Sentences with phrase «ancient order of»

It was originally the Ancient Order of Foresters before it was named the Independent Order of Foresters in the States in 1874, and now just goes by Foresters.

In the film, a white American surgeon travels to a mythical temple in the Far East to learn the mystic secrets of an ancient order of sorcerers overseen by Tilda Swinton, a white woman of U.K. descent.

The newfound species, Caiuajara dobruskii, belongs to an ancient order of winged creatures known as pterosaurs.

«New York hasn't had an Irish mayor since Robert Wagner, whose mother was Irish, but Kelly and Quinn sounds like a meeting of the Ancient Order of Hibernians,» Carroll said.

A flyer has been circulating to supporters touting a «special announcement» on Saturday, April 8th at Ancient Order of Hibernians at 1 PM and asking for RSVPs.

Santosh Baraily, right, a refugee form Bhutan, waits in line to cast his first ever vote at the Ancient Order of Hibernians Tuesday April 19, 2016 in Albany, NY.

A large turn out for the New York presidential primary crowds the Ancient Order of Hibernians Tuesday April 19, 2016 in Albany, NY.

Jasmine Barone, center, and Dylan LaBarge sign in to vote in the New York presidential primary at the Ancient Order of Hibernians Tuesday April 19, 2016 in Albany, NY.

At 8 p.m., Hochul accepts an award at the American Irish Legislators Society Annual Dinner, Ancient Order of Hibernians, 375 Ontario St., Albany.

The competence to formulate doctrine made the emperor the last and most effective of the ancient order of teachers.

The YHWH of Israel, who was also the God and Father of Jesus Christ, does not belong to the ancient order of supernatural beings who can be neatly described by man's carefully chosen words.

The game takes place in London, though it's set in an alternate reality where an ancient order of knights keeps the world safe from monsters.

Not exact matches

According to the documentary film «Saving Mes Aynak,» the mine would in effect destroy the ancient city, though MCC and the Afghan government claim that they will «move» the city in order to extract the more than $ 100 billion of copper deposited directly beneath it.

The experience of history ¯ both ancient and in our own time ¯ has taught us that no government has the power to change the order which God has inscribed in our nature.

In particular, we pray for peace in Ukraine, a country of ancient Christian tradition, while we call upon all parties involved to pursue the path of dialogue and of respect for international law in order to bring an end to the conflict and allow all Ukrainians to live in harmony.

Such imagery was prevalent in ancient creation myths, and typically, when the gods of these myths set out to bring order to the chaotic waters, they did so through war, battle, and violence (Greg Boyd, God at War, 159 - 164).

The new fact stains the ancient truths, forcing them to adjust their framings in some small but irreversible way in order to take account of it.

On a far higher level, intellectually and spiritually, is that very noble philosophical poem called the Wisdom of Solomon, and that still nobler monument of ancient Hebrew thought, the Book of Job, a dramatic dialogue in splendid and sonorous verse upon the theme of suffering and its place in a providential order.

The latter in particular appears to have been designed not to explicate ancient texts but to force the Jewish religion into line with his own entirely philosophical preference for a liberal order supportive of individual freedom.

Fundamentalists seem to be doing such preaching, but they do so in order to draw their subsector of society back to the ancient texts and contexts.

A cookbook and an assembly manual will generally go in total chron order so the user does nt mess up the meal or the machine they're building, but the Genesis account is written in an ancient Hebrew style that shares none of your modern techno - biases.

Using all available means, they examine the ways of living and thinking, the customs and institutions, and the life - situations of the people originally addressed by the ancient writers in order to determine the intended meaning.

The idea that a Man is the Head of the Home has its roots in secular ancient culture, not in the Word of God or the created order of humanity.

See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into history himself as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).

For the ancient Greek philosophers, if one may oversimplify, the world was governed and ordered by a cosmic principle of reason.

We can sum up what actually did become the way of Christian living in the ancient world by saying that the Christians lived in the economic, political and social orders of their time seeking new patterns but conforming to the general requirements of the common life, and accepting constituted authority except when it required idolatrous worship.

Perhaps encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II's tireless journeys in search of a new church order, Jakovos and Demetrios have embarked on a series of visits to ecclesiastical capitals, ancient and modern.

Recalling the lives of the consecrated virgins who lived during the few centuries prior to the emergence of structured religious orders, Dohen claimed for herself an ancient precedent for the life of freedom and union with God.

