Sentences with phrase «cultic form»

One really must say that there is no religious concept, no dogmatic teaching, no ethical demand, no churchly institution, no cultic form and practice of piety in Christianity which does not have diverse parallels in the non-Christian religions.

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.

When this vision becomes blurred, neglected, threatened or subject to neglect, the fundamentals are not only reasserted, but reasserted in specific formulas or cultic forms that are often confused with the fundamentals themselves.

Not exact matches

Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).

There is a version in Exodus Thirty - four, which is basically from the Yahwist document and which is almost totally cultic and not ethical, having to do with worship forms, not behavior.

I am 60 years old, grew up in a very legalistic cultic church, been part of several church leaderships, served as pastor of a start up church, read and went to many, many, many church growth conferences, wanted to reach the lost, always trying to find the best structures, the best form of church, and what type of bells and whistles will attract people to church.

The great «I,» who was bound by no form and hence by no place, was progressively understood to be fully independent of his people and their cultic worship.

Most religious groups expect the arts to contribute their share to the cultic expression of religious experience, but in some communities the arts are frowned upon and excluded from all forms of worship.

On the contrary, it has been precisely those forms of religion believed in one way or another to be antithetical to a secular world, and so vulnerable to «the acids of modernity,» that have sprouted up everywhere and have grown at an astounding rate; namely, fundamentalist religion of every variety; ecstatic, charismatic religion; esoteric, cultic religion; mystical, otherworldly religion; religious sectarianism that «opts out» of society, its customs and its responsibilities — not to mention every possible variety of the occult.

Lind accepts holy war as a cultic institution that deeply influenced Israel's life and history, but he does not agree that synergism is its typical form.25

«In the New Testament these terms refer normatively to «serving God,» «doing the will of God,» in a great variety of ways most of which are without cultic significance or form, and which refer principally to that which is done for and among men — not to something done to or for God in a sanctuary.

Form - critical studies confirm the prophets» cultic orientation.

Form criticism underscores the role of oral tradition by demonstrating that much of profoundest meaning in the Old Testament is closely related to a continuing cultic activity which was largely sustained by the mouth and memory of successive generations of participants.

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.

At the same time, form critics remind us that any interpretation must take into account the confessional form of the story, that is, its present structure, intent, and emphasis as derived from its cultic use, as imparted from its repeated recitation throughout Israel's generations on the occasion of the annual celebration of the great deliverance.

We suggest, then - though still holding that specific, dogmatic answers are impossible - that the poem in substantially its present form came into existence within a century or so of the event of the Exodus; in repeated, annual liturgical use it probably became relatively «fixed»; and probably it was appropriately modified, possibly chiefly in interpretation, when the cultic rehearsal of God's creation of Israel was shifted to Jerusalem.

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).

I came into contact not only with exorcism and sorcery, but also with forms of magic in cultic dance, words, writings, and pictures.

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.

Perhaps the reminder is again in order that Israel's interest in the original «event» rests predominantly in its present and continuing meaning that the form of the narrative before us is unquestionably cultically conditioned, that is, shaped by the influences of cultic circles at centers of worship in which, the tradition was maintained; and that this cultic tradition returns an image of Moses formed out of long years of meditation on the total significance of his life and time through the succeeding generations of Israel's life.

The oldest forms of Israel's cultic recitations (Deut.

Did these cultic prescriptions first appear in the corpus of an extensive code (the Covenant Code of Exodus 20 - 23), to be distilled into briefer, decalogue form, or was the Ritual Decalogue original and its individual prescriptions subsequently incorporated in the longer code?

Both sections are concerned — sometimes in closely corresponding or even identical terms — with the physical means, forms, nature, dimensions, and personnel of the cultic - religious institution, the first section ostensibly as plans and the second as detailing the actual construction, realization, and inauguration of the full - fledged cultic institution.

He did not specifically cite the congregation as the locus of the worshipping Christian community, nor was he sanguine about the long continuation of any institutional form of the church, but his acuity in aligning the essential faith of Christianity with its cultic expression in specific communities provides an explanation for the present strength of the local church.

20 - 23; but especially 23:13 - 19) indicate that this cultic decalogue is unique only in arrangement, and its present form is obviously an expansion of an original «ten words.»