Sentences with phrase «as sanctified»

The growing recognition of the family as a sanctified entity even within divorce has inspired new and creative living arrangements, uniquely tailored to the psychological and financial needs of the large number of divorced families with children.

THRESHELD explored the intimacy of routine, home as a constructed space, and ritual as a sanctified mundane.

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After a short introduction there are five chapters: 1) Baptism as Cleansing from Sin and Sickness; 2) Incorporation into the Community; 3) Baptism as Sanctifying and Illuminative; 4) Baptism as Dying and Rising; 5) Baptism as the Beginning of the New Creation.

St. Thomas Aquinas defines a sacrament as: «The sign of a sacred thing in so far as it sanctifies people» — «Signum rei sacrae in quantum est sanctificans homines» (ST.III, q. 60, a. 2).

Bonhoeffer interprets Jesus as sanctifying marriage along with its indissolubility.

Yet if the words and events of the Gospel narratives are to have more than a historical meaning, subject to the rules of historical criticism, they also must be read as sanctifying symbols that religiously address today's believer.

The crux of the struggle, therefore, between the Hebrew invaders and the Amorites was indeed between their gods, but between their gods as sanctifying two deeply antagonistic economic and social systems.

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Evangelical Catholicism celebrates the seven sacraments as divinely given means of sanctifying life.

And on the eve of his death, He sanctified a cup of wine as «the new covenant in my blood» (Luke 22:14 - 23).

(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»

His ontological understanding of the priest as the one standing in for Christ who teaches, protects, leads and sanctifies led him to question many of the initiatives in the 1980s which sought to extend to the laity tasks traditionally the function of the priest.

Further, while some contend that the soul sanctifies biology, thus delineating the uniqueness of human life, the simple presence of the soul fails to engender life as the Christian faith understands it.

It is we who are sanctified, made fit for divine service, by the call of Christ to faith and obedience, just as the fishermen were given roles in God's great drama of salvation.

In a collection of essays entitled The Sanctified Church, Zora Neale Hurston described the traditions of the African American holiness and Pentecostal churches as a «revitalizing element» in black music and religion.

The Christian must tear away this hypocritical, idealistic mask and at the same time must condemn the idealism that interprets violence as purificatory and sanctifying.

While it is true that the biblical view of creation sanctifies time and nature as created by God — and therefore good — it does not follow that the creation accounts as such are to be understood chronologically or as natural history.

Ephesians 5:25 - 27 ESV — Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

Circumcision emphasizes, even as it also restricts and transcends, the natural and the generative, sanctifying them in the process: Under God's command, men willingly produce in their living and generational flesh the mark of their longing for God, of their desire for His benevolence and care.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

There has, however, often been a tendency in the church to sanctify a particular phrase or title and to use that as a touchstone of orthodoxy.

It relates to Mary's birth as immaculate, making her free from original sin and thus sanctified to be the mother of Jesus.

He is faithful to sanctify us as we progress in our faith from glory to glory.

Eliade explains Cosmic Christianity of the rural population as being dominated by «nostalgia for a Nature sanctified by the presence of Jesus».

Though we often think of the word «sanctified» as a reference to the «second stage» of salvation, so that after a person is justified, they then become sanctified, we must remember that the most basic meaning of the word «sanctified» is «to set apart.»

They know instead that true pastoral care helps to unify our suffering with that of the Suffering Servant, who redeems us, and sanctifies us, and strengthens us to suffer with dignity in truth, as Christ himself suffered silently, conquering death upon the cross.

A central feature of this task is to portray the «worldview» of the previous point as a «story» rooted in the creative, liberating, sanctifying love of God.

(NOTE: English versions translate the Greek hagios and its variances as; holy, holiness, sanctify, sanctification, hallowed, sanctuary, saints, sacred.

Most important, when Jesus prays, «Hallowed be thy name,» he is asking the God of Israel to sanctify his own name, as he promises to do in the Scriptures.

Theologians have long recognized this and have sanctified marriage as a social institution whose rules sometimes need to take precedence over individual needs.

As Seerveld points out, «Generation after generation of Christian scholars kept reading past the obvious sense of what was before them and spent their sanctified ingenuity ascertaining the hidden «spiritual» meaning of the words, so as to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystical trutAs Seerveld points out, «Generation after generation of Christian scholars kept reading past the obvious sense of what was before them and spent their sanctified ingenuity ascertaining the hidden «spiritual» meaning of the words, so as to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystical trutas to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystical truth.

Martin Buber had taught them to die as Jews had always died — sanctifying the Name.

The Sabbath is meant as a time of rest from the world — a period of non-work and delight in which one's «useless» activity both fosters a recognition of the divine and sanctifies and refreshes ongoing life.

We walk as human and even as believers who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit we are people with a continuing sin nature who are positionally sanctified and otherwise in process as to experiencial sanctification.

The French Revolution sanctified mob violence and ritualized public executions as noble expressions of liberty.

How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?For we know him who said, «It is mine to avenge; I will repay,» [fn] and again, «The Lord will judge his people.»

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.

Redeemed by His blood, sanctified by His Words, and empowered by the Holy Spirit, we can, as ourselves, as well as the body of Christ do the job.

All time is always sanctified: there is no such thing as «ordinary time».

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

2) Bringing about Christ as heavenly high priest in order to sanctify the believer by announcing God's name of Father in the context of the Christian todi, i.e., the Eucharist.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

Human society as well as the individual can know the sanctifying power of grace.

This second connotation, a qualification of sanctifying grace, Niebuhr said, is also supported by the thought of St. Paul when his thought is considered as a whole.

The solemnity of testimony is eventually enhanced and sanctified by a special ritual of swearing or of promising which qualifies as testimony the declaration of the witness.

In such a world Christ can not sanctify the Spirit without (as the Greek Fathers intuitively perceived) uplifting and saving the totality of Matter.

Verses of the issue; Al - Baqara sura 02: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Remember We made the House a place of assembly for men and a place of safety; and take ye the station of Abraham as a place of prayer; and We covenanted with Abraham and Isma`il that they should sanctify My House for those who compass it round or use it as a retreat or bow, or prostrate themselves (therein in prayer).

So long as we cling to Christ, we will be sanctified in and through Him.

That glorious treasure which was just as old as faith in Abraham's heart, many, many years older than Isaac, the fruit of Abraham's life, sanctified by prayers, matured in conflict — the blessing upon Abraham's lips, this fruit was now to be plucked prematurely and remain without significance.

Transient emotions every man surely has, but if as a consequence of such emotions one would do the terrible thing which love has sanctified as an immortal exploit, then all is lost, including the exploit and the bewildered doer of it.