overarching meaning of life," this
sapiential dimension being
Nevertheless, there are hints at the multi-Personal and relational character of God here and in texts like the first reading from Israel's
sapiential literature.
Christian economic-ethical inquiry is a complex activity with intellectual as well as practical and
sapiential aspirations.
Similarly, today's psalmody from the 176-verse-long acrostic celebration of God's gift of Torah (better understood here as "instruction" than "law") witnesses from Israel's
sapiential tradition to the goodness of God's guiding providence in humankind's everyday affairs.
This article applies poetic analysis to the two occurrences in Proverbs, showing that when first introduced, shoah raised the
sapiential warning to a fierce crescendo (Prov.
And this is what is so distancing in a time of troubles, when the
sapiential witness of an Irving Babbitt, of a Richard M.
Mais je dirais qu'en m'eloignant du narratif et puis du legislatif et me rapprochant avec l'hymnique et le
sapiential, je recroise le monde grec.
Whereas Christians portray salvation as the restoration of right relationship with God, creation, and human beings by means of a grace signified through the Christ-event, Buddhists construe it as a
sapiential awakening to the self-less or empty nature of all things.
John Paul II in his recent letter, Fides et Ratio, sees the response to the quest for life's meaning to be a responsibility for philosophers to become constructive in the retrieval and pursuit of
sapiential knowledge, for surely scientific method cannot deal with meaning.
Nevertheless he dares to characterize early Alexandrian Christianity: governed by presbyters, whose appointment in churches is associated in Acts with the name of Barnabas; plural, because of the plurality of the city's community and not least the powerful presence of the Serapeum;
sapiential, as its early literature and later representatives indicate.
Thomas argues that while the terms sod and raz were already operative in early prophetic and
sapiential traditions, it is during the "late Achaemenid" or "early Hellenistic" period, particularly within Aramaic-speaking scribal circles steeped in apocalyptic thinking, where we find the appropriate conceptualization of "mystery" to investigate the use of mystery language in a Qumran context.
We touch here the difference between scientific theology and
sapiential theology.
