Sentences with phrase «church as symbols»

Both are used in the design of the new church as symbols of unity.

Ranging from body parts to domestic objects, milagros are often hung in churches as symbols of things in life requiring prayer, healing and protection.

Not exact matches

Kirk maintains they are necessarily male (and Jewish) because they are «a proleptic [anticipatory] symbol of the coming kingdom», a divine reconstruction of the twelve tribes of Israel, founded on the twelve sons of Jacob; although he adds this does not preclude «the possibility that Jesus has other ends in mind... a church with Peter at its head and the twelve apostles as the foundation stones of its order and authority» (p. 43).

«The defamation of religion, its symbols and teachings is incompatible with Christian values, the teaching of Jesus Christ and the apostles as is demonstrated in the Bible,» the statement continued, «so those who participate in such a production, display or promotion of such a films should be held fully accountable for operating outside of Christian principles and church laws.»

Nova Huta was designed by the Warsaw Government as «A city without God» — an industrial and residential area without religious symbols and without a Church.

The definition of worship as «the celebration of life» was coined by Chicago's UU minister Von Ogden Vogt (who also guided the construction of a Gothic UU church freighted with symbolism but devoid of any traditional Christian symbols beyond the cruciform floor plan!).

Torture and public trials resulted in burnings at the stake of poor and working - class women viewed as symbols of rebellion against the ruling church.

Thus, cosmic symbols of folkloric themes such as Water, Tree, Vine, the plough and the axe, the ship, chariot etc which have been already assimilated by Judaism are passed on to the Church, which gave them sacramental meaning.

Novelist Mary Gordon, a perceptive interpreter of Catholic women's experience, affirms that Mary's submissive obedience has become «a stick to beat smart girls» («Coming to Terms with Mary,» Commonweal, January 15, 1982) Warner painfully recalls her own adolescent realization that the symbol of Mary as a model of chastity actually denigrates women and humanity, an understanding that transformed her perception of the church.

Early Christian art seems to have preferred symbols: Noah's boat as the church sailing through stormy political seas, the Good Shepherd and his lamb, the IKTHUS fish.

In a burst of religiopatriotic zeal in 1924, Father Cantú Corro tried to put these two characters together and extol them as joint symbols of the Mexican spirit: the true church and the true nation.

the very fact that this beam was blessed, kept at a church, and lobbied for inclusion as a religious symbol means that it IS REPRESENTING ONE SINGLE RELIGION.

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However, to point to the Crusades as a symbol of a fanatical, power - hungry, bloodthirsty Church is to misinterpret history.

This was just the kind of religious life portrayed in the New Testament, not only as a model and pattern, but as a challenge and inspiration The New Testament was thus the abiding source of power which enabled man to realize the true life of religion, and Christ was the eternal symbol for the cultus of the Christian Church.

Perhaps the crusade against the liquor traffic was indebted for some of its force to the uneasy conscience of a church which was able to treat this particular phase of the «world» as the symbol and representative of all worldliness.

But at my church we often do something similar to this — washing other people's feet as a symbol of our desire to serve.

The triad «texts, symbols and practices» points to the fact that the life of a church does not only consist in the reading and interpretation of texts but also of symbols and customs, especially as they are used in worship.

I, for one, take such intimations seriously as evidence of profound moral or religious sensibilities and wonder whether the church's traditional language of theology and religious symbols thwarts not just apologetics but also the moral, spiritual and intellectual nourishment of those uncomfortable with religious institutions.

An ecumenical hermeneutics is meant to serve the «specific task of focusing on how texts, symbols and practices in the various churches may be interpreted, communicated and mutually received as the churches engage in dialogue.

James Gustafson, Treasure in Earthen Vessels: The Church as a Human Community (New York: Harper & Row, 1961), developed the concept of the church as a community of language, although he does not press the implication of language beyond its Christian symbols; nor does he argue that the community employing this language is either essentially or primarily the local cChurch as a Human Community (New York: Harper & Row, 1961), developed the concept of the church as a community of language, although he does not press the implication of language beyond its Christian symbols; nor does he argue that the community employing this language is either essentially or primarily the local cchurch as a community of language, although he does not press the implication of language beyond its Christian symbols; nor does he argue that the community employing this language is either essentially or primarily the local churchchurch.

I have gone so far as to get a tattoo on my hand that is a «gangsforgod» symbol... There is a concept I believe in — for those that can not find a church they can feel alright with, they should form their own God Gang.

