«There is an increasing focus on the good
use of sacred texts in GCSE Religious Studies with a higher expectation that students will understand the references they are drawing on when they write in their exams,» he explained.
Not exact matches
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).
The Gospels, the Torah, the Koran and a thousand other
texts sacred and profane give us plenty
of other goals toward which to divert some
of the energy we've traditionally
used in raising large families, goals on which we've barely begun.
Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies
of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics
of the medieval church, formalized
texts and creeds
of the world's great modern religions, or even the
sacred rites and markers we
use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense
of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.
Nina Yankowitz's Criss ~ Crossing the Divine is an interactive installation that
uses technology to allow people to explore the relative perspectives
of sacred texts.
Houédard believed in the transformative power
of his word - based arrangements to elicit linguistic, visual and spiritual connections, citing previous examples as «
texts created for concrete
use: amulets talismans grigris mani - walls devil traps kemioth tefillin mezuzahs medals
sacred - monograms».