Sentences with phrase «concept of worship»

The concept of worship, in particular, has suffered from this.

What concept of worship in relation to preaching exists in the minds of the preacher and of the congregation?

The traditional concept of worship has been that worship is glorifying God.

the concept of worshiping is a slave driven practice.

The second problem one encounters in turning to Reformation concepts of worship is that in many cases the Reformers took medieval beliefs to their full and logical conclusion.

She works with themes of ancient myths and interpretative dance, channeling concepts of worship, leadership, identity and history.

Not exact matches

Both the concept of testing someone's * faith * by causing them heartache and misery and the idea of worshipping such a deity is sick, delusional and horrific.

The concept of god with some tribes in Australia and the Americas differed yet the majority had worship outside of the known physical man which was the prime purpose of God as written by the major religions.

The major religions we see in the world today have evolved over hundreds or thousands of years, but they most follow the pattern I described, so for the most part they all involve some form of worship, the concepts of rewards, punishments, and obedience, and so on.

To me it is a sickening abomination of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into false religious idols which they expect people to worship mindlessly.

We may not worship the same gods, and we may have different concepts of what deity is, but as a community we don't invalidate someone else's religious experience.

And then there was a different form of poverty: the «spiritual poverty of our time»; that poverty is most evident in wealthier societies and manifests itself in what Benedict XVI often called the «dictatorship of relativism»» the worship of the false god of me, myself, and I, imposed by state power, often in the name of a misguided and coercive concept of tolerance.

Hartshorne is able to unite thought and experience for the believer because he has largely succeeded in developing a concept of God that is internally coherent and externally adequate to religious faith in God as the proper object of worship.

What Neville does not seem to recognize sufficiently is that theistic faith demands an understanding of God who is the object of its faith and worship (for the believer can not relate himself to what is unknown to him) and, furthermore, that it generally demands a coherent concept of God who is not only the ontologically, valuatively, and rationally other but also an individual reality who instantiates these qualities in a personal mode of being.

Stunning, really, how the whole concept of atheism totally collapsed because you somehow decided we worship «goddaesses.»

Ecological critics have nostalgically lamented the decline of «nature worship» and have spoken wistfully of the need to import «Eastern» concepts of pantheism or quietist respect for the «equality of all life.»

In recent years COCU conducted experiments in joint mission and worship among local congregations — experiments which made clear the value and possibility of such a concept of congregational mission and identity.

To understand the Bible as a human product rather than as a divine product makes all the difference in how Christians understand worship, their relationship to God, their concept of mission and evangelism, and their attitude to people of other faiths.

Thevaratampuran, meaning god whom high castes worship (literally meaning master's god) figured in the Pulaya concept of polytheism or pantheism.

The problem of chronological and axiological priority of theory (myths, beliefs, ideas, concepts, doctrines, dogmata) and practice (worship, rites, ritual) in religion was discussed by students of different religions and civilizations (W. Robertson Smith, Andrew Lang, Wilhelm Schmidt, Otto Gruppe).

Thus, in the acts put forth by Mason and Jefferson, the concept of natural right is argued for in the language of Jewish and Christian belief about the Creator, who wishes to be worshiped in spirit and truth.

Even when said in the vernacular («Oh,» grieved my old Catholic neighbor, «if only the «liturgical experts» had merely forced us to switch to the English translation on the right - sided pages of our paperback Roman missals»), the Tridentine Mass, despite its shortcomings (even Archbishop Lefebvre admitted that it needed fine - tuning), conveyed the numinosity» an absolutely vital concept for those who turn to the Orient for their worship» that I was only able to find twenty frustrating years later in St. John Chrysostom's and St. Basil's Divine Liturgies.

Fundamentalism, he said, «represents a mind - set confined within one Prophet, one Book, a single way of worship» which by nature led to the «concept of believers going to heaven and nonbelievers going to hell, with a religious duty cast upon its followers to convert the rest by any means whatsoever» (Indian Express?

do you mean that the same mindless, lemming drones that follow their cults in worshiping the man - made gods can't comprehend the simple concept of «we're all humans... no better than one another... and it's OK to co-habitate»

A more organic concept of congregational life would do wonders for recasting the way we think about worship.

