Sentences with phrase «when sacred texts»

Not exact matches

A perfect example is in «The Last Jedi» (available on digital release Tuesday, on Blu - ray / DVD March 27) when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) attempts to burn down the giant tree that holds the sacred Jedi texts.

Maybe when we give ourselves to ancient words and sacred texts, and embrace routines and traditions, we can remember that we are not here for what we can get out of worship; we are here to give ourselves away in worship.

But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.»

Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

We experience God and revelation as perennially - unfolding, which means there's always room for new ways of understanding divinity and sacred text, especially when the old ways of understanding them (e.g. antiquated readings of Leviticus 18:22) turn out to be hurtful or to seem misguided.

During World War II, according to Dr. Holtom, Shinto nationalists hecjuently declared that the most sacred of all theft texts was the «divine» edict pronounced by Arnaterasu - Omi - Karni when she sent her grandson down from Talamaga - Hara to establish the state.

I rarely see Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, etc. people attacking science when it conflicts with their sacred texts.

However, when we actually read the text of The Five Wounds, we find there that Rosmini concludes: «Putting the sacred rites into the vernacular would induce greater problems than the remedies imposed,» and would be «a cure worse than the disease».

In a day when jihadist violence is an almost - daily occurrence, apologists for Islam sometimes claim religious equivalence — asserting that the sacred texts of the Judeo - Christian tradition have their own incitements to violence.

When this type of reasoning is applied to a sacred text, one is placed in the awkward position of either affirming the whole thing or selectively denying it on very tenuous grounds, such as one's present world view.

When some apply the sacred texts in a literal manner, attacks such as these take place.

«Do not let yourself be guided by the authority of the sacred texts, nor by simple logic, nor by appearance or opinion, nor even by the teachings of your master; when you know in yourself that something is bad, then give it up, and accept the good and follow it.»

«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.