We move out of the church alone as well, carrying with us our own fragments of warmth and insight as we seek to make connections between the great symbols of the faith and the stuff of everyday life.

The pulpit in the Protestant church stands as a symbol of God's Word.

If we assume that the symbol of the holy is not a particular beauty, but beauty of any sort, then it is not surprising that we can love equally places as diverse as Chartres and Vierzehnheiligen, the Old Ship Meeting House and Christ Lutheran Church.

Very early in the history of the Church the four living creatures of the Revelation (4:7) were used as the symbols of the Gospels.

Yet the symbol of the Church as the body of Christ implies more than our mutual dependence and responsibilities, vital as these are.

If the only version of God some people know is the one heard in Sunday School, it may come as a surprise for them to realise that viewing God as a symbol is possible within the church context.

Christian moral thinking has accepted this and has given marriage a special blessing, surrounding it with the aura of divine approval even if it has not always realistically grasped the fact that marriage is not inevitably an ideal state and that to insist on its continuance when love is absent is to condone what in effect is legalized rape and hence hardly an appropriate symbol for the Christian idea of marriage as representing «the mystical union of Christ and his Church.»

First, the early church was responsible for summarizing the general doctrines of the faith in creedal form such as the rule of faith, the later Old Roman Symbol, and finally the Apostles» Creed.

Instead they present Christianity as one symbol system among others within which the church calls us to live and think

Having symbols of our faith and heritage removed from government property pales in comparison to such persecution, yet the Church fights them with as much piss and vinegar as Jesus turning over the moneychanger's tables in the temple!

There are no Christ figures in his works (except perhaps George Caldwell in The Centaur) or other sacred symbols; and when the Christian church is portrayed, it usually comes off as an archaic, lifeless institution, run by inept, bungling, morally and spiritually bankrupt clergy.

The revelation of God in the black church and in the lives and experience of black Christians has laid an obligation on black people: their task is to stand everywhere in the world as a Christian symbol of God's opposition to oppression.

But they remind us of the fact that the death of Christ was not only the vivid and poignant focus of the church's memory of Jesus (as death is always likely to be in our memory of another), but also that it became almost at once the symbol of what was realized to be the crucial meaning of the event.

As much, perhaps, as any other church - state question, the issue of religious symbols on public property has generated increasing concern and debate within the American Jewish community in recent yearAs much, perhaps, as any other church - state question, the issue of religious symbols on public property has generated increasing concern and debate within the American Jewish community in recent yearas any other church - state question, the issue of religious symbols on public property has generated increasing concern and debate within the American Jewish community in recent years.

Implicit in the doctrine of church - state separation that the Supreme Court enforced in this case is the assumption that religious symbols such as the yarmulke, while appropriate for private religious devotion in home or synagogue, have no legitimate place in any public institution.

Hence, his deep concern for burying once and for all both God and church in order to align his loyalties fully with Christ — the symbol for the sacred at work in human history — as he is becoming present «in every human hand and face.»

But standing in that environment where fire's destructive power is widely known is a church seeking to claim even flames as a symbol of redemption.

In the early days of the Christian church, Christians used the letter X as a secret symbol to indicate their membership in the church to others.

Gun owners generally attend church more often and report greater levels of religiosity, although those who find empowerment in the symbol of the gun are low on religious participation, such as worship attendance.

This Fourvière hill has been dubbed «the hill that prays» as it is the location of a church where the priests would stay and became the symbol of the power of the Catholic Cchurch where the priests would stay and became the symbol of the power of the Catholic ChurchChurch.

There's also a bit of censorship in the American versions — in addition to altering the religious symbols in the church, the defeated party members follow you around as ghosts.

Few historians would disagree that Gothic in the 18th century (as in the 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries) could carry political or religious implications, not least as a symbol of the frequently contested identity of the constitution and of the Church.

«Inspired by religious relics historically hung from church ceilings, Messager employs these symbols as a commentary on blurred gender binaries and the widespread objectification of the physical form,» according to the show's announcement.

It would be a completely different challenge if a graduation ceremony were held on church property in an unadorned building such as an auditorium with no religious symbols or messages.

Originally used as decorative wall coverings in churches, palaces and castles, tapestries usually depicted scenes from the Bible, mythological images and hunting, and were often hung behind a throne as a symbol of authority.