out of the struggle upward the literature was born and by it India's life has been shaped and controlled to a remarkable degree, for India's sacred literature is no mere museum piece.

If all the books which are comprised within these two classes of sacred literature were to be brought together in a single collection, as has nowhere yet been done, they would fill many thousands of pages.

Any anthology which presents only the high and noble points of a sacred literature really misrepresents that literature, for it is not all by any means of equal beauty or interest or of equal moral or religious insight.

It is not only the sacred literature of the period, it is the only literature that has been preserved, and it was preserved only because it became sacred.

The sacred literature of Buddhism is extensive — thousands of books.

Unlike almost all sacred literature, the Koran was written by one man, Mohammed.

Since for them the Bible is God's own Word, these Christians insist that we develop a special, sacred method for this special, sacred literature.

When we begin to get spiritually curious outside the box of our assigned religion, we begin to survey the at first baffling array of sacred literature that is held in just as high an esteem by their adherents as the Bible is held by Christians.

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.

Gain theoretical perspective of yogic science with extensive study of sacred literature «Patanjali Yoga Sutras» that form the very niche «of yoga and spirituality.

Spanning the ages — from the third to the twentieth centuries — the nine works bring to light classic historic styles, regional variations, and the importance of secular and sacred literature.