Sentence examples for secular sciences from inspiring English sources

"It is through the search for God that the secular sciences take on their importance".

At the same time, however, for fear of heresies, they began to draw a sharp distinction between religious and secular sciences.

It is not rare in the history of Islam that the rulers' private attachment to philosophy and their friendship with philosophers goes hand in hand with official disapproval of philosophy and persecution of its adherents, accompanied by the burning of their philosophical writings and the prohibition of the study of secular sciences other than those required for the observance of the religious law.

The new interpretation of Islam and of the role of the caliph promoted by al-Ma'mun,[20] as well as the increasing interest in the secular sciences of the elites of Islamic society,[21] created the context for the development of the translations into Arabic.

A more recent tendency, the so-called school of the separation of the religious and secular sciences (maktab-i tafkik), accuse Mulla Sadra of conflating the faith and the study of scripture with 'Greek science' and of violating the literal sense of scriptural verses in pursuit of his philosophical agenda; they argue that Mulla Sadra does not represent an 'authentic', scripturalist philosophy.

Browne (1995) also reports that Grant gave Darwin copies of his (Grant's) papers on marine zoology published that same year in that same Edinburgh volume (there were four of them) and that Darwin read them "almost as if collecting all possible points of view about transmutation and secular science in general".

In the confrontation between secular science and the scripture we have a head-on collision".

Yet, what we need at this juncture is a sober assessment of just how secular science has been ursurping religious or spiritual sensibilities plus a belief system about the universe around us.

David Brooks's suggestion ("One Nation, Enriched by Biblical Wisdom," column, March 23) that courses in the Bible, the Koran and other religious works should be mandatory because these works reveal aspects of human nature that secular social sciences do not ignores the other main sources from which public school students are currently educated about human nature: secular literature and history.

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

"I think the resonance is this: if you have a festival that's about Enlightenment, you are focusing on a time when society became secular, when science won out over religion, when, by the forces controlling society, we meant economic forces rather than God or the devil.