Sentences with phrase «sacred texts»

Spiritual Direction may include prayer, study of sacred texts, worship, and meditation.

Cast out thee who dusth not believe in the sacred texts of global warming climate change and our great lord redeemer the IPCC and Archbishop Al Gore.

We all have our sacred texts — not necessarily religious in derivation — texts that offer comfort, that answer an unarticulated need.

Nina Yankowitz's Criss ~ Crossing the Divine is an interactive installation that uses technology to allow people to explore the relative perspectives of sacred texts.

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.

In between, NURTUREart joined with Studio 10 in displaying Meg Hitchcock, who reconstructs sacred texts with a knife, as inner visions that William Blake would have understood.

In the Usana Bali Lontar, one of the sacred texts housed at the temple, there is an ancient legend that describes the formation of Dewi Danu's throne.

In addition to the sacred texts themselves, popular religious texts also include commentaries of sacred texts.

It is thought that those in this bardo are very sensitive to the thoughts of those they knew in life, and consequently chants, prayers, reading sacred texts and other rituals may guide those in this confused state.

«Non-fiction religion - specific books» include sacred texts (including the Bible, the Qur» an, and others), commentary on those sacred texts, and educational or explanatory books about the specific religion.

More than 5,000 entries treat individuals, sacred texts, concepts, schools, deities, and important geographical locations.

These new Religious Studies GCSEs have seen a move away from a thematic approach and towards a greater focus on exploring the beliefs and practices of various religions through their sacred texts.

It's certainly the case with a lot of sacred texts and music.

Izard notes that the learning team «included the Turning the Pages volumes within a set of structured learning tools» to complement a recent exhibition of sacred texts from the library's collection.

«These new resources address the increased focus on sacred texts in the new GCSE syllabus and offer teachers and students an innovative approach to study the Bible with confidence.»

«There is an increasing focus on the good use of sacred texts in GCSE Religious Studies with a higher expectation that students will understand the references they are drawing on when they write in their exams,» he explained.

Greek religion was based on securing or maintaining the favour of the gods through ritual actions and not on sacred texts or beliefs.

How do we extract meaning from sacred texts?

Each movement has its prophets, its sacred texts, its peculiar solutions to knotty problems.

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.

I wonder if native Russians will feel that one of their sacred texts has been transformed into British soap opera.

One by one, the keepers of our era's biggest franchises, the sacred texts to be drawn on and embellished for generations to come, have had the same bright idea: What if, instead of hiring seasoned hacks or promising but untested newcomers, they gave the movies to actual filmmakers?

I don't know if it was the black eyes of the people watching me or the way everything looked dark and overused in that city, but I was ill at ease, as if Yoga's history has many places of obscurity and uncertainty due to its oral transmission of sacred texts and the secretive nature of its teachings.

Yoga's history has many places of obscurity and uncertainty due to its oral transmission of sacred texts and the secretive nature of its teachings.

«Do not let yourself be guided by the authority of the sacred texts, nor by simple logic, nor by appearance or opinion, nor even by the teachings of your master; when you know in yourself that something is bad, then give it up, and accept the good and follow it.»

The 5 niyamas are cleanliness, contentment, spiritual purification, study of sacred texts, and devotion to one's higher power.

Every author from the writers of the ancient sacred texts to James himself has relied on that empowering paradox.

The race is on to bank Earth's riches on the moon, from sacred texts to human and plant genomes, in the hope of rejuvenating Earth after a major cataclysm (see main story).

Names of your own religious family members, inspiring people of your faith and names and words pulled from sacred texts can help.»

Pearls may be the holiest stones we can think of --- the gorgeous orbs are mentioned with reverence inHindu, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sacred texts alike.

When some apply the sacred texts in a literal manner, attacks such as these take place.

The answer is most likely that he cites sacred texts to support his acts, along with revered precedents.

The power to understand Sacred Scripture trulyis bestowed upon the apostles and their successors, and this sure charism to interpret sacred texts authoritatively in Jesus» name remains a mark of the true Church for all time.

The sacred texts that ground preaching come to expression in the culture of a community (whether ancient lsrael or the early church).

In a sort of reverse Orientalism, Traditionalists find that ideal in a decontextualized harmony of the sacred texts of non-Western societies, and particularly in Islam.

Knowledge of the sacred texts, rituals, and customs of non-European religions gradually became accessible to European intellectuals.

This positive rhetoric can emerge in Western societies where Islam is a relatively unknown faith, and where its sacred texts are difficult to access.

This is a theological question, and it all depends on whether they follow the sacred texts themselves or the reinterpretations offered by modern religious scholars.

Other Muslims, especially in the West, disagree, and attempt to provide new interpretations for these classical sacred texts.

But Nicene Christianity has regarded sacred texts less as repositories of information than as living witnesses to the divine truth who is Jesus, the crucified One now risen.

With the rise of militant and extremist groups claiming to follow clear Islamic tenets supported by Muslim sacred texts, there is a need for an alternate depiction of the early years of Islam and its major figures.

It emphasized its heroes, saints, and martyrs, held great rallies that were much like worship services, and absolutized its sacred texts.

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.

As a community of faith gathers to read, hear and study sacred texts, as it sings hymns of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's truth.

no need for churches, no need for supposedly sacred texts.

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.

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.

My guess is he would have regarded it as blasphemous, but then again the term is largely without content in the modern intellectual West, and would be altogether nonsensical for anyone who speculates that «J did not think in terms of sacred texts.»

The Bible differs from other sacred texts such as the Qu» ran and the Hindu Veda in the way its cosmic story becomes the all - too - personal story of us all.

In this way, according to the very same manner as their secular contemporaries, the Church Fathers came to apply the term persona to the characters portrayed in the sacred texts of Christianity.