Sentence examples for secular history from inspiring English sources

These are the groups who put the weight on their shoulders to make sure the theocratic right do not overtake the US and anyone who believes in upholding the secular history of this nation and the further secularization that rebuilds the wall that separates church and state that the right has spent decades taking apart.

Most scriptural characters show up only passingly in secular history.

Doctrines and dogmas also have influenced and been influenced by the ongoing development of secular history, science, and philosophy.

There is palpable relief when the premodern is left behind, for now we see Jews fully enter into secular history.

Another was his Chronography, consisting of a secular history from the time of creation and an ecclesiastical history of the patriarchate of Antioch and the Eastern Jacobite church.

He was appointed the first professor of secular history at Harvard and served as president of the college from 1849 to 1853.

The period from about 1100 to 1264 is also dealt with in several secular histories, known collectively as Sturlunga saga, the most important of which is the Íslendinga saga ("The Icelanders' Saga") of Sturla Þórðarson, who describes in memorable detail the bitter personal and political feuds that marked the final episode in the history of the Icelandic commonwealth (c. 1200 64).

There was relatively little overlap between the reading audience of secular histories and the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius and his successors.

Though most of my students believe religion provides a sense of peace and comfort, some think this comfort is founded on myths that cannot be reconciled with secular histories and scientific facts.

"For secular music history and instrumental music history, he was the primary force behind the invention of the trio sonata, which he does not get enough credit for, by the way.

This fits France's sense of secular, revolutionary History, carrying the country forward, however fitfully, like an "endless cortege proceeding towards the light", in the words of Jules Ferry, a 19th-century educationalist.