Sentences with phrase «sacred writings»

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This purpose is reinforced by reviewing the themes covered by the volumes, including: English poetry, sacred writings, Elizabethan drama, voyages and travels, chronicle and romance, literary and philosophical essays, continental drama, folklore and fable, and many more.

One of the earliest known uses of «blandish» can be found in the sacred writings of Richard Rolle de Hampole, an English hermit and mystic, who cautioned against «the dragon... that blandishes with the head and smites with the tail.»

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Her findings support a story told by Collata villagers that the khipus are sacred writings of two local chiefs concerning a late 18th century rebellion against Spanish authorities.

The price of the above mentioned set of Buddhist sacred writings, in terms of pre-inflation money, was two hundred and fifty dollars.

To be sure, in his major epistles he did not speak of «the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus» (II Tim.

Whenever we attempt to gather our foundational sacred writings, we find that there is no unanimity in what writings are to be included.

At the same time, it is to be borne in mind that «[since] everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation» (DV, 11).

But after 1645 what was long so clear and available to him in the sacred writings now causes difficulties.

Just choosing the literal text is a process fraught with the full range of human behavior at its worst: sharp personal disagreement, vindictive attacks, ecclesiastical schism, and war — all this, before any attempt to translate the sacred writings into a contemporary language.

So they naturally accord great importance to the particular sacred writings, or scriptures, in which they believe God's self - revelation is authentically recorded.

As expounded in the «sacred writings» of Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin, the dogma holds that the physical world of things which can be seen, felt, weighed, and measured is the only reality that exists.

Perhaps it's because the post-modern world tries to apply the scientific method to determine the validity of sacred writings, and that debates about religion invariably propose the false dichotomy of faith vs. science.

In telling us that the Bible (and «other sacred writings») is «just a book» to spread «the faith,» Martel reveals his fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between God and religious practices.

He encourages Timothy to «continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings.»

The similarities with pre-Islamic sacred writings are evident.

He praises the Gideons, then advises: «They should leave not only Bibles, but other sacred writings as well.

Those religions that have sacred writings do not all make direct claim to divine revelation and authority, and many hold mutually exclusive doctrinal and moral teachings.

The cosmology of Hinduism suggested the religion of the sacred writings of Hinduism.

My rather uneducated stab at a paraphrase would include the preceding verse to make more sense of it in context as follows (borrowing partly from the ESV here): ``... and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Somewhat earlier Conze published Buddhist Texts Through the Ages covering sacred writings from Theravada, Mahayana, and Tantric sources, arranged according to schools.

It brings together in one volume the passages of the Hindu sacred writings which are treasured by an intelligent, devout Hindu.

As for the sacred writings of Hinduism, here is my favorite passage from the Bhagavad Gita as translated by Sir Edwin Arnold:

14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

It is expected that the advent of sacred writings will continue in the future.

There remain two modern American sacred books to be considered at somewhat greater length, viz., Science and Health Key to the Scriptures, and the peculiar sacred writings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

It has also become the most widely diffused of the Indian sacred writings in the western world.

Genuine revelation was pushed into the past: it was recorded in the sacred writings; the contemporary religious leader and thinker could be no more than a commentator.

Although the notion of revelation does not appear formally within the Bible (and in fact does not become a central theme of theology until after the Enlightenment), the sacred writings and traditions all invite us to listen closely, and they promise that we shall hear a word bearing good news.

References have been made to specific books on the several dlvisions or books of Hindu sacred writings.

Here the thriving community of Judaism was sufficiently vigorous to attract proselytes; and in this century the Greek - speaking community of Judaism began the translation of its sacred writings from Hebrew (by some forgotten and by others never known).28 The details are obscure, but the central fact is not in question.

Most basic of all Hindu sacred writings are the Samhitas, generally called the Vedas themselves, of which there are four, and most basic of the four is the Rig - Veda.

[4] The sacred writings of other spiritual traditions are referenced in varying degrees by the different authors and denominations.

Lucian also reported that the Christians had «sacred writings» which were frequently read.

A body of sacred writings gains authority through its demonstrated power of bringing to expression the dominant and enduring attitudes characteristic of the religious group.

In the previous 2 verses, Paul encouraged Timothy to continue in the things he had learnt and referred to the sacred writings, («heiros grammata») that Timothy had learnt and was skilled (oida) in since a child.

The revelatory character of sacred writings results essentially from their powerful exemplification of the first two fundamentals of religious experience: In the first place, there is the marked element of surprise, of wonder and amazement at the new and wholly unexpected things that have come to pass (e.g., deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt or from Babylon, the sense of a living presence among the disciples who had witnessed Jesus» crucifixion).

The sacred writings of all the great religions have the power, in unusual degree, of stimulating the kinds of universal experiences which we described in Part Two.

Among the important components of the sacred writings are the oracles of the prophets.

An examination of other sacred writings would show their peculiar fitness for expressing and inspiring the fundamental experiences by which we defined universal religion.

This is not to deny that the sacred writings contain insights of permanent significance.

Alfred Edersheim, one of the foremost scholars on ancient Jewish culture and sacred writings, argues that «there is no adequate reason for questioning the historical accuracy of this date.»

And this revelation is only considering how God has revealed Himself within Christianity and its sacred writings and orthodoxy.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

Ceremonials, temples, sacred writings testify to the significance, to us and to our ancestors, of things that mattered more than food and shelter.

Paul was writing to Christians whom he had never seen, but expected soon to see, and he sets forth the common faith which he is sure they already hold — «the gospel of God, (See Mark 1:14 — though the text may originally have read, «the gospel of the Kingdom of God,» as in the A. V.) which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the sacred writings,

This is why they «searched the Scriptures» — the Jewish sacred writings — to find the material which they could use as testifying and witnessing to their Lord and Master.