Sentence examples for sacred understanding from inspiring English sources

Whereas most Western democracies had adopted some form of national health-care program, the United States relied on a private system that revolved, as the sociologist Paul Starr has recounted, around a sacred understanding of the doctor-patient relationship.

It'll be something like "desecration of a corpse is something that goes against our sacred understanding of body care".

Like the miracle of the oil that lasted eight days, so too must our consumption of resources reflect a sacred understanding of our lives and our work.

In all the higher religions, doctrines and dogmas emerge and develop in the service of instruction for the faithful: interpreting their sacred scriptures, understanding their obligations and duties, and safeguarding the lines between allowable diversity and actual error all of which help to chart the religious pathway to wisdom, rectitude, and fulfillment.

Each is deeply committed to its own understanding of sacred scripture and revealed truth; neither has been very eager to reread those sacred truths in the light of changing realities.

Winner of the prize for Best Screenplay at Cannes, New York born-and-trained Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar has here created the wryest of Jewish comedies, an emotional competition that pits father against son, built around the understanding of sacred texts.

Basic to an understanding of sacred kingship is a recognition that the exercise of power of one person over other persons or over a community (local, regional, or imperial) in early times was general and not divided.

Modern scholarship complicated every traditional understanding of sacred books.

The keynote speaker, a former U.S. ambassador to the Middle East, highlighted how respect and understanding the sacred texts of others can build bridges where threats, angry e-mails, and lists of wrongs fail.

Understanding the complex relationship between a religious tradition and its sacred text is foundational to understanding the tradition itself.

But Ms. Cajune said there was also an uncanny kinship between the tribal and Buddhist cultures, based on understandings of sacred landscapes, and even notions of honor and respect.