Sentences with phrase «through ancient texts»

He suggested the cardinals hang around for the afternoon while he poured through the ancient texts to see if he could find any decree that the clergy were supposed to remain «celibate».

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The very grisly show has had fans combing through episodes for clues, and cross-referencing those clues with everything Bayou geography to obscure horror fiction to ancient mystic texts.

Certainly none of the writers of any of the ancient texts ever used a female to trace back a family tree, (and they did often go to great lengths to trace them back through male lines).

Together with the opening line of the Letter to the Hebrews («In ancient times God spoke to man through prophets and in varied ways, but now he speaks through Christ, His Son...»), as well as many other biblical texts, this passage reveals to us a startling truth.

The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings — sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.

You can assert that god exists and you can have the strength of numbers to back you up, but it is your responsiblilty to prove the existence of God through real physical evidence instead of ancient texts and leaps of faith.

As the Word springs forth from the vortex of its ancient setting to express itself through the vortex of text / preacher / people in social context, the Word of God happens; it becomes a proclamation event in the lives of the people experiencing the sermon.

As Gerhard von Rad has established in his great work, The Theology of the Old Testament, and principally in volume one, «The Theology of Traditions,» Israel essentially confessed God through the ordering of its sagas, traditions, and stories around a few kernel events from which meaning spread out through the whole structure.4 Von Rad believes he has discovered the most ancient kernel of the Hebraic Credo in a text such as Deut.

When the text thus interprets its interpreter, it does so not through re-engaging belief in ancient religious categories but by raising questions about the would - be interpreter's existence — his estrangement from himself and others, his experienced «fulfillment gap» between what he is and what be could be.

Most adults in this country don't have the intelligence to make it through a novel, how can we trust them to make good judgments based on an ancient text from an ancient people?

Through the course of this investigation, the author appears to discuss nearly every ancient text that has anything of interest to say about afterlife in the cultures that he covers.

Joseph and Almeida, who spent three years digging through ancient Indian texts and Vatican archives, believe Jesuit priests brought scientific knowledge from southern India to Western Europe.

But most scholars have approached the history of ancient mathematical sciences through close examinations of texts and writings, an area of study called philology.

From highly learned practitioners, educators and experts across the globe to those who have toiled for years and studied through the deep recesses of Ayurveda, imbibing conscious learning straight from the ancient Sanskrit texts and gaining experience in treating patients of all kinds in India, we bring to you an array of the very best.

It was through Campbell's seminars on the mythology of India that Leslie received her first exposure to Sanskrit, the language of sacred sound, ancient Indian texts, and of Yoga.

Biblical archaeology evidences for ancient Semetic presences through out the Middle East that verify the Scriptual records, the Moabite stone, Samaria Ok, I am confused... I thought guys were totally into the text versus actually talking on the phone.

A hack and slash action series with stories loosely based around ancient Chinese historical texts, Dynasty Warriors was a great way to spend an evening with a friend, slicing your way through thousands of enemies in battles of epic proportions.

Written to last 2 weeks - at the end of which, the class will write an explanation text linked to the process of mummification (however, this could be linked to any process EG: opening a tomb, getting through the afterlife, becoming a Pharoah etc) Written and taught as part of a wider topic on Ancient Egypt.

Driven by his love for the ancient texts and by his own need to find healing following the cruel and protracted deaths of his girlfriend and his father, Doerries began reaching out through his theater company to people whose lives had been devastated by forces beyond their control — members of the military and their families, health professionals, guards and prisoners inside the giant American incarceration system, individuals and towns and cities reeling in the wake of natural disaster.

Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric texts: the sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung and Tibetan scriptures refer to the mysterious world as Shambhala I lam - yig, B'on treaties as Olmolungring, Hindu histories as Aryavarth, Chinese as Hsi Tien, and Russian traditions as Belovoyde.In an esoteric treatise composed in the early 1500s by Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, the Third Panchen Lama describes his remarkable visit to a land of wise masters hidden deep in the Himalayas.

Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric texts: the sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung a...