Sentences with phrase «as sacred places»

The court found that religious freedom under section 2 (a) does not include protection of the objects of the religion, such as sacred places.

As you wade, walk and swim through the dark underground river using only the light from your headlamp, one can begin to imagine why the Maya used caves as sacred places.

In the middle of such green and dense forest, lives over 600 tame and friendly monkeys that all the time appeal to visitor, Part from functioning as sacred places, the forest along with the monkeys comes to be fascinating tourist object that is worth visiting.

Two locations on the western slope of the hill are revered by different groups as the sacred place.

Located five miles north of Kanab, Utah, Angel Canyon, home of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and about 1,600 homeless animals, has been known for thousands of years as a sacred place to the people who lived here.

Since this time Jati is revered as a sacred place safe from the outside...

The Maya people of the Yucatan Peninsula today still regard Chichen Itza, named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, as a sacred place.

Known locally as Xibalba, Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM Cave) is one of the most popular and impressive caves in the Cayo District that was used as a sacred place by the Maya of Belize.

The ATM Cave was used as a sacred place during the Classic period (AD 250 - 909) by the ancient Maya who believed that the Gods who provided rain and agricultural fertility resided in this cave.

Lizard Island is known as Dyiigurra to the Dingaal Aboriginal people and is regarded as a sacred place.

I use the square as a sacred place to hold multiple layers of writings precious to me.

His popular rainforest paintings reference the mind's eye — with the theme of earth as a sacred place; they evoke both religious and sensuous feelings.

Le Corbusier envisaged Capitol Complex as a sacred place to match the Acropolis, where citizens could meditate on the inter-connected spiritual meanings embedded in his architecture.

Not exact matches

«This act of evil occurred as the victims and their families were in their place of sacred worship,» President Donald Trump said in a statement.

The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the preacher the symbolic head and heart of his people.

In short, dwelling in the land should be — must be — an act of imitatio dei, and, as the Hebrew prophets taught, to fail to embody that religious precept is to forfeit the right to dwell in that sacred place.

In Dear James, the catalyst is not only the teachings of the Church but its sacred places as well.

It is sorely tempting to arbitrate over this sacred interplay, to treat it in such a way as to refuse God the opportunity to make use of His special place, to place God outside of the conjugal relationship which then becomes the couple's own territory over which they alone arbitrate.

Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites and customs.

1 If it can be demonstrated that world affirmation is implicit within the way of identity, the Eastern approach need no longer place a negative value on change but can learn from the West that there is no necessary conflict between change and the divine, nor is there any need to view the dimension of the sacred as antagonistic to the phenomenon of change.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

place, at sacred times, through sacred persons as distinct from a profane, «unholy» people, and the adoration of God in spirit and in truth is not, indeed abolished, but radically relativized.

Offering itself as the ultimate basis of reality and salvation, the sacred may either arouse a defiant emptying of the heavens and a repudiation of all sacrality in favor of secularity in a death of the gods, or become the place of evasion and retreat, a refuge from life rather than a response to it.

If Rome is not, as it was called in the days of the Caesars, the caput mundi, it is nonetheless a place of sacred memory made such by the dual apostolic martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the many others who followed their example.

Places that become sacred to us or places that we jettison because they no longer afford us the opportunity to grow to to contribute or to protect our relationship's status as most impoPlaces that become sacred to us or places that we jettison because they no longer afford us the opportunity to grow to to contribute or to protect our relationship's status as most impoplaces that we jettison because they no longer afford us the opportunity to grow to to contribute or to protect our relationship's status as most important.

The report highlights cathedrals as diverse churches that are not only important sacred centres of worship but also places of valued social support and community and interfaith engagement.

Though, Islam is generally understood to be anti-incarnational the ideas of the imam in the Shia sects, the idea of the Mahdi in Mahdawism, the ideas of sainthood, poles, pirs, mujawirs and murshids, and places such as tombs of the saints and dargahs are deemed to be infused with certain amount of the sacred.

Small huts or «shrines» and sacred stones were considered as dwelling places of demons or genii.

Jesus» hearers would have understood «world» as meaning the world as a collection of particular places now made sacred, not as an abstraction.

The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.

It is perhaps odd to think of everyday life as the place to begin in searching for the sacred.

As they fall in defense of their holy place, for all the poor form of their devotion, there is this element of sublimity: they do believe that something in life is so sacred that a man would better die than have it violated.

The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the...

For us as Christians the role of Jesus the Christ makes him the epitome of the sacred, but we also have other places and people whose sacredness is derivative from his and additional sacred things which are auxiliary to him.

But there may also be other places or teachers sacred to us that are best described as auxiliary rather than derivative.

He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that life might once more return to the world.

God had never before, it declares, «come down to the world to lead the people,» but, «after a long waiting, the time at last came and God showed himself to the World, taking the body of The Foundress as the incarnation, at the sacred place of Jiba in October, 1838.

Since insufficient time has passed to assure to the books here discussed a permanent place among the sacred books of the world, such as that enjoyed by the ones that have so far been discussed, I feel it necessary to draw up a definition of a sacred book which will enable me to pick out of our modern world what may be called its sacred books.

After the pope departed the nuns wanted to place the sacred symbol inside the gate of the camp as a symbol of God's love... however, The Jewish community was in an up roar... for they felt that in this place God was not!

Lively debates are also taking place about whether dances might be used as liturgical actions, modelled upon the traditional sacred dances existing in the culture.

Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].

So even though I felt that nudge, the one I've come to recognise as the Holy Spirit announcing something new, inviting me into a place of sacred learning by stepping out of a boat right onto water, I said, «I can't» to that Voice and so I didn't do it.

If, as Barron asserts, Catholicism «never threw anything out,» then why have Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony — granted pride of place (principum locum) by the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy — been largely lost?

When this type of reasoning is applied to a sacred text, one is placed in the awkward position of either affirming the whole thing or selectively denying it on very tenuous grounds, such as one's present world view.

Here I touch some of Altizer's concerns, but I am not as anxious to recover the sacred, since I am starting with a definition of Protestantism as a movement away from the sacred place.

This identification of the Ark with the special presence of Yahweh is repeatedly shown in the narratives, until, as the most sacred palladium of the nation, it was placed in the Holy of Holies of Solomon's temple.

First of all, it implies some superficial beliefs about the place of sexuality in human experience (we might regard these as being in the antechamber of the temple of sacred sexuality proper): the belief that sexuality is a key, perhaps even the key, component of the quality of being human (in this, of course, lies the pervasive heritage of Freud); the belief that modern Western culture, and especially American culture, has unduly suppressed sexuality (this is the anti-Puritan aspect of the proposition), and, that, as a result, not only are we sexually frustrated (and that frustration carries all sorts of physical and psychological pathologies in its wake), but our entire relation to our own bodies as well as the bodies of others has become distorted.

Pope Pius XII declared that «the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions... take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter --[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36)»

And even when one comes into sacred places where folk in organized philanthropy, social service or the church are supposedly working unselfishly for the good of men, jealousy is as present as it was on that last night when the Master with his disciples ate the memorials of his sacrifice and «there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.»

When some apply the sacred texts in a literal manner, attacks such as these take place.