Sentence examples for sacred interpretation from inspiring English sources

Barwick swears her music isn't explicitly religious, but footage from a special 2013 performance at the Upper East Side's sterling cathedral, the Judson Memorial Church, makes it even harder to avoid sacred interpretation of her music.

But because of language barriers and reluctance on the part of artists to divulge much about their sacred traditions, interpretations offered in wall labels and in the catalog remain partial and speculative.

Nonetheless, given Leibowitz's views on God's transcendence, it is clear that the sacred and historical interpretations of the text are mutually exclusive when it comes to references to God's "intervention" in history or nature.

Most Islamists, however, insist on conformity to a code of conduct based on a literal interpretation of sacred scripture.

But Gilles Kepel, a leading French scholar of contemporary Islam, said the Afghan veterans were guided by their own radical interpretation of sacred Muslim texts.

I can think of no more tasteless use of the sacred, but the bizarre interpretation of religion in contemporary India means that hardly anybody thinks the tiles an outrage.

Our colleague Alissa J. Rubin writes from Bagram about the angry, violent protests there and throughout the country Tuesday — stemming from accounts that NATO personnel set fire to bags filled with Korans and other sacred books of Koranic interpretation.

We also intuitively understood congregational routine, authoritative interpretation of sacred literature, the prestige of historical continuity we understood that messiahs matter in this world, that the divine emerged within the precincts of a discipline, commandments, and the mass, all of which produced decorum before they produced grace.

We also intuitively understood congregational routine, authoritative interpretation of sacred literature, the prestige of historical continuity — we understood that messiahs matter in this world, that the divine emerged within the precincts of a discipline, commandments, and the mass, all of which produced decorum before they produced grace.

On the other hand, a perspective that insists on the essentiality of a doctrine of creation requiring some notion of temporal origin, as opposed to a doctrine emphasizing ontological dependence only, is difficult to defend on philosophical or hermeneutical grounds concerning the interpretation of sacred texts.

Inspired by the methods of the itinerant preachers whose activity was becoming more intense among eastern European Jews in the 18th century, his teaching took the form of homiletic interpretations of sacred texts based on fables and parables borrowed from daily life and from folklore.