Sentences with phrase «cultic life of the community»
«2 Seeking the essence of Christianity, Troeltsch threaded his way between arguments for the knowledge of God by linguistic formulation and other arguments that discovered the path in mystical encounter.3 He located the bond between humanity and God in the cultic life of the community.
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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.
By thus extending the commandment