Sentences with phrase «as oriental»

Three public sector general insurers such as The Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd, United India Insurance -LSB-...]

Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957) Highly - skilled craftsman, influenced by African art as well as Oriental art, searching for pure form.

A Pollock biographer wrote:»... [Tobey's] dense web of white strokes, as elegant as Oriental calligraphy, impressed Jackson so much that in a letter to Louis Bunce he described Tobey, a West Coast artist, as an «exception'to the rule that New York was «the only real place in America where painting (in the real sense) can come thru.»

It is often referred to as the Oriental Hawaii of China because of its fine white sand beaches and beautiful blue water.

Members of some cat breeds are predisposed to mediastinal lymphosarcoma, such as the Oriental and Siamese breeds.

Hotel and their amenities have improved dramatically over the years — some, such as the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok and the Chelsea Hotel in New York have even become notorious for their high - class service and the famous people who have stayed there.

MAC Lady Danger is described as an oriental floral with a cherry note.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), also commonly referred to as Oriental Medicine, is a comprehensive and ancient medical system developed over many centuries in China and regularly employed there as part of the standard medical system.

And in 2011, by now known as the Oriental Nicety, she was sold for $ 16 million to an Indian demolition company, Priya Blue Industries.

Chrysomya megacephala, a blowfly known as the oriental latrine fly, is among the first and most abundant species of invertebrates arriving at mammal carcasses in tropical forests of peninsular Malaysia.

I initially used a little of the original coleslaw for tomorrows lunch but then just made the whole bottle as oriental dressing.

Though race is sometimes correctly designated by basic biological types as Caucasian, Mongolian, or Negroid, in practice it is more often indicated by color, as black, white, red, yellow, or brown; or by nationality, as Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Mexican; or by geographical origin, as Oriental, Asiatic, European, African; or by a combination of ethnic, national, and geographical factors, as Nordic, Teutonic, Slavic, Latin American, French Canadian.

For even if we hesitate to conceive of Jesus the eschatological prophet, the proclaimer of the will of God and repentance, as an Oriental sage, and if we do not accept such proverbs as characteristic of his message, yet the incorporation of such sayings into the message is an indication of how Jesus» belief in God should be understood.

Japanese imperial rule (beginning in 1910) and the burdens of World War II disturbed these efforts, but when China «fell» to the communists in 1949, many groups, such as the Oriental Missionary Society, pivoted towards Korea.

Further, and perhaps ironically, Altizer specifically rejects Buddhism as inadequate because, in its quality as an Oriental mysticism, it seeks regressively to return to a transcendent primordial Unity for salvation.2

The subject of his continuing studies was usually either a branch of theology or something that theology had given rise to, such as Oriental languages or history.

These cats probably won't jump on top of the cabinets or race around the house as much as the Orientals do.

Not exact matches

Covering an area equivalent to more than 200 football pitches, the 400 - acre Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis boasts the world's biggest movie studio and has been touted as China's answer to Hollywood.

christianity is only most decieved by this as jewish and islam even many oriental religions are understanding true nature of god holy spirit BUT NOT CHRISTIANS!!!

Jesuits hid Jews in the houses and schools of the society throughout occupied Europe, and Lapomarda does a real service in documenting many such efforts, as in the fascinating story of the forty - three Jews concealed by Jesuits in Rome at the Oriental Institute and in the Gregorian University.

As it turns out, Jesus uses the metaphor of Father because in Oriental thought of that day the first born son was thought to inherit all, including character traits, from his father.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

And to totally understand that, we need to know that Sons of God is not gender specific, but that in the Oriental thought of the day, the first born son was thought to be a clone of his father... thats why Jesus referred to God as father.All of mankind has the ability to be the Sons of God, if they allow the Spirit of God to renew their minds and to nullify the race consciousness that makes us sons of man.

Christianity, instead of being at bottom identical with Oriental religion, is juxtaposed as its opposite.

In Oriental Mysticism, Altizer describes faith as the «will to nothingness pronounced holy,» 33 and in «Theology and the Death of God,» he states that «eschatological faith is directed against the deepest reality of what we know as history and the cosmos.

I think the article has one detail confused: the Coptic Orthodox Church is not, in fact, part of what is typically referred to as the «Eastern Orthodox» tradition, but part of the «Oriental Orthodox» tradition, which split off several centuries before the Eastern Orthodox / Roman Catholic split, at the time of the Council of Chalcedon.