Encouraged by this apparent openness, advocates for the admission of women to the diaconate have continued to examine the historical sources — early Church orders, ancient and medieval rites, and literary and epigraphical evidence.

Unluckily just when scientists are opening their minds to a nondeterministic view of cosmic order many philosophers, here and in England, are still playing the old game (as old as ancient stoicism) of trying to reconcile human freedom with strict causal determination of all events.

There emerge, however, from the «periphery» (so to speak) rather than from the center, pockets of order, meaning, and value which grow, spread, and die — that order, those values, and those meanings which gradually grew and spread until they constituted the various Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt would be an example of how order, value, and meaning emerge from the «bottom» and spread «upward» and «outwards» into dynamic pockets or aggregates of order, meaning, and value which prosper - overcoming and absorbing other pockets of order — until they no longer embody the imagination, vigor, and zest required for continued vitality and find themselves absorbed into other competing orders or gradually disintegrating into the silence of a Dark Age.

Apparently, reading ancient hieroglyphs and cave paintings in the here and now tell us more about the truth of the alienated human being than any day to day feeling of ennui while ordering a latte at Starbucks.

But it is in order to ask whether there is not an imperative in every age for the production of «sacred» literature which will express — possibly better than the ancient writings — the deepest religious insights and experiences of civilization.

Human nature, in the sense of man's basic physical, emotional, impulsive and intellectual constitution, somehow moral at the core, seemed plainly more fundamental than any particular sort of human behavior, even economic; and human nature itself emerges in a world order far more ancient and more fundamental still.

In Taylor's narrative, Plato stands as the representative of the ancient view of the self, for which being rational meant conforming oneself to an objective order outside the self.

This is immediately followed by the assertion that the Church's position «is grounded in a proper view of economics, true to the etymology of the term, which emerged in ancient civilizations and in early Christian history to describe the arrangement of a household — God's household, which is ordered and open to those who long to sit at the table which they helped set.»

In this ancient view of salvation, Christ became human in order to go into the realm of death, where we were held captive.

The word kosmos in ancient Greek actually means «order» and not «universe,» and in their mythology the Greeks claimed that the cosmos emerged out of Chaos, which is simply a way of terminating the wonderment in a non «explanation, indeed in a nonsensical non «explanation.

Which is appropriate, after all, since most of the ancient thinkers who have inspired her work certainly understood that our quest for eudaimonia is profoundly dependent upon the social order in which we live and think.

Both ancient Jews and Christians expressed this priority religiously when they proclaimed that the God of order and peace is, first and foremost, righteous and just.

According to all the ancient sources, Jesus was executed by order of the Procurator Pontius Pilate; according to Luke 3:1, 2, the Baptist also appeared under Pontius Pilate.

If once again one may be guilty of some measure of overmodernization in order to bring out the essential meaning, we may assert that the great achievement of the Hebrew people, practically unparalleled as it was in the ancient world, was the attainment of a limited monarchy.

St. Dominic founded the Order of Preachers after a long contemplative season which, in the words of one biographer «burst into flame» when he encountered Albigensians (ancient Manichean dualists) on travels through southern France.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

The Greek term psyche (soul), which Christians naturally found themselves using in order to describe the spiritual aspect of a man, already implied the dualistic approach to human nature and introduced a concept for which there had been no verbal equivalent in the language of ancient Israel.26

[12] The ancient definition of truth articulated by St.Thomas as adaequatio rei et intellectus (correspondence of the intellect and the thing) was rejected in favour of a «consistent ordering of the information coming from the senses.»

There are a variety of ways in which this is so, but, at the same time, it's clear that certain aspects of pagan familial virtue are not exactly incompatible with the Biblical sacred order that can check or overcome their excesses and pathologies — just as the Biblical order imposes powerful interdicts, not to be confused with taboos, against the kind of violent desires that, to the morbid fascination of the ancient Greeks, deconstructed and destroyed the identities of family - bound individuals.

Instead of the Sermon's provision for cases at law, for the exercise of charity, for civic virtue, presupposing if at the same time reinterpreting the requirements of the ancient national code; instead of the Old Testament Law with its provisions for the inheritance of property, for various kinds of civic and social duties, albeit of a primitive order, which the Sermon presupposes, (Matt.

ALL religions are nothing but ancient mythology, written thousands of years ago by primitive people in order to try and explain existence, comfort people in the face of their mortality and keep people in line.

Now that those who are «with it» no longer look to the Old Man of the Mountain for his ancient help, everyone seems to experiment with some kind of substitute which he thinks will order the universe and bring happiness.