Sentences with phrase «between profane»

Not shying away from articulations between the profane and the sacred Lawson's photography explore the interior spaces of matters of the heart - family, desire, mothering and sexuality.

Not shying away from articulations between the profane and the sacred Lawson's photography explore the interior spaces of matters of the heart — family, desire, mothering and sexuality.

Blurring the line between profane and beautiful, the shadows cast by ornamental icons filled the small enclave it was hung in, leaving a lasting impression on the viewer.

Those early years sent Scorsese on a journey, one he's remained on for much of his life: an exploration of the tension between the profane and the sacred as they intersect in humanity.

But in a way, the choice to depart from the novel and input an indefinite final image — one that signals ambiguity in the struggle between the profane and the sacred — serves as metaphor for Scorsese's own faith.

The struggle between profane and sacred has never merely been realistic for Scorsese.

The conflict between them, then, far from involving a tension between the profane and the holy, is a conflict within the divine itself, whose only possible resolution is the death — the sacrifice — of the protagonist.

Not exact matches

With a warning not to give what is precious to pigs and dogs (a prohibition), Jesus instructs His followers not to be overly permissive, but to exercise discernment between what is holy and what is profane.

Existence in faith involves a continual crisis between the sacred and the profane.

Today theology is faced with the overwhelming task of establishing a dialectical synthesis between a radically profane «subjectivity» (Existenz) and an authentically biblical mode of faith.

Is a form of faith possible that will effect a dialectical union between time and eternity, or the sacred and the profane?

For the child is one who exists in that realm which is prior to the distinction between sacred and profane, sublime and ordinary, significant and trivial.

But if the distinction between sacred and profane is the first principle of religion, there is also a second principle.

Moreover, if a Zennist were to persist in his denial and to assert that Nirvana is Samsara and Samsara is Nirvana — or that there is no difference whatsoever between the sacred and the profane — we would be forced to respond that his language is only meaningful in the context of the complete dissolution of the profane consciousness.

Christianity has named this rupture the «Fall,» and no religion has so profoundly emphasized the gulf between the sacred and the profane as Christianity.

Yet a primordial Beginning and a sacred «Center» are meaningful only insofar as a chasm lies between the sacred and the profane.

Seen in this perspective, religion itself can only appear or arise in conjunction with a rupture between the sacred and the profane, a rupture testifying to the alienation of immediate existence from a sacred or transcendent ground.

Of course, the higher expressions of mysticism have always known a transcendence of images, but they transcend imagery by abolishing the profane consciousness, or by dissolving all that history lying between the present and the Beginning.

At first glance it would seem that those higher expressions of religion which proclaim the triumphant realization of the Kingdom of God, or the sole reality of Brahman - Atman, or the blissful totality of grace or Nirvana, do not fall under such a conception of religion since they transcend a tension or opposition between the sacred and the profane.

Images of paradise invariably testify to a longing or a nostalgia for an original paradise, i.e., for participation in an original cosmic Totality, a Totality present in a primordial time prior to the advent of the rupture between the sacred and the profane, a time when suffering, death, and alienation had not yet come into existence.

But whether by way of myth and ritual, or through interior meditation or prophetic faith, religion seeks to annul all opposition between the sacred and the profane, thereby seeking a renewal of paradise in the present moment.

A pagan or religious «recollection» must, it is true, dissolve the opposition between the sacred and the profane, but recollection can not move forward to eternity.

Similar sentiments are heard today from «pastoral planners» who take their cues from Protestant megachurches in which creating a feeling of «ownership» on the part of the congregation, often by blurring the border between sacred and profane, is very much part of the marketing - and - retention strategy.

Priests were specialists in sanctity, experts in measuring the holy and profane, distinguishing between the clean and unclean.

A committed Christian might well say the same, but, in the West, secular society has made a distinction between the sacred and the profane.

