Sentences with word «cultic»

The medieval Christian, in spite of his Gospel, found himself enslaved to an ecclesiastical system in which his future salvation depended on an intricate set of cultic practices.

Rather, the condemnations must be seen in the light of ritual impurity - homosexuality is condemned because of its use in cultic worship practices, as found in Canaanite religions and then imitated in ancient Israel.

Working across different media, the artists featured in the exhibit reinterpret semi-recent art history while using cultic ritual as a formal methodology in referring to, and departing from, our artistic antecedents.

I do not mean to preclude the possibility of affiliation of some of the great prophets with cultic associations of prophets, much less the existence of such associations.

In the priestly - cultic institution the holiest symbol is the mercy - seat, a solid - gold rectangular plate, conforming to the top dimensions of the ark of the covenant (2-1/2 x 1-1/2 cubits: a cubit was 18 inches?)

However Ritschlianism was already giving way to the religionsgeschichtliche Schule, whose philosophy of religion centred in a decided preference for cultic experience over ethical action, and whose historical reconstruction saw primitive Christianity orientated like other Hellenistic religions to the cult's dying and rising Lord, rather than to the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount.

Volf joins a widening cadre of Christian theologians who seek to anchor the nature and mission of the local church in trinitarian thought rather than the shifting sands of cultural practices or the muddy bottoms of tired cultic traditions.

The sometimes formidable Priestly structure, elaborately prescribed in cultic form, equipment, and personnel, is not an end in itself, as sometimes it may appear and as, in interpretation, it has often been alleged.

The Hebrew cultic drama, then, portrayed not alone the cosmic triumph, but also the «great works of the Lord» in Egypt and the wilderness and in Canaan.

Both the early cultic use of the Ten Commandments and their present - day meaning will be sought in this volume.

In this later cultic expression that so captivated Renaissance audiences, a new religious star was born.

Cultic Studies Review, volume 4, no. 1.

The standpoint of cultic religion appears not only in the legislation for temple and sacrifice, but also in all the ritual regulations which burdened the life of the individual.

Cultic requirements constitute verses 29 - 31.

We can not at this point follow the tragic, challenging story of Jeremiah, but with reference to the law he saw, more clearly than any other man of his time, that its essence could not be fulfilled by cultic busyness at the temple.

With Aaron's consent and counsel, they make what they take to be a representation of «the LORD» in this form, and hold a full - fledged cultic celebration to «the LORD» (vs. 5).

The author is correct in stating that many churches and denominations have cultic characteristics.

Tax resistance provided a portal to the vast array of theologies and ideologies of the American cultic milieu — including the doctrines of the Posse Comitatus, who regard all jurisdictions higher than that of the county as illegitimate.

«Festivals and pilgrimages,» I have said in another context, «are outstanding occasions, for here we find a close interrelation between different cultic activities such as purifications, lustrations, prayer, vows, offerings, sacrifices, and processions all of which are of particular interest both to the historian and the sociologist of religion» (Sociology of Religion, p. 42).

In the round of the Old Testament cultic year, the most prominent and probably the oldest festival is the passover.

Relying heavily on cultic myths and practices of various religions, Girard attempts to explain why violence is at the center of all societies and religions, and why, in fact, violence gave birth to religion.

So it is in the old cultic credos:

It is important to remember that we are dealing with a part of the Old Testament story which had a long oral history before it assumed its written form, and no doubt the oral form was shaped, preserved, and periodically «celebrated» at some particular, ancient cultic center.

It is our next interest, therefore, to consider Christian worship, in order to determine what are the peculiar elements in that particular kind of cultic action.

This attitude could endure, because along with these national and cultic laws the Old Testament contains also an abundance of universal ethical precepts for the permanent relationships between man and man, for situations of life which remain essentially the same in all ages.

In ancient Mexico and Polynesia, in West Africa, Egypt, Rome, Babylon, and Israel, in Hinduism and Confucianism, in Mahayana Buddhism and in the Catholic forms of Christianity we have examples of differentiation in cultic functions as well as social differentiation.

The majority of people turn a blind eye to cultic things because of our tolerance to it.

Rather, the apprehension of the supreme «I» was such that certain cultic practices and taboos associated with his worship appeared altogether irrelevant.

Jesus does not think of man in terms of the anthropological dualism of Hellenistic mysticism; that is, he does not speak of the tragedy of man, of the entangling of the divine soul in the earthly body, of its purification and liberation, either through cultic means or through contemplation, devotion, and absorption of self into the Infinite.

Though they don't say it, I imagine the authors are against Christmas and Easter as well, since both of these holidays are steeped in pagan cultic worship practices.

Among those forms of response we can identify three major modes: (1) worship as embellished public lecture; (2) worship as therapy; (3) worship as cultic rite.

But Rabshakeh is acquainted with the reforms of Hezekiah.4 Hezekiah has removed holy things, the Canaanite deities, the brazen serpent which had become an object of worship, the more or less pagan cultic sites.

The covenant imposed cultic obligations on Israel, and the prophets were by no means anti-cultic (to think so is a very modern, indeed very Protestant misunderstanding).

The impatient people, to whom the reality of Moses and Yahweh has become only a memory and who know the widespread representation of deity in the form of a calf (probably a young bull, denoting primarily the strength of reproductive power and fertility, natural and human), with Aaron's consent and counsel, make Yahweh (v. 5) in this form, and to Yahweh thus materialized they hold a full - fledged cultic celebration.

Thus Psalm 50 would appear to have had its liturgical cultic setting in the repeated ceremony of covenant renewal; and Psalm 24 has long been recognized as a liturgy recited at the temple doors antiphonally between the temple personnel within and the procession of newly arrived pilgrims without.

Too often I think cultic behavior is exhibited in churches that would vehemently deny being a cult.

What was their early cultic meaning?