Sentences with phrase «text books which»

You keep going to high priced technical or text books which are the exception and not the rule for ebooks.

I have not purchased an reader in part because of the small screen size, and because many of the books I would like to read digitally are professional / text books which are usually larger format and not as routinely created in a digital format.

Nevertheless we continued using — sporadically — maths text books which are used in some UK schools, and a selection of other text - books.

The homework sheets refer frequently to a text book which is no longer available.

Not exact matches

In 2003, I edited the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's classic text, The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffett has called «by far the best book about investing ever written.»

It was with these subjects in mind that he cleverly and deliberately had the book formatted to be the same size and shape of an iPad Air, which changed how he wrote and presented the text and page layout.

I also endorse the most immediately doable reform effort of all, which is for adults to themselves form and promote book - groups dedicated to the study of such texts.

Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,» making laws that prohibit stem - cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...

I can't wait to see the new text books that children ages 5 an up must now read which glorify the achievements of gay.

Several of Wesley's key texts were taken from the book of James which Luther so devalued.

He corrects an error which he says «can be found in every text book of physics» (He is writing in 1958: I wonder if it still appears.)

Fearful of having their books omitted from lists of «acceptable» texts, a number of publishers have acquiesced to creationist demands in various ways: by considerably reducing the space given to discussion of evolution, by referring to evolution as «only a theory,» by including creationist materials, or by placing references to evolution in a final chapter which the teacher could conveniently Omit.

He arranged for the Gospels and some other books of the Bible to be translated in common speech; also some texts of Saints Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, and Gregory, arranged under titles which he called «sentences,» and which he read very often, though without understanding their import.

He not only provides detailed explanations of the text all the way through (which providing lots of footnotes for those who want to research in more depth), but he also provides theological asides that help the student of Scripture see how the book influences our life and thinking today.

They could point to differences in terminology and word usage, «errors» of the text which «pre date» or «post date» the author, and why certain elements of his book show clear evidence of redaction and editing.

The Yashts and minor texts combined, as they often are, form a kind of abridged Avesta or smaller Avesta, called the Khordah Avesta which serves as a book of prayers for laymen.

If there is continuity between the conceptions of the two books, it should be in terms of the original text, before Whitehead introduced those ideas which revolutionized his philosophy to create process theism.

I had reduced the texts I encountered — books, poetry, films — to great mountains of useless shale, through which ran a few veins of useful ore, raw materials for my current project.

And don't forget his Book of Abraham, which he translated from an Egyptian papyrus, later discovered to have been an ordinary Egyptian funerary text.

Scholars were not satisfied only with producing the most accurate text of the Bible; they also wanted to know how the Bible came into being, when its various parts were written, the total surroundings in which the various books were written, and the consequence of all this for an understanding of the Christian faith.

In order to control people these two little books were possibly fabricated from Indian text «bhagwadgita» which existed thousand of years prior to these two man made religions.

Alcoholics Anonymous, being «spiritual, not religious,» doesn't use the Bible at all; rather it uses another sacred text, the inspired Word of God as expressed through Bill Wilson, the Big Book... Unlike the Oxford Group, which claimed salvation and redemption by Jesus through the Oxford Group, AA proclaims «recovery» by one s «Higher Power» through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (Ken Ragge, The Real AA: Behind the Myth of 12 - Step Recovery [AZ: Sharp Press, 1998], pp. 82 - 83).

To this, quoting Vatican I and the books of Wisdom and Hebrews, the same text adds, «For all things are open and laid bare to his eyes, even those which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.»

Endō's deep ambivalence about Christianity pervades his text, which means that there is also evidence in the book and film to support the interpretation favored by Fr.

The whole book, which keeps unusually close to concrete facts, is little more than an amplification of this text.)

Defending Balthasar against Scanlon, he cited the passages from the Pope's Crossing the Threshold of Hope mentioned above and referred also to his own book, Death on a Friday Afternoon, in which he had argued from several New Testament texts that although we can not be certain, we may indeed hope and pray for the salvation of all.

A refusal to make use of these tools to ascertain the proper text reading, its relation to other literature, and the cultural - historical milieu out of which it arose, is a move toward dishonesty prompted either by a fear of what might be discovered or by an impatience to get a sermon that can not tarry at books that are not heavy with homiletical fruit.

«Evolution should enjoy the same status and would if it didn't conflict with the literal words in a text sacred to many» = > It does not conflict with the Bible which is one of the reasons it stands out among holy books.

The purpose of these discussions and commentaries — which continue to this day — is to try to examine and explain what the text actually is saying, especially since the same topics are treated differently in different books of the Hebrew Bible.