Jung has seen that psychologically this means that an overemphasis on either side of a polarity such as conscious - unconscious, or sacred - profane, will lead not to a dialectical coincidentia oppositorum but to a reinforcement or enantiodromia of the (untransfigured) other pole, that is, to an inundation or regression.17 It will be helpful to keep these Jungian motifs in mind as we explore the somewhat surprising parallels between Jung's notion of «individuation» and Altizer's idea of an ongoing kenotic incarnation.

All societies, even the religious ones of the high Middle Ages or of Calvin's Geneva or of the Puritan pilgrims, distinguish between sacred and profane.

Instead of there being a sharp distinction between «this world» and some «other world» — between the natural and supernatural — modern religion tends to mix the sacred with the profane.

This can only mean that distinctions between what is holy [set apart for God] and what is profane [set apart from God] were set at naught.

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»?)

But the perusal of the total plot does not support a distinction between sacred and profane events.

«Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.»

Jesus will take them once again to the Mount of Olives, that threshold between desert and city, sacred and profane, where the cloud of Divine Presence will absorb the risen Lord and leave his friends bereft once more.

The border between the sacred and profane was deliberately made uncertain and porous.

It demarcated a boundary between the sacred and the profane and thereby created a sheltered place in which the encounter between human beings and the divine (which is the mystery of being in its most eminent and compelling splendor) could occur.

What was needed in the debates over music during the 1950s and 1960s was a broader theological vision that could help the Cooke's and Lewis's of the world understand the continuity between the sacred and the profane in terms of the shaping and orientation of human desire.

For Burke, the movement between the sacred and the profane was simply a transition from one form of ecstasy to another.

Finally, there is a contrast appearing in the type of tension that the two thinkers posit between the poles of within and without, sacred and profane.

The jury listened to some four dozen secretly recorded telephone conversations, many between the senator and his son, which contained angry rants by Adam Skelos about his father's political rivals — including a profane derision of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo — and criticism of Adam Skelos's business associates.

Unfortunately, that humor comes in the form of profane, self - referential epithets typically traded between 15 - year - olds while playing video games online, which means if you've actually used bad language in a public setting or are older than 15, the mileage may vary on Wade Wilson's particular brand of irreverence.

In between a slew of pranks, insults and profane dialogue, the Super Troopers unearth a couple of major drug stashes and set out to track down their source.

The film loses its grip on pacing (and perhaps the balance between the lush and the profane) in a somewhat lurching final stretch, but that doesn't detract from the immaculately crafted whole.

Beyond the ickiness of the relationship between an infamously predatory director (John Malkovich) entering into a relationship with the 17 - year - old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) of Louis» character, the juxtaposition of a black - and - white,»40s - screwball comedy setting with profane, raunchy humor just never works.

Lacking the usual filter between his brain and his mouth, Montana lets fly with stream - of - consciousness invective and profane one - liners that might seem de rigueur in an era where every other screen thug takes charm lessons from Quentin Tarantino, but were derided as scandalous by establishment critics on the film's release.

This is just a string of ever - escalating insults and debauchery, screenwriters and directors Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Horrible Bosses 2) doing an absolutely horrific job of achieving anything approaching balance between the tender and the profane.

After this short prologue, in which nothing much happens — except the establishment of a viscerally real - feeling bond between these two profane, macho, half - cautious, halfcavalier warriors — the situation dramatically changes for the worse.

There is almost no difference in the book between the sacred and the profane.

Instead, he returned time and again to certain underlying themes — the shapes lurking underneath the carpet, as it were — including repressed memories, disjunctions between selfhood and social structures as well as fault lines between the sacred and the profane.

Known for paintings of women, Lisa Yuskavage's images occupy the space between high and low; the sacred and the profane.

Where the literary proposals of the original mirrors for princes contemplate the divisions between self and other, male and female, sacred and profane, Slavs and Tatars» turn to everyday ritual casts governance as self - governance, a universe of ambiguities, or in their own words: «the heart and art of politics.»