Sentence examples for biblical writers from inspiring English sources

But the biblical writers are interested in truth in some larger dimension.

The biblical writers can tell us what they think those events meant.

The pleasure is not so much in finding Biblical deposits in obviously Biblical writers like Shakespeare, Hardy, and Lawrence as in finding the same on apparently stonier ground.

Humans are, for most of the biblical writers, "a unit of vital power," not a dual creature separable into two distinct parts of unequal importance and value.

For most biblical writers this existence was without experience, either of God or of anything else; it was unrelated to events.

The full disclosure of the meaning of history, for many of the biblical writers, will occur only at the end of time, when revelation will be given to all peoples in full clarity.

To experience the "things hoped for" and "evidence of things not seen" of Hebrews, according to the biblical writer James we must take action.

It was intensely lyrical and musical, its rhythms a pressing mingle of Yiddish, American, English, and Hebrew (after Lawrence, Bellow was the most biblical of modern writers in English); but it was also grounded in speech, and seemed incapable of preciousness (unlike, say, the lovely but often pampered lustres of an Updike); it was witty, metaphysical, sensuous, playful.

They take on a hard, obstructive, processional quality; this is one of the reasons that McCarthy is so often called a mythic, or Biblical, or primordial writer.

Dutch theologian of the Reformed Church, biblical scholar, prolific writer, and a leading exponent of covenant theology, a school of religious thought emphasizing the compacts between God and man.

Many writers on biblical geography, as well as some modern Israeli experts, consider the Plain of Sharon proper to extend only as far north as the Tanninim River.