What's important is that we don't treat such concepts as if they were improvements on the ordinary ways in which the saints express the faith; they are simply shorthand terms, a tool kit which helps us keep certain crucial aspects of the gospel alive in the mind and worship of the church.

The author turns to Charles Hartshorne to interpret Whitehead's concept of God as «the one who is worshiped.»

Bonhoeffer's popular book Life Together deals with the practical relations of the church's life in Christ, including his concept of Christian community; how the community should worship by always including scripture, hymns and prayer both individual and common; personal worship that includes meditation, prayer and intercession; the problems of the church that require learning control of the tongue, meekness, listening, forbearing and proclaming.

In accord with this concept of the free market came other freedoms to supplement and enhance it: the freedom of an individual to engage in enterprise, the freedom to speak his mind and worship his God, the freedom to choose those who govern, as well as protection from those who govern, through a system of «checks and balances» whereby each of the three branches of government curbed the power of the others.

The concept of a Triune god was stolen from the ancient Egyptian's and has no place in pure worship.

Whitehead's concept of God, including both God's primordial nature and his consequent nature, is important because it achieves the need both for a religiously available God and a God worthy of worship.

New insights derived from understanding the nature of God in terms of this perception of reality produce a picture of God that is more consistent with the requirements of those who worship (i.e., a religious God) than traditional concepts about God.

A little history lesson is required for the president, America was supposedly founded on CHRISTIAN VALUES, the obvious result of freedom of RELIGIOUS WORSHIP was meant STRICTLY CHRISTIAN CONCEPTS, Baptists, Pentecostals, Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, Mormons, anything outside the Church of England.

It is not that revelation is a meaningless concept, nor that in fact no revelation is ever given; but rather that however we may experience it, in the «givenness» of truth, of the insights of great art, of poetry and of worship, it can never be authenticated as revelation by any criteria external to itself.

The concept of one supreme being was readily adopted, as it seemed greatly superior to the plethora of gods that were worshipped in the ancient world.

It is my hope to elaborate the concept «worship» in a way that will be compatible with the wide range of ways of understanding what is the Christian thing that we identified in chapter 2.

You would think that worshiping such a concept would be the definition of humanism, which really it kind of is from a different perspective.

When these honorable idolators of concepts worship something, they kill it and stuff it; they threaten the life of everything they worship.

9) Why is there no concept of a Trinity seen in the Torah or Hebrew scriptures (King David, Moses & «God's Friend» Abraham never knowingly worshipped a Trine God) 10) Why does the entire context of the Greek scriptures center around Jesus being God's son?

No concept of a god that would be even remotely worthy of worship would require such a violation of integrity.

While the Bible does not clearly outline the «thou shalt / shall nots» of dating (dating isn't even a concept in the Bible), from what I've seen, typical Christian dating begins with sly glances at each other during worship, a lot of prayer and deep consideration.

The lessons included are: Eucharist 1 (keywords and concepts) Eucharist 2 (meaning and interpretation) Artistic views of the Nativity and Crucifixion Christian Worship (including denominational differences) Christian Prayer (including types and aids of prayer)

According to the directive, the concept of religion should in particular include the holding of theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, the participation in, or abstention from, formal worship in private or in public, either alone or in community with others, other religious acts or expressions of view, or forms of personal or communal conduct based on or mandated by any religious belief (art. 10).

The concept of עבודה זרה, or idolatry in Judaism, is more akin to a concept of foreign worship by bringing in practices or priorities that would compete with this devotion.

The essence of the concept of freedom of religion is the right to entertain such religious beliefs as a person chooses, the rights to declare religious beliefs openly and without fear of hindrance or reprisal, and the right to manifest religious belief by worship and practice or by teaching and dissemination.

The directive also said that videos must promote the «fine traditional Chinese culture» and its concepts of «love, emphasis on the people, integrity, justice, harmony, and no worshiping of money or other bad habits.»

The idea that any VC has more ability to determine the value of a highly complex Blockchain project then the actual community who worships Satoshi Nakamoto, has deep understanding of the concepts, and crowdsources intelligence is highly laughable.

I have seen you mention the concept in the past, and I am guessing that it is connected to your church / place of worship, but other than that, I am stumped.