Sentence examples for biblical conception from inspiring English sources

Built upon a biblical conception of nature appreciation and environmental stewardship, Restoring Eden advocates the protection of endangered ecosystems, species, and subsistence cultures.

The older biblical conception of Hades-Sheol as the gathering place of the dead retained its importance for the Christian tradition, however, as Christians reflected on the redemptive significance of Holy Saturday, the day between Christ's Crucifixion and his Resurrection.

Brunner saw this doctrine as a key to the biblical conception of revelation and further developed his views in several books, among them Revelation and Reason (1941), Dogmatics, 3 vol. (1946 60), Justice and the Social Order (1945), and Christianity and Civilization (1948 49).

A genuinely biblical conception of justice that prioritises forgiveness as a means to heal divisions is not about letting people off "free" - that financial metaphor again - but about shifting the paradigm so that our response to crime targets the need to re-establish harmony within the community.

The release of debts is just one facet of the Biblical conception of the shmitta year.

Some of this material, it must be said, appeared in "The God of Old" (2003), a book about biblical conceptions of God that Kugel happened to be writing as he underwent chemotherapy.

These two couples -- Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca -- teach us much not only about biblical conceptions of gender, but our own as well.

The narrative, which deals with a Jewish family who live on New York's east side, virtually is a modernized conception of the biblical story of Jacob and Esau, with an attractive Irish lassie introduced to widen the appeal.

Mesopotamian religious and cultural conceptions are reflected in biblical cosmogony, primeval history (including the Flood story in Genesis 6 9 8 22), and law collections.

As with similar laws in other states, it was adopted, virtually intact, from a 16th-century British statute When they were first written, laws against incest were founded on biblical prohibitions and intended to prevent the conception of genetically impaired children.

While these films draw on apocalyptic themes from the book of Daniel, they also play ironically on Gabriel's other biblical appearance, the Annunciation of the virginal conception in Luke.