Sentences with phrase «ancient religious practices»

Similar «eternal fires» integrated gas and flame emissions into ancient religious practices in many cultures.

This description of preparatory rites for a ceremony reflects ancient religious practices and beliefs surviving from the past centuries of Israel's existence.

Not exact matches

Professor Chung's speech resurrected the ancient debate over «syncretism» — the degree to which the Christian faith can and should accommodate other religious practices, and whether other faiths have sufficient truth without being troubled by the gospel of Christ.

Christianity, particularly that flagrantly practiced and grossly over-preached by evangelists, is also anti-science and is therefore putting our young people and our future workforce at a disadvantage relative to competing nations that now have better science education without religious bias and without the ancient supersti - tions that block modern understanding and technological and medical progress.

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

Understanding the religious practices of ancient Middle Eastern culture can and does help in understanding the story.

Further, the allusion to the practice of not fasting during a wedding is an allusion to a well - documented ancient Jewish practice of freeing wedding participants, including the guests, from religious obligations during the seven days of the wedding celebrations (References in Billerbeck, Kommentar I, p. 506.)

The impression we receive from the gospels, particularly the earlier ones, is that the practices commonly regarded as religious by the ancient world are never more than incidental to what He had to say.

Driven by her conviction that «the practices of living religious traditions have great wisdom to impart,» Dorothy Bass examines Christian practices in «both their ancient grounding and the fresh and vibrant forms they take today.»

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

Current awareness of the importance to the health of a family's relationships with the extended family (including the church) accents the significance of these ancient practices of the religious community.

by Ron Cichowicz In the United States more and more parents of baby boys are agonizing over circumcision, a practice that dates back to ancient times and remains shrouded in religious, social and medical issues.

The plant was used in the empires of ancient China about five thousand years ago, and has also been used as part of many religious practices.

It layers a personal disbelief onto these ancient healing techniques deeply rooted in cultural, religious, and spiritual practices.

Apart from providing the ultimate challenge for thrill - seekers, firewalking is an ancient religious and spiritual practice with the first recorded firewalk taking place in India 3000 years ago.

The practice in any case dates back to ancient times, Christianity only taking it up with later examples found from Mesopotamia; even later it was further established as a religious -LSB-...]

This exhibition focused on the religious practices of the ancient Mediterranean world and the modern challenges in piecing together an accurate picture of classical religion from surviving material fragments.

In the late colonial era, a crop of Nigerian artists known as the «Zaria Rebels» gave definition to the practice of meshing ancient indigenous art such as Nok with contemporary religious design and western technique.