Sentences with phrase «archaic religious»

They bear witness to vanished civilizations and archaic religious rites, but also the birth of psychoanalysis, Freud's flight from Nazi persecution, and his death in the study after a long battle with cancer.

The image of a promising God who meets us Out of the mysterious future subverts the archaic religious instinct to seek fulfillment in nature or in the present moment alone, or in an escape from history into timelessness.

For this reason archaic religious symbols imply on ontology.

For many years — perhaps since the Scopes trial in 1925 — the eastern secular and liberal Protestant establishments treated evangelical religion as though it were an archaic religious form, peculiarly persistent in some regions of the country, but not a significant factor in American culture.

Submission to some of the archaic religious rules in an impediment to human evolution.

In the 21st century, there is no reason for the pervasive and archaic religious based thinking in the public square.

Ignorant people and their stupid, archaic religious practices.

Not exact matches

Again, the Christian religious practice of going back to the Old Testament to relive the archaic events Yahweh performed on his people, a practice which was commanded by both Yahweh and Christ, is really a call for the people of God to move forward and continue the march toward the Promised Land.

Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy; Peter L. Berger, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovering of the Supernatural (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1969); Mircea Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Reality (London: Harvill Press, 1960), 19; Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures, 107; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment, 156; Philip E. Slater, Microcosm: Structural, Pschological and Religious Evolution in Groups (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966).

The Christian is being challenged to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the word «God», he is speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply repeating an archaic form of words which belonged to the old world, and which is no more relevant to the new world than goblins and fairies.

Have we not learned in our century that the great poets are mythmakers or myth - transformers, that the forms of poetry are transmutations of archaic ritual forms, and that the poet symbol is an interiorization or a revalorization of the religious symbol?

Eliade's deep interest in myths, symbols and in archaic and Indian (oriental) religions will have paramount significance, first of all, for opening up religious dimension of the NT Christianity.

I realized the meaning has changed over time, because according to the archaic definition, everyone on earth is religious.

You are a lipstick service Jew, much like the majority of the Christians in America — you are only «religious» because you refuse to part ways with the archaic notion of a creator god.

It is high time that people of all faiths should come clean and explicitly support peaceful co-existence with people of different faiths and get away from archaic, tunnel - visioned view that people of different religious orientation than theirs are to be considered their «enemies».

The emergence of the historic religions, though never fully overcoming archaic tendencies (or primitive ones either, for that matter), does mark a new degree of differentiation between the religious and the political.

Christian theology has succeeded in displacing most of these archaic ideas but has not been able to remove from our heritage those earlier stages of religious consciousness.

(Obviously, a theology of the history of religions will be obliged to take into consideration all these archaic and primitive religious experiences.

But the historian of religions aims to familiarize himself with the greatest possible number of religions, especially with archaic and primitive religions, where he has a chance to encounter certain religious institutions still in their elementary stages.

The latter, particularly, points to a religious or ritual function to these carvings, and indeed to the practice of a form of «shamanism» — that is, an archaic magical or religious belief system which sought connections between the visible and spirit worlds, and which ascribes spiritual properties to animals and natural forces.

Part of the difficulty with creating a new understanding of adoption - including the women who chose it, the families who adopt, and the children who are adopted - is combating archaic adoption practices that not only reinforce negative stereotypes, but also do an incredible disservice to what adoption can be - that is, adoption is a legitimate pregnancy option for all women faced with a pregnancy decision, regardless of whether they identify as «pro-life» or «pro-choice,» religious or not, conservative or liberal... In the face of a pregnancy decision, the women who choose adoption feel no more part of the political discussion around it then the women who choose abortion feel about the political rhetoric characterizing their decision.

The time traveling behind Spero's fascination with the archaic or Clemente's with Indian miniatures or Schnabel's recourse to the religious iconography of Spanish and Mexican Catholicism — this is absent from «The Forever Now.»

Canada's retention and application of the archaic offense of pretending to practice witchcraft is problematic, both in its purpose and the disproportionate effect it has on women and certain religious and racialized groups.