Sentence examples for biblical literacy from inspiring English sources

Bishop Dixon was seen as a warm, empathetic mentor, particularly to female lay leaders and clergy in the Episcopal Church, which has wrestled in recent decades with rifts over gender roles, sexuality and biblical literacy.

Instead, they advocated a policy of "discreet" or indirect opposition in which they maligned individual vices brought on by slaveholding--i.e. the separation of families and the deprivation of Biblical literacy.

As the title suggests, Dreisbach's subject is biblical literacy.

Dreisbach's interpretations of Jefferson's and Washington's biblical literacy are among the more noteworthy insights from part one.

Recognizing this common biblical literacy, Dreisbach seeks to explain "the Bible's influence on the founders' political discourse and their experiment in republican self-government" (6).

Although few scholars would challenge this observation, Dreisbach argues that historians have failed to recognize the high biblical literacy of the nation's founders.

If this 36percentt of Americans is located in midwestern and southern states, increasing scientific literacy and reducing the amount of Biblical literalism becomes an important part of the strategy in the battle against climate denialism in the U.S. Congress.

For these reasons, it is not hyperbole to say that the fate of the world depends on scientific literacy, and reducing the reliance on Biblical scripture in environmental and climate policy decisions.

A border town of such size and culture, Dr. Tappy said, suggested a centralized bureaucracy, political leadership and literacy levels that seemed to support the biblical image of the unified kingdom of David and Solomon in the 10th century B.C. "That puts us right in the middle of the squabble over whether anything important happened in Israel in that century," Dr. Stager said.

Shmuel Ahituv, an Israeli Bible scholar who did not participate in the study, also believes literacy in ancient Judah was widespread before 586 BCE and that the biblical texts in question were written before the siege of Jerusalem.

Although the inscriptions are not from the Hebrew Bible, their discovery suggests there was widespread literacy in ancient Judah at the time that would support the composition of biblical works.