Articles related to "Sacred Scriptures"

Some point to the Bible as the only source of Christ's teaching. But what is the connection between Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition in the Catholic Church?

The first five books of the Tanakh, called the Torah, are considered by many Jews to have been divinely inspired through Moses; but how did they come into existence?

The question of what it means to be a Christian nation depends upon the relative nature of religious orientation and the weaknesses of foundational commitment.

Violent terror as a method of influence is not limited to the Islamic Fundamentalist. Christian and Muslim alike share the use of this weapon.

Meditative Reading is a guide on how to turn reading into a spiritual practice. It's based on a three-step-model of Vedanta: 'shravana', 'manana' and 'nididyhasana'.

Following Constantine's policies of religious toleration, the Christian Church began to turn on itself through heresies like Donatism, threatening public peace.

Heresies emerged in the early church in part because there was no uniformity in doctrine.

Taking the mystery out of the numerous types of yoga practice

In 1966, the scrolls that Joseph Smith used to produce the Book of Abraham were uncovered in a New York museum. These scrolls contain the Breathing Permit of Hor.

Catholics don't pray to statues, don't believe in creationism, and don't interpret the Bible literally. What do Catholics believe?

Sogdian caravans spread kernels of the world's religions from China to Syria. They dominated the Silk Road as masters of trade, diplomacy, and translators of scripture.

"O blessed doctor, light of holy Church and lover of God's law, pray to the Son of God for us," Antiphon recited on the Feast Day of a Doctor of the Church.

Americans knew their mother country would always be there. Would Mum give them space to mature or smother them with taxes that would be the cause the American Revolution.

Central to the Restorationist movement is the Book of Mormon. The historicity of the book may be doubted, but the story of their discovery is a central to the faith.

When thinking about religiously inspired violence, its occurence within religious traditions is often forgotten.

The immediate intellectual context into which the Protestant Reformation was born was the Renaissance.

In William P. Young's book, The Shack, it is important to understand the implications of the plot before one studies the theological exposition of the novel.