Sentence examples for secular scripture from inspiring English sources
Poetry becomes secular scripture.
But Shakespeare was well on his way to becoming secular scripture.
As secular scripture, the Western was a natural backdrop for romantic heroism.
During his confirmation hearing, Ashcroft embraced the secular scripture of the nation, the Constitution.
Its survival does not depend on any religious texts of revelation, or even secular scripture.
The Federalist Papers so often quoted to rationalize governmental stasis and congressional gridlock are almost always treated as secular scripture.
What are the quotes that form your own personal secular scriptures?
Daniel Train, a postdoctoral associate, will be teaching "Sacred and Secular Scriptures: An Introduction to Christian Approaches to Literature". This course will offer a broad survey of pivotal texts that have characterized Christianity's engagement with imaginative literature in the West, and explore the West's great debt to biblical texts and exegesis.
It was a selection that the soon-to-be Mr. and Ms. Vitt considered the secular equivalent of Scripture, excerpts from a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in the case of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.
In the period after 1700, as Christian Humanists ransacked secular histories for Scripture-saving details and as European travelers flocked to Asia Minor with Herodotus in their knapsacks, Herodotus' facts took on new functions, even as his 'lies,' too, spurred new ways of interpreting both ancient authorities and modern 'oriental' cultures and landscapes.
This secular, rational approach to Scripture made Spinoza arguably the father of Biblical criticism.
