Also in the running are Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh and The Secret Scripture by the previously-shortlisted Irish writer Sebastian Barry.
"We cannot be in fellowship with them when they violate the explicit scripture that the Anglican Church subscribes to, " said the Very Reverend Peter Karanja, provost of All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya.
But in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things.
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things.
May God bless the memory of the victims and, in the words of Scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds.
Interestingly, as Christians and Jews celebrated Easter and Passover this past week, their commemorations prompted much public talk about the relationship between religious scripture and the role of government.
Mr. Burton's treatise, like the man himself, rests between two ages one in which the authority of Scripture reigned supreme, and a newer era acknowledging the power of deductive reasoning to sort out life's great questions.
Where are our authors and playwrights working with translators to preserve the poetry of scripture?
The change here was more a re-commitment to the values in scripture than in imposing new values.
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Those at Geist proclaimed that the ELCA was undermining the authority of scripture.
"It is breaking the law of the Church in the sense of Christian teaching... the teaching still is that active homosexual practice is not compatible with the teaching of scripture, " he said.
He wondered if the call was long-distance, if he should yell out to stop reading Scripture into the phone at twelve cents a minute.
In his 2011 book, "Jesus of Nazareth, " he made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Christ, explaining biblically and theologically why there was no basis in Scripture for the argument that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for Jesus' death.
In fact, they have remained surprisingly conspicuous, becoming a kind of secular scripture for the aid fraternity.
Scripture was the other source for information on Cyrus, as it chronicled the invasion of Babylon and the freedom of Jews.
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The point that hit me hardest while reading was the fallible origin of Scripture, which I had never considered (to my own surprise).
But nothing beats scripture and the reminder of the eternal.
The only evidence is scripture, which is just as apt to tell us flying horses are coming to do us all in right around the time the Third Temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem and people start disappearing in the fields because they love God more than most.
It set the Church on what it called a new "trajectory", away from a traditional conviction that active homosexuality was simply outlawed by the Bible, towards an assumption that scripture could be interpreted in radically different ways within the same church.
In an interview Wednesday with CNN, Maldonado said she has been turning to Scripture to survive the ordeal.
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There are plenty of metaphors and allegories in scripture, but the plain reading of the text does not in any way indicate that Genesis is an example of this.
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In contrast, the religious left is at least consistent, albeit in a perverse manner, especially when it concedes openly that its case for the welfare state rests on Scripture.
In 1997 the charity decided to develop a scripture-based literacy program for kids, called Phillip's Project.
The name Kuan-Shu, which means "observing trees" in Chinese, refers to Buddhist scripture about attaining truth while immersed in the peacefulness of nature.
The law is distilled from rural custom and Hindu scripture, and generally holds that land is owned collectively by families and then passed to the next generation, as represented by sons.
One is a scripture-backed purist of the sort you would have found in the early church, the other a 1990s realist who can also find chapter and verse to support him.
Variations of place names for Nazareth (sometimes called Natzrat or Nazara), Capernaum (Kapharnaum) and Tzippori (Sepphoris) appear in biblical texts and in the Talmud, an ancient Jewish rabbinical scripture written in Hebrew and Aramaic.
The society was founded in 1816 to provide Biblical scripture to anyone who might need it.
At fifteen she decided that the unprovable did not exist, and told her scripture teacher so without prevarication.
He quoted scripture, in a way to elevate the discussion to a higher plane, and in a humanely universal way that spoke to no exclusive faith.
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