Sentences with phrase «becoming profane»

An authentically kenotic movement of «incarnation» must be a continual process of Spirit becoming flesh, of Eternity becoming time, or of the sacred becoming profane.

For him, as for some of the Essenes, Jerusalem had become a profane city.

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That is, what we can observe today (states and their populations become more and more profane or secular), and moreover it is predicted in the book of Revelation of the Bible that finally the whole world will worship the Arch-Blasphemer (the head of the Beast) or the Wicked.

(Isaiah 6:1 - 3) Such a God was not lightly to be approached; an inviolability not to be profaned lay deep in Isaiah's thought of the Eternal; but reverence had taken the place of dread as the corollary of holiness, majesty had displaced the former dangerousness of the deity, and the response demanded from man by the holiness of the Most High had become thoroughly ethical.

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

The world, robbed of the haunting presence of the indwelling deity, becomes irreligious and profane.

this last season, i was working hard labor 75 hrs a week and it really hindered my spiritual concerns to where i became irritable, profane, obscene, and way off.

A sacred that annuls or transcends the reality of the profane can never become incarnate in a fallen form, and thus it could never affect or transform the given or immediate reality of a fallen world.

By a kenotic negation of its primordial reality, the sacred becomes incarnate in the profane.

The profane reality ceases to move or disappears, thereby becoming identical with the sacred, and the sacred now ceases to exist in opposition to the profane.

Now the dualistic sin of the Christian church, its original heresy, is that of resurrecting Jesus into the heavens with God in glory and the designation of the church as Christ's mystical body on earth.15 In actuality this doctrinal pronouncement represents a reversal of God's kenotic movement into humanity in Christ's flesh and in his death, for contrary to the spirit of kenotic incarnation, the church has become ever more sacredly apart from the profane, and the resurrected Savior ever more transcendent of the world.

However, the more we become secular (profane, godless), the more we lose God's protection.

That which was originally transcendent is now becoming immanent; two formerly separate realms of reality are now becoming one: the sacred is now in the midst of the profane.

Prior to this period of history, the traditional words of blessing before a meal were «Blessed be thou, O Lord God, King of the Universe»; in this era the focus shifted ever so subtly and the food itself became the object of blessing — «Bless, O Lord, this food» — for food was considered mundane or profane, and only when touched by the holy words of a Christian could it be brought into the realm of the sacred.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

Through Blake we can sense the theological significance of a poetic reversal of our mythical traditions, and become open to the possibility that the uniquely modern metamorphosis of the sacred into the profane is the culmination of a redemptive and kenotic movement of the Godhead.

Yet it is Nietzsche's vision of Eternal Recurrence, a vision also employing but inverting the sacred language of the mystics, which most clearly illuminates the thinking and experience of a history which is becoming totally profane.

But the sacred «center» is an interior depth or a transcendent beyond which reveals itself to be all in all as a consequence of an absolute negation or reversal of the profane, whereas Zarathustra's «center» lies at the very heart of a profane or immanent existence, and it becomes manifest as being everywhere only as the consequence of an absolute negation or reversal of the sacred.

Similarly, the framework of nature and history is profane, and it is only in the light of the word of proclamation that nature and history become for the believer, contrary to all appearance, the field of the divine activity.

With this separation the world becomes merely a backdrop to God's personal encounter with individuals as though the entire world is profane, no longer part of God's creation.

After the death of Jesus, the process of incarnational evolution took a new turn into the «Third Age of the Spirit,» resulting in the disassociation of the sacred from one profane personality and its subsequent movement toward total identification with the world by becoming coextensive with humanity.

Exploring sex, sensuality, and spirituality could become new fascinations for some Libras, as you fearlessly own your desires, from the sacred to the profane.

There is no other reason for your reviews to have become as pointless and profane as they have become over the years.

It's a blunt indictment of a popular U.S. - based company, but nevertheless a long ways away from the manic, radically profane cynicism that Wilder deployed in One, Two, Three, wherein Coca - Cola has more or less become America.

So in the beginning her voice is very child - like, and as she approaches adulthood it becomes more profane.

Plakidas explores the bi-polarities of the profane and the sacred; of the circus tent and the church, with self portraits and a number of additional props such as a circus wagon and flying geese, The artists writes: «The devotional object becomes the exhibitionist subject and the site of worship becomes the enclosed space of a child's fantasy».

The mixture of the sacred (Virgin Mary) and the profane (excrement and pornography) became a cause of controversy when the Sensation exhibition moved to New York in 1999.

In mid-2009, the respondent began his bar admission course (CPLED), but became involved in several incidents of rudeness and use of profane language with CPLED staff.