Sentence examples for secular wisdom from inspiring English sources

Over against this there is in most cultures a concurrent rivalry with other religions, with their contrary doctrinal claims, and beyond that, the challenges of secular wisdom and unbelief.

Governor Kitzhaber, a Democrat, who attended most of the events, viewed the Dalai Lama's message as secular wisdom: "If you listen to his speeches, he's not here in his capacity as a leader of Tibetan Buddhists, he's here as a Nobel Peace laureate.

As More reiterates in his aggressive championing of the humanist curriculum, Greek is the essential source both for secular wisdom and for the New Testament.

What is wholly illegitimate is the claim that secular wisdom dragged religion, kicking and screaming, into the realization that slavery was bad.

But for those who have been excluded from their religious path or otherwise hurt by religion, who object to the proven or potential corruptions within religion, the spiritual journey may involve studying/walking the road map of many religions, or of secular wisdom; it may involve forging one's own path.

Half a century's work, from archaic allegories to unpointed lyrics to secular prophecy and wisdom verses.

Thus the Ketuvim are a miscellaneous collection of liturgical poetry, secular love poetry, wisdom literature, history, apocalyptic literature, a short story, and a romantic tale.

His vast encyclopaedia of secular knowledge and wisdom consisted of an analytical exposition of Aristotle's thought combined with all the information and interpretations that Albertus had gathered from other, mainly Arabic, sources or that he had gained as the product of his own extensive research and speculation.

Males are regarded as superior to women in most activities; the elders are respected as repositories of both secular and spiritual wisdom; and people, such as cousins who may be of the same genealogical distance, are frequently divided into "marriageable" and "nonmarriageable" groups, with consequent differences in their interpersonal behaviour.

Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests.

I believe a university such as Yeshiva, with its proud embrace of religious wisdom with secular knowledge, can meet that responsibility.