Sentences with phrase «ancient spirits of»

The Furies were considered to be ancient spirits of vengeance who ensured that punishment was meted out to those who broke the natural laws of society.

Not exact matches

The Ancient Greeks, Russians, Zen Vajrayana Monks, Native Americans, Japanese Shinto Monks (they call it «Misogi ``, or spirit cleansing) and Spartan Soldiers were well aware of the benefits of cold water, and in 18th century the modern revival of cold water treatments was re-discovered in Germany under the new name «Hydrotherapy».

Participants worshipped according to ancient confessional liturgies and in sessions that seemed to call for adoration of earthbound «spirits» and even the earth itself.

The Jews people are great people, but what the Zionist are doing in the region is a complete hijacking to the good spirit of the ancient people.

The ancient practice of liturgy has helped us see how God is remaking us into a people who can become the answer to the prayers the Spirit is praying through us.

marcus aurelius was known in ancient world to caper and cavort with FOUL UNCLEAN SPIRITS DEMONS RAISED FROM GETHENNA TO MASTERS OF NIGHT LORD OF BABYLON!!!

«The story of the Christian God is ancient and shrouded in mystery» = > no, you confuse Christ and the Holy Spirit with Old Testament mystery.

The ancient Second Prayer highlights the epiclesis, the beseeching of the Holy Spirit to transform the gifts, and the anamnesis, the «memorial... linked to the Lord's Paschal Mystery».

The Holy Spirit is with millions (just ask) at this moment and Christ rose from the dead about 2,000 years ago which is close to the end of what is typically considered ancient history (476AD).

According to some historians, at this time of year, as the days grow darker, ancient Celts would don costumes as stand - ins for deceased spirits, going door - to - door and performing tricks in exchange for treats.

Micah 5:2» speaking of Jesus - whose goings forth are from old (ancient times) from everlasting (from eternity)» the Holy Spirit is eternal Heb.

Further, the liturgical renewal of the past half - century has made Protestant worship more similar in form and in spirit to the ancient liturgy that the Orthodox champion and purport to continue uninterrupted.

The ancients, too, vaguely sensed these difficulties, and always imagined the spirit or soul as having some body or form, even though, of necessity, it had to be of a ghostly or ethereal «substance», and pictured a spirit or soul world in which the soul found community.

We are still at war, of course, but the situation of the Church has materially altered, and I suspect that, by comparison to the burden the First Commandment lays upon us today, the defeat of the ancient pantheon, and the elemental spirits, and the demons lurking behind them will prove to have been sublimely easy.

It further seemed a matter of common - sense to ancient man that this inner spirit or soul, which he knew from the inside and which he witnessed in his fellows, should be immortal or deathless.

The man of faith lives in the new world without appealing to the ancient gods of heaven, for the very spirit of God is within him.

I only ask because it would seem you are saying that due to the nature of God we have no way to test for or verify the existence of the spirit realm, thus you have assigned those unknowable spirits superpowers the likes of which might be better found on the pages on a comic book or in ancient fairy tales.

The seventh and last chapter, «The World After Jesus,» eloquently points to ancient and modern individuals and groups who have been faithful to the Spirit of Jesus, including those who have seen better by the gospel light than some who are privileged to carry it.

Of course no minister ought to claim that he has the complete answer to this ancient and most persistent perplexity of the human spiriOf course no minister ought to claim that he has the complete answer to this ancient and most persistent perplexity of the human spiriof the human spirit.

It also made possible new adventures of the human spirit, for it was like a great reservoir into which the currents of ancient civilization flowed, and out of which rose all the streams of later history in the western world.

Instead, the most ordinary realms of life — what the ancients would have regarded as realms that have «an infrastructural relation» to the good life — can now be sanctified by a God - fearing spirit.

It is probable that ancient men used the word «spirit» rather differently from us, for an unseen spiritual world was an accepted part of their world - view.

Yep, that «believer» part and «leading of the Spirit» are two I don't use — they make a big difference when it comes to reading ancient texts.

From that fateful date the Holy Spirit, speaking through the Pope and the Fathers of the Council (not the periti) told the Church that a new frame was needed, both to safeguard the ancient treasury of the Faith, and to draw forth from that treasury «new» things for this age, as well as the old things.

Here, Paul, is extraordinarily important, for he is our first purely apocalyptic thinker, and so far as we now know the first ancient thinker fully to draw forth the subject of consciousness, an «I» or subject which he could know as a dichotomous subject, a subject wholly divided or doubled between an old «I» of «flesh» (sarx) and a new «I» of Spirit (pneuma).

Or, to put it in other terms, the boundary between the ancient world and the modern is to be traced, not in the Aegean or the middle Mediterranean, but in the pages of the Old Testament, where we find revealed attainments in the realms of thought, facility in literary expression, profound religious insights, and standards of individual and social ethics, all of which are intimately of the modern world because, indeed, they have been of the vital motivating forces which made our world of the human spirit.

