Sentences with phrase «between worship experiences»

The most significant forms of giving should, of course, occur in one's daily life between worship experiences.

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Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

Thus he pictures a future in which the maintenance of distinctions between male and female has largely given way to the cultivation of androgynous personality aided by surgical and biochemical manipulation (UP 371 - 84); in which the notion of a substantial self enduring through time (and responsible for its actions) is superceded and «one is freed to be a career of selves strung out in time» (UP 390; cf. 384 - 97); in which the worship of a single all - powerful God has given way to the experiencing of a pantheon of «momentary deities» (UP 397 - 411) 4 Morality in our sense will no longer have a place in Hall's «anarchic» world.