Sentences with phrase «source of religious texts»

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I just don't like it when people cherry pick their religious sources or, in the case of this article, outright go against what their religious texts teach to try and appear more politically correct.

Raimundo Panikkar in his great collection of Vedic texts for modern man or woman called The Vedic Experience, whilst recognising that the Vedas are «linked for ever to the particular religious sources from which they historically sprang», also says that the Vedas are a monument of universal religion and therefore of deep significance for all people.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

It will examine the relationship between religion and politics in the period of the American Revolution, founding, and early republic by exploring primary sources including charters, constitutions, and legal texts, sermons, pamphlets, essays, speeches, debates, and religious texts.

But just acknowledge that you can do the same with other religious texts as well and if you REALLY want to get to the meat of modern scientific understanding, go straight to the scientific sources.

Testing Turner's ideas against the religious texts that are the major source for historians of the Middle Ages, Carolyn Bynum finds that his formulation of liminality is applicable only to men, not to women, and useful for understanding only some male stories, namely, those of elites.