Still, Hammurabi's Babylon marked the zenith of its ancient glories in stability and wealth, in literature and thought and the varied outreach of the human spirit.

Let us return to the words of Ecclesiastes, for this ancient preacher caught something of the spirit of relativity — a word that probably translates the original Hebrew word better than «vanity».

As for how we arc to use these resources for seeking and finding God, I imagine Julian saying something like this: Get firmly in your mind that each of these three really does correspond to one of the three persons of the Trinity — truth, to God the Father; wisdom, the ancient Sophia, to the second person, who is God our Mother; and love to the Holy Spirit.

Viktor von Strauss, the first to notice the ancient cultural change that was later named the Axial Period, described what he observed as «a strange movement of the spirit [which] passed through all civilized peoples».3 Such «movements of the spirit» may be the key to our understanding of the next phase.

On a more sophisticated level, liberal Protestantism refreshed weary spirits with the announcement that all those ancient obscurities in the Bible were really intended to say no more than that we should love, forgive, be charitable, promote justice, and usher in the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God.

Perhaps in this process we have some hint as to the way in which the mind of ancient man, less adept in handling abstract concepts, was led to express the conflicts he felt among the unseen forces about him in the form of stories of the gods and spirits.

The humanists eagerly sought the rebirth of the free and creative human spirit which they believed to have flowered in the ancient world and to have been lost in the Middle Ages.

My question is simple: How do you know that the Bible (in any form) was divinely (or Holy Spirit) inspired; and not just a collection of ancient Jewish scripture and Christian Greek scriptures?

Myth, properly understood, can serve contemporary man, as well as it served ancient man, for the verbal expression of the response of the human spirit to the environment of his existence.

Any notion of inspiration must embrace and engage the notion that God, by his Spirit, speaks within ancient categories.»

We are spirit as well as matter, and as St Paul said when he was talking to the best minds of the ancient Greek world in Athens, it is in God that «we live and move and have our being», and in communion with God through Jesus Christ lies our personal and social destiny.

According to the Hebrew Scriptures, the now - fallen human race (of two) was left alone to sort out its own destiny, but we get an idea of where things were going, because the Creator did express approval of certain individuals and used his holy spirit to give them help, guidance, and power, if they had need of it, e.g. Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Daniel, and the other ancient prophets.

These references depict a society still in touch with its roots, old men and old women renewed in the shade of Jesse's ancient stock, their old frames, matured by godly fear and faith, now become the polished horn for the spirit's eloquence: «The people who have walked in the dark have seen a wonderful light... for unto us a child is born.»

If the first century notions of a maternal spirit and an androgynous Jesus were indeed early teachings that the developing church subsequently rejected (for whatever reasons), then a «balanced out» theology of the Christian godhead, informed by psychological insights, has both «modern» relevance and «ancient» precedent.

(The dove, a visible sign of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament accounts of Jesus» baptism, was a bird often linked to female deities in the ancient Near East.)

Brisman does little to explore the motivation behind Jacob's revisionary spirit; therefore little insight is gained into the significance of this revised work for ancient or modern readers.

In dismissing the feminine Holy Spirit as an idea present only in «obscure and heretical sects on the periphery of the Christian church,» Jewett had relied on research that did not take into account the 1945 discovery near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of some 50 ancient texts.

, and rush out of the house with four minutes to spare for a five - minute sprint to church, and then... then I would simply turn north, through the small woods between our house and Mass, and head to the village bakery, perhaps, or just stroll unconcernedly along the railroad tracks, a free man, subject to no ancient religion and its pompous authority, bound by no rules and regulations — an independent spirit, a young man choosing his road for himself.

The ancient prerogative of collegiate rule is prominent in the formulary of presbyteral ordination with its petition for purity of heart to enable the presbyter to govern and give counsel, to be «filled with the Spirit» as «the presbyters of Moses» (Num.

This is the ancient Christian teaching and remains the Orthodox understanding of what salvation is — namely, the process of becoming complete, whole, safe, in - filled with the Holy Spirit.

It is one of only a handful of distilleries in the UK to prepare its own neutral spirit on site and claims to be the only distillery in the world to use populations of sustainably grown ancient heritage grains.

Oneworld Retreats offer you the chance to immerse yourself in this ancient ritual and leave with a lighter spirit and sense of peace.

Chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces before he became an archaeologist, Yadin had used his new field to pump up the volume on Israel's ancient roots, warrior spirit and right to exist.

With nothing but some scuba equipment and an intrepid spirit, the two cofounded Paleo Quest and SharkFinder, which enlist students to hunt for fossils of ancient sharks, rays, and invertebrates.