The father runs out to welcome the son, «a most unusual and undignified procedure for an aged oriental» (Jeremias), freely forgives him, treats him as an honoured guest and restores him to a position of dignity and authority in his household.

Those who held that there was only one nature in Christ, the Monophysites, were never reconciled to the Chalcedonian position, and the Oriental churches, such as the Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian and Armenian Orthodox still reject the formula.

Interest in oriental religion goes back in America to the early 19th century, as we have seen, but never before have significant numbers of people gone beyond reading books to become adepts and engage in arduous practice.

The immediate awareness of the Holy, the mysterium tremendum, ecstatic participation in the Sacred: this is language he can understand and with which he can identify, as is evidenced by his first book, Oriental Mysticism and Biblical Eschatology.

If we were to identify a backward movement to a primordial and quiescent Totality as the ground of Oriental mysticism, then we must acknowledge that a Christian doctrine of God as an eternal and impassive Being shares this fundamental ground with Oriental mysticism.

Some even understand and interpret New Testament Christianity as a triumph achieved over the eastern / oriental religions.

Karl Jaspers has labeled as escapism a great deal of the current interest in Oriental religion and philosophy, especially on the part of young people.

Quite rightly, Eliade considers in his second volume of A History of Religious Ideas, Vedas, Upanishads, Yoga, Buddhism, Jainism, Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita, Greco - Oriental Mysteries, Iranian religious synthesis as forerunners of Christianity.

Again, a prejudiced society which expects American Indians to be lazy and dishonest, Mexicans or Puerto Ricans to be vicious and delinquent, and Orientals to be subversive — in every case as a natural racial trait — is likely to adopt attitudes and policies toward these people which will lead them to some extent to respond accordingly.

However, many scholars regard Oriental religions as detrimental to Christianity and describe them in pejorative sense as being syncretistic, polytheistic and idol worshipping.

The firm establishment of Augustus as the emperor brought peace and prosperity and the fashionable Roman world began to demand oriental luxuries, on a scale unknown before, which increased the trade.

The difference between Greek pessimism and the oriental and modern variety is that the Greeks had not made the discovery that the pathetic mood may be idealized, and figure as a higher form of sensibility.

Recently Rustom Bharucha's The Question of Faith (published as no: 3 of the Tracts for the Times by Oriental Longman 1993) raises the question of the relation of Indian Secularism to religion as Faith.

Some parts are valuable as sources for oriental history, others for social conditions under the Roman Empire.

Maintaining that no people would have invented for themselves so «disgraceful» a past as that of being slaves in a foreign land, he wrote that «of all Oriental chronicles, it is only the Biblical annals that deserve the name of history.»

They also see the challenge of democratic inclusivity in China as the need to address the problem of Han chauvinism (which they term «Oriental orientalism») that lauds Han superiority over the national minorities.

Chalcedonian Christians, including Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestants, dismissed Orientals as «monophysites.»

A peculiar phenomenon are the sects connected with Eastern (Oriental) religions, such as the Bahai, Vedanta, Theosophy, and others.

Like her sister Oriental Orthodox Churches, including the Coptic and Syriac churches, the Armenian Church holds instead that Christ has one combined human - divine nature, in which the human and divine nonetheless remain distinct, a position known as miaphysitism.

But even more pernicious was the influence of the harem — that breeding - ground of seditions and knavery, as well as the source of the monarch's personal demoralization, in every oriental court through history — which was firmly established by David and much enlarged by Solomon.

One can almost see the stately procession of those oriental women, dignified as queens, in the peace of the oriental evening coming down the slope from the little city, each with her graceful water - jar on her shoulder, while around the tree - sheltered well lie the ten great hulking beasts still saddled with their baggage and gaudy with the beads and trinkets that camel - drivers have always loved.

John Gavin SJ, a faculty member of the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Oriental Institute, brings out the need to harmonise our vision Christ as the ahistorical Lord of the cosmos and as the historically crucified one.

And on the other hand Christian faith (I stress the word Christian, as opposed to those «oriental» faiths for which spiritual ascension often expressly signifies the negation or condemnation of the phenomenal world), by the very fact that it is rooted in the idea of Incarnation, has always based a large part of its tenets on the tangible values of the World and of Matter.

In recent years the Western churches have been greatly influenced by the Orthodox and Oriental churches; they have felt the appeal of many Eastern rituals: the strong emphasis on the paschal mystery; the attention to the role of the Holy Spirit in the eucharistic rite; the value of commemorating such events as the baptism of the Lord; and the unity of Christian initiation.