Sentences with phrase «sacred texts for»

A mandatory sacred text for any Old Ones devotee.

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Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that «the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers be struck to obsolescence by religious authorities,» so that «no believer can refer to a sacred text to commit a crime.»

There are many, many schools which prohibit any and all music with a religious text from their curricula and prohibit teachers from programming such music for concerts no matter how balanced the program may be (that is, it encompasses secular and sacred, accompanied and unaccompanied, difficult and easy, music in a variety of styles and from a variety of musical eras.

Hinduism for example has mentioning of evolution in their sacred texts.

Maybe when we give ourselves to ancient words and sacred texts, and embrace routines and traditions, we can remember that we are not here for what we can get out of worship; we are here to give ourselves away in worship.

We also believe, as it is written in our Bible (and yes these are sacred texts as sacred as texts for any other religion so please be respectful) Israel is the chosen people of God.

While holding on to our different beliefs about theology, we can still find common ground in what our sacred texts say about caring for the poor.

Don't allow religious philosophy to intrude into biology classrooms and texts, they say, for that is to soil the sacred precincts of science, which must be reserved for hypotheses that can be rigorously tested and confronted with data.

In a major public lecture, Donald Trautman declared that «as a text for public proclamation, in many instances it borders on failure... As it stands, the New Missal is not pastorally sensitive to our people... Our liturgy needs not a «sacred language» but a pastoral language».

For this task, Christians need the help of the original proprietors, and both parties will find that both the distinctiveness and the depth of their respective roots in the shared sacred text are increased rather than diminished by their collaboration.»

This is certainly a problem for those who treat the biblical text as sacred, regard the biblical heroes as models, and suppose that everything said about God is true.

Literalism is the lowest and most narrow hermeneutic for understanding conversation in general and sacred texts in particular.

We experience God and revelation as perennially - unfolding, which means there's always room for new ways of understanding divinity and sacred text, especially when the old ways of understanding them (e.g. antiquated readings of Leviticus 18:22) turn out to be hurtful or to seem misguided.

There is even a hint of idolatry about the cult of admiration for C.S. Lewis that began forming even during his life, with its shrines, sacred texts, keepers of the flame, and theological niceties.

The conflict comes in for certain sects of religions where the literal interpretation of sacred texts is taught.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

For example, the Torah [the first five books of the Bible] assumed that Yahweh, like all the other gods, required ritual blood sacrifice, but eventually the psalmists and prophets take the sacred text beyond this earlier assumption.

For example, the Torah assumed that Yahweh, like all the other gods, required ritual blood sacrifice, but eventually the psalmists and prophets take the sacred text beyond this earlier assumption.

It doesn't take that much more time to sing all six verses of «For All the Saints» or all four verses of «Crown Him with Many Crowns»; cutting such great texts by two - thirds or one - half inevitably sends the signal that music in the liturgy is filler» and there is no room for filler in the sacred liturFor All the Saints» or all four verses of «Crown Him with Many Crowns»; cutting such great texts by two - thirds or one - half inevitably sends the signal that music in the liturgy is filler» and there is no room for filler in the sacred liturfor filler in the sacred liturgy.

However, the inquiry that paideia calls for begins with the assumption of the authority of certain texts in regard to both secular and sacred matters.

Brevard Childs of Yale and, on the Jewish side, Jon Levenson of Harvard have been key figures in the effort to reappropriate the text as sacred text, a text produced and interpreted by and for the believing community.

For the Biblical literalist the text of the Bible is sacred in much the same way.

In a day when jihadist violence is an almost - daily occurrence, apologists for Islam sometimes claim religious equivalence — asserting that the sacred texts of the Judeo - Christian tradition have their own incitements to violence.

Prayer and the reading of sacred texts, for example, are prescribed ways of drawing closer to God.

Many cultures have their own sacred texts, e.g., the Digha Nikaya, Havamal, Gathas, Upanishads, etc. with different prescriptions for conducting one's life, different views of the afterlife, and the gods.

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.»

And there are no proof - texts for these things, which largely come from sacred Tradition or are derivatives from other theological truths (like the communion of saints).

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

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.

Rather, what does it mean for a community to listen to a sacred text?

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

Thus, for example, schools as communities of study of scripture have always been central to the life of both Judaism and Christianity precisely, because scripture was believed to be a body of «sacred» texts whose study, would lead to truer understanding of God.

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.

There is even a reference to it in the [Maya sacred text], the Popul Vuh, where the grandmother grinds chiles and mixes them with broth, and the broth acts as a mirror in which the rat on the rafters is reflected for the hero twins to see.»

2) The Bishop and the Bible For years in my writing career, I have examined such parts of the sacred text as the person of Jesus, the Ten Commandments, the

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?

Polygamy was, in fact, one of the most sacred credos of Joseph's church — a tenet important enough to be canonized for the ages as Section 132 of The Doctrine and Covenants, one of Mormonism's primary scriptural texts.

I began to treat anything related to finance & investing, no matter how mundane, like a sacred text — something to mine for info, and then pore over for any scrap of insight.

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.

Houédard believed in the transformative power of his word - based arrangements to elicit linguistic, visual and spiritual connections, citing previous examples as «texts created for concrete use: amulets talismans grigris mani - walls devil traps kemioth tefillin mezuzahs medals sacred - monograms».

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One word changes everything... For more than twenty centuries, words within a sacred text have mystified, confused, and been misunderstood by almost all who read them.