Sentences with phrase «wrote religious texts»

Anyone who is facinated by his work, or Tolkien's should look into the writings of another one of the Inklings, Charles Williams, who wrote religious texts, poetry, and fiction, including the novels WAR IN HEAVEN, ALL HALLOW»S EVE, and MANY DIMENSIONS.

The people who wrote religious texts didn't know what micro and macro physics were.

Not exact matches

The «religiously devout» is important, for Geck puts to death the notion, prominent from the early 1960s through the 1980s, that correct dating of Bach's cantata production proves that his interest in writing liturgical music was a professional obligation only and that Bach had no abiding commitment to the religious texts he was paid to set.

«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your religious texts were written by human beings without any kind of «divine inspiration» regardless of what you read in them... written by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.

You can not point to any one and say this is the right one (with any authority other than «what you want to believe») Every religious text I've ever read is clearly written via the various perceptions of man, not some divine being.

Religion is a tool used to shape our world, and the bible and other religious texts are full of clues because they we're written by those who guard the knowledge.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

Not all religious thought waited until texts could be written to start and not al religions focus on do's and don'ts though they all do try to help us make better decisions if they are worth the long survivals they've had; both in their own religion and those that took their ideas and reformed them for their current times.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

«The importance of studying parallels lies in providing a check against isolating the Hebrew prophet from his specific historical context as if his text represented a timeless religious literature that floated above all historical particularity,» he writes.

Finally, in reading such texts one must keep in mind the end to which they were written, namely, religious edification.

While it may be hard to understand, our knowledge of the world has actually evolved over the last several thousand years so many of the ancient understandings of the way the world works — and written into religious text — are obviously and verifiably wrong.

Religious texts are typically written in such a way making it impossible to prove or disprove their deities» existence.

(As regards the secondary character of intellectual constructions, and the primacy of feeling and instinct in founding religious beliefs, see the striking work of H. Fielding, The Hearts of Men, London, 1902, which came into my hands after my text was written.

if were only going to use the KJV why stop at greek, or latin why not only read the original texts which were written in Coptic the simple fact is not a single one of us, including our highest religious leaders, other then about 30 ancient language specialist in the world have ever read an original scripture.

Many religious texts are written with tales of magic and exageration to draw people in so they eventually get down to the deeper meanings and more life useful stuff.

This is why religious texts are often written on many levels.

As well as polemics Luther was writing his pastoral theology, his Fourteen Consolations for the very ill Elector, and a text on The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy and True Body of Christ, compared in its nature as a fellowship event with the degenerate «religious» fellowship of the craft brotherhoods.

And I freely admit I sometimes use too many extraneous, space - consuming, overly - descriptive, qualifying, words or sentences written quickly and in a stream - of - conscientiousness, run - on sort of fashion with occasional typos mostly due to fatigue of being up way too late (which also explains this post in general) after a long day of political discussion which refreshingly had little religious content though of course there is often much overlap between the two but posting is barely a hobby but more of an occasional passtime so now i wonder if what I write could be considered abuse as I've can't really recall seeing much if any sorrt of «text filibustering» not that this is exactly filibustering more a spontaneous text performance response joke and meant in jest to be absurdly long and useless so of course i hope you appreciate the spirit.

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.

My children will have approximately 1 / 7th greater life experiences because they won't be wasting a day trying to commune with a non-existent all - powerful being with pathological tendencies, if you base his existence on what you read in the various religious texts some men (no women) wrote several thousand years ago.

The Bible, Torah, Koran, and all other great religious texts are written and inspired by man, and man is inherently flawed.

Although the book deals specifically with the Bible as a written text, the analytic framework is sufficiently broad to be applied to many other kinds of religious discourse as well.

Times when Henry VIII's secretary wrote in grim jest to his friend Erasmus that the scarcity and dearness of wood in England were due to the quantities wasted in burning heretics, or when later the Puritan Cartwright, defending by Biblical texts the barbarities of religious persecution, exclaimed, «If this be regarded as extreme and bloodie I am glad to be so with the Holy Ghost»?

Texts Cruddas and Rutherford's NS review of Richard Reeves and Philip Collins's The Liberal Republic; «No turning back», by Neal Lawson (NS, 5 March 2009); Bunting has written sympathetically about another communitarian philosopher, Michael Sandel, who, in his 2009 Reith Lectures, called for religious ideas to be given greater prominence to counter the amoralism of the market.

In addition to half a dozen important texts, Kepler wrote hundreds of letters sharing the details of his personal affairs — how he married, mourned the deaths of his children, moved from place to place to escape religious persecution.

Religion is not being exposed to new science and most religious texts were written at a time when scientific paradigms or beliefs were wrong.

LANGUAGE 10 - About 60 F - words and its derivatives, 1 F - word written in a text message, 1 obscene hand gesture, 5 sexual references, 18 scatological terms, 12 anatomical terms, 15 mild obscenities, name - calling (stupid, dumb, retarded stepchild, idiot, playboy, deadbeat), exclamations (keep your mouth shut, jeez), 5 religious profanities (GD), 15 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, Holy [scatological term deleted], Oh God, God Forbid, Jesus, Lord Almighty, Gold Almighty).

«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.

Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.

A text written by the artist is available for free for everyone, regardless of religious denomination.

In 1996, Daniel Birnbaum wrote for frieze on Kamprad's elaborate moral philosophy as outlined in his 1976 text The Testament of a Furniture Dealer: «It is easy to forget that Kamprad's highly - strung manifesto concerns a furniture company, and not some religious or political movement hoping to save mankind from the temptations of worldly evil.»

Rather «My case is that of the IPCC my chosen priests of my religious faith who are rewarded based on their faith in my religion, backed up by evidence that I refuse to present (because I refuse to present information that contradicts my religious faith) and the Science my sacred Text as written by the chosen priests of my religious faith.»

The approach advocated by the Commission gives full weight, as a matter of interpretation, open in the text, to the word «traditional» in sub-sec 223 (1), and avoids the mockery which would be constituted by mandating failure of a claim if there be any gap revealed in the admissible (eg non-hearsay) evidentiary description of the social and religious conduct of people without writing from pre-1788, continuously, until and during the shock and disruption of non-indigenous settlement.