Sentences with phrase «ancient understandings»
This is what happens when new technologies clash with ancient understandings of the sacred.
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TeSelle is intimately familiar with the historical environment that Augustine inhabited and with great sensitivity examines ancient understandings of the city in order to....
Throughout God and the Gay Christian we see how patriarchy and ancient understandings of gender roles affected how same - sex behavior is referenced in Scripture.
Still, it may be worth pondering that in this brave new world, those who uphold the old and much derided «gender binary» — or, to speak more properly, the ancient understanding that there is a real and normative difference between the sexes — will be the ones who can actually see some sort of meaning, however misguided, in things like same - sex desire and gender dysphoria.
The martyrdom of Christians throughout history, and particularly in the Middle East today, is a living example of what Gustaf Aulén called Christus victor — an ancient understanding of the atonement which points to the basic model of the work of Christ as a warrior overcoming sin, death, and the demonic.
The debate over when life begins is not a modern phenomenon, but one the ancients understood and considered crucial.
They accepted the ancient understanding of a meaningless and endless succession of states and experience and undertook to find the way in which this could be brought to an end.
The ancients understood that the unbidden communication in the night opens sleepers to a world different from the one they manage during the day.
All of these ancient understandings of sexuality affect how same - sex behavior discussed in Scripture, and all of them should call into question the notion that people — and the Church — have a held just one single «traditional» view of same - sex behavior.
Early on, the ancients understood the root's value.
An expert in Feng Shui, the ancient understanding of energy — or Chi — in nature, highlighted this cliff - top hideaway for its powers of healing and good fortune.