Sentences with phrase «contemplative orders»

Franciscan spirituality is pretty much the baseline for all of the Western contemplative Orders, IMO.

Avoiding the latter would require a profound rehabilitation of a contemplative order of thought and life and a certain primacy of contemplation over action, which are all but unintelligible within our pragmatic culture.

The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer is also a contemplative Order founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori.

Israelite prophecy could embrace the contemplative order of Mosaic law to call the nation toward faithfulness.

Not exact matches

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

Himmelfarb's final example is the biographer Phyllis Rose, who, against her brother - in - law's strongly expressed wishes, published an intimate account of his abandoning a successful career as a concert pianist in order to become a contemplative monk.

Indeed, in the Greek conception of things, this was the goal of soul life: to escape the created world of space and time in order to abide in its proper state of contemplative perfection.

The destruction of the monastic houses was an attack on a kind of approach to Christianity which was contemplative, ordered and quiet.

St. Dominic founded the Order of Preachers after a long contemplative season which, in the words of one biographer «burst into flame» when he encountered Albigensians (ancient Manichean dualists) on travels through southern France.

I was a member for 25 years in a Church that was under the pastoral care of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Redemptorists), a contemplative Religious Order that is faithful to the vision of its Founder, St. Alphonsus Liguori.

I have come to the conclusion that, with the exception of the contemplative Religious Orders that have either remained or returned to vision of their Founders, most American Christian Churches neither teach nor practice anything like the faith of the early NT Christian communities.

One of More's colleagues, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom, took to the podium at the same conference to predict «orgasms and aesthetic - contemplative pleasures whose blissfulness vastly exceeds what any human has yet experienced,» as well as «love that is stronger, purer and more secure than any human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being of a far higher order than those we can realize as unenhanced biological humans.»

«Monk» was generally used for members of the older orders using the Rule of St Benedict sixth century AD) who remained in the same monastery for life and were broadly «contemplatives».

A marked break with his previous emotionally charged acrylic paintings that merged representation, abstraction, and text (exhibited at 532 Gallery Jaeckel in 2010), the contemplative oil paintings in The Ribbons That Tie Us demonstrate the artist's evolving and deepening commitment to breaking past stereotype and false exteriors in order to truly know other people.

Letter to a Refusing Pilot (2013), a peaceful, contemplative video first shown at the 55th Venice Biennale and the centrepiece of Thomas Dane's current exhibition, takes Tamir's empathetic objection as its centre point, making use of local footage, aerial photographs and drawings in order to reconstruct this character and the event.

It is the seed of an idea that could, under the right contemplative circumstances, circumstances that require openness in order to manifest, grow into a forest of thought.

The contemplative process expanded further from the initial idea, compelling the artist to include the concept of «limitless» into his work, by fusing unrestrained chaos and calculated order.

Grounded in Parlá's personal first - generation Cuban American immigrant family story and an ever - evolving practice that concerns exiled communities and their contribution to America, Roots offers a new visual relationship with its pictorially contemplative environment in order to consider connections between local history and the past, present, and future.

He extends the vocabulary of geometric and hard edge abstraction through an engagement with sculptural forms and architecture to exploit time and duration in order to create an unfolding contemplative experience for the viewer.

St. Lucia About Blog Practice Within The Order of Buddhist Contemplatives.