Sentences with phrase «such religious texts»

Grasping the literary dimensions of these writings enables students to see what kinds of questions readers can expect such religious texts to answer, and which they can not answer.

Not exact matches

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.

If there is such a passage in any of the religious texts, please enlighten me.

These texts also cover the origin of law, whether religious laws governing prayer, religious tax, and fasting, or prohibitions against such acts as manslaughter or attacks on the chastity of a woman, and laws governing the use of property.

The Bible can't be used to verify claims any more than the Quran or the Book of Mormon, as all religious texts first require a basic belief on the part of the reader that they (the texts) are right in order to be viewed as such.

It is only by changing religious and secular text which informs such notions for new citizens will this change and finally women will own God on equal terms.

Even less helpful are academic ploys such as the one that all religious texts simply legitimate certain prior social or political commitments and there is no God in the loop at all.

All religious texts have such incidents described or alluded to — take them all strictly in a literal sense and you end up being a fanatic and likely manipulated rather than being a truly spiritual being who imbibes the best that the religion is trying to teach.

Finally, in reading such texts one must keep in mind the end to which they were written, namely, religious edification.

But the process of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue that Pope Benedict XVI has repeatedly endorsed may cause participants to question whether any canonical story of violence — such as the conquest narratives in Joshua and Judges, or functionally equivalent texts in the history of Islam — may legitimately be claimed to offer a religious warrant for continued violence in today's world.

Religious texts are typically written in such a way making it impossible to prove or disprove their deities» existence.

This is such a truism that one is almost ashamed to pen the words, and yet it remains a fact that, in a great deal of the more conservative biblical scholarship, it does seem to be assumed that the appeal to factual accuracy would he as valid and important a factor in the case of ancient Near Eastern religious texts as it would be in a modern western court of law or in a somewhat literally - minded western congregation.

Such a charge is not unfounded, for when the actual calls for violence and bloodshed are tallied, the Bible has more bloody texts than the Muslim Qur» an or any other religious holy book.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

Everyone has the right to believe whatever they want, but they should not force those beliefs on others and indeed, should examine such beliefs in light of empirical evidence, of which there is zilch for the Bible and other religious texts.

Instead of telling people that their interpretation is wrong, you can remind them that other religious texts have been used in the past to justify atudes and laws that are recognized today as morally wrong and unjust — such as discrimination against women, people of color and religious minorities.

Also useful are faculty seminars that encourage small groups to study a text from another religious tradition, or a current social issue, or a current American religious practice in such a way that transcends specialized fields.

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Books at this level are often intended for specialized purposes, such as religious texts, poetry collections, technical manuals, scholarly works and general non-fictions.

There are no religious texts that mention such offerings,» a scholar I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana argued.

I also appreciate the bonus material presented at the end of each issue, such as a Royal Fleet report, a news paper clipping and even some religious text.