I recall the reaction of a priest friend to a text setting out the conservative version of Anglicanism, one which espouses fidelity to the monarchy, to the liturgical tradition of the Book of Common Prayer, and to the rural pastoral tradition, of such great comfort to the people.

The workshop employs a dynamic presentation of the texts of the ritual books themselves as the basis for a rich theological understanding of the way in which the Word becomes flesh in and through thecelebration of the Sacred Liturgy.

See R.H. Charles: Eschatology; Hebrew, Jewish and Christian, p. 261) Thus from clever juggling with figures and texts came the literal significance of the famous Jewish - Christian millennium, which the Book of Revelation includes in its drama of the future.

Victoria, my book looks at the biblical texts which allegedly teach what you are saying they teach (that Christmas trees are idols, etc) and shows how that understanding is a terrible misunderstanding of those texts.

The book is complex, for it is nearly three books in one: (a) a study of the three successive concepts of God Whitehead espoused in Process and Reality, vet even the last is ultimately incomplete, prompting the possibility of further developments beyond the text; (b) a survey of previous attempts to show that in one way or another that it is possible to prehend the divine life; (c) my own approach, which recognizes that God as consequent is imprehensible.

Another text, the book Bahir, describes ten emanations or sefirot of the divine or upper world, which separate into nine masculine and one feminine power.

The original German version of these essays, which are the texts of various lectures given by the author (see note at the end of the book), has appeared in the sixth volume of Schriften zur Theologie (1965).

I now turn to a fairly straightforward and, I hope, accurate sketch of what the tradition in Christian theology, found in those text - books to which I have referred, does in fact have to say on these matters.

When the Sky Clad folk returned they refused to accept the canon as formulated at Pataliputra, and have their own which while agreeing substantially in content, at least as to the names of the books included, nevertheless omits some, includes others, and within the texts bearing the same name differs at significant points.

If God had really wanted us to have an authoritative text by which we could defend our beliefs from all those who hold contrary beliefs, it seems He would have written a different sort of book, and would have included more frequent and more clearly stated references to the nature of this book.

Markos, all you are doing is taking these verses out of context.the four verses that you mention are constantly used by people who hate islam to distort the true meaning.First of all, you need to post the entire chapter and it's interpretation to put it into context.You can't just take one verse out of a chapter with a couple of hundred verses and use it as proof that islam is a violent religion.The quran was revealed in small segments during the life of prophet muhammad and wasn; t revealed all at once.There is a long story to these verses which could require an entire page to tell.look it up.EVERY RELIGIOUS BOOK HAS TEXTS THAT CAN BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT.I am sure that if I look in the jewish torah, talmud or even the bible especially the old testament, i'll find many texts that I can take out of conTEXTS THAT CAN BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT.I am sure that if I look in the jewish torah, talmud or even the bible especially the old testament, i'll find many texts that I can take out of contexts that I can take out of context.

The errors of Valentinus and Marcion are thus exposed before Hurtado analyzes other influential texts, both biblical and extrabiblical, which express Christ's godliness: The Book of Revelation, The Ascension of Isaiah, and The Shepherd of Hermas.

It was a pioneering feat of simply outstanding quality, testimony for which is seen in the fact that it served as the basic text - book of early human history for more than two and a half thousand years.

Author of more than 37 text books on atheistic philosophy, of which his most popular have been studied for decades in colleges all over the world:

On the other hand, he appreciates the insights into the thematic considerations, the forms, and the vocabulary of the so - called wisdom texts in the books outside the wisdom corpus, which is very remarkablexxiii.

Matthew borrowed from Mark, but Matthew and Luke also borrowed from a previous, unknown book which scholars call the «Q Text».

God is wholly a friend of order, and to that end He is Himself present at every point, in every instant, He is omnipresent — which is specified in the text - books as one of the titles by which God is called, which men once in a while think about a little but surely never try to think every instant.

These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»

You never really know which books you need until you find the solution to your question in one of the books you rarely consult, but finally picked up in a last - ditch effort for help on a troubling text.

The distinction between rights and tolerance is developed at great length in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind (Simon & Schuster, 1987), a book that is bound to be controversial because it argues that an excess of tolerance has led our culture to turn away from a dependence on those classic texts in our national history which celebrate certain principles on which the country was founded.

What these bishops did was to remove the totally inadequate religious textbooks and the advisers / inspectors who wrote and promoted them and provide the teachers with sound Catholic text - books which were not only faithful to the Catechism of the Catholic Church but which also taught the faith clearly, comprehensively and without any ambiguity.