Sentences with phrase «through violent death»

Jesus is telling His disciples that through His blood, that is, through His violent death as a sacrificial scapegoat, they will gain deliverance and release from the sin that has enslaved humanity since the foundation of the world.

Through violent death, their horror before it and their need to draw near it, the event relieves liturgically bereft men and women of that other death, boredom; and it momentarily strips the state, founded in self - interest, of its protective power.

Not exact matches

It was performed during the festival of Dionysus, which was a fertility festival, of course, but only because it was also an apotropaic celebration of delirium and death: the Dionysia was a sacred negotiation with the wild, antinomian cruelty of the god whose violent orgiastic cult had once, so it was believed, gravely imperiled the city; and the hope that prompted the feast was that, if this devastating force could be contained within bright Apollonian forms and propitiated through a ritual carnival of controlled disorder, the polis could survive for another year, its precarious peace intact.

When Jesus was arrested, sentenced to death for treason, and killed through violent capital punishment, Joanna could have quietly slipped back home.

Through His death on the cross, Jesus willingly submitted Himself to the violent death of ritualistic sacrifice as a way of exposing to humanity the sin to which humanity is enslaved.

First of all, do you see what is revealed through the violent and bloody death of Jesus?

With Paul these Christians gloried that — whether in persecution, famine, or violent death — they were «more than conquerors through him who loved» them (Romans 8:3 - 37).

Some researchers explain this wanton violence through «terror management theory»: To buffer ourselves from fear of death and reinforce our self - esteem and worldview, humans construct elaborate and sometimes violent defense mechanisms.

Standing at a height of five metres, this monumental projection depicts the five stages of awakening through a series of violent transformations and explores the fundamental themes at the core of our existence: life, death, birth, rebirth and transformation.

This monumental projection depicts the five stages of awakening through a series of violent transformations, exploring the very nature of our existence: life, death, birth, and rebirth.