Sentences with phrase «sacred literature from»

The Song properly belongs in a canon of sacred literature from a people who were able to look at all the gifts of a rich creation with gratitude to the Giver and joy in the gift.

This differentiates sacred literatures from most other types of literature.

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Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

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

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.

Synthesizing sacred geometries with 20th century avant - garde literature, Chimes remained largely isolated from contemporary art circles over the course of his long career in Philadelphia, working with a singular intensity that is perhaps best ascribed to the archetype of the hermetic alchemist.

Language and literature play an increasing role as material for their multifaceted work, from the philosophical underpinnings in Bertolt Brecht's War Primer to the sacred texts of the Holy Bible itself, both books having been refashioned and recreated by the artists in their own ambiguous, combatant image.

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.