Sentences with phrase «words in a religious context»

As you point out, many English words in a religious context do not mean the same thing in their original context... and sometimes not even in a modern non-religious context!

Not exact matches

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

A helpful context for issues of religious authority is given in James Packer's book «Fundamentalism» and the Word of God.