Sentences with phrase «cultic action»

The bread and hymns / prayers which mark Jesus» cultic action at the Last Supper are the New Testament fulfilment known as the Eucharist of the Old Testament zebach toda, with the unique bloody death of Jesus on the cross taking the place of the temple sacrifices.

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It includes both the community's cultic or ritual life (repetitive, symbolic actions expressive of the community's sacred story) and its people's daily work (vocation or «profession») in the world.

Furthermore, such worship tends to have a cultic quality — it is a social action, in which the particular race or tribe makes its act of adoration.

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.

First, the sacramental action itself, in whatever cultic or liturgical form, is a dramatized proclamation of the life - giving death of Jesus.

It will be recalled that in describing the nature of worship, in its most general sense, we found that there were five elements which form the action of the believer in his cultic approach to deity: Adoration, or praise; thanksgiving; acknowledgement of failure or sin; prayer for others; prayer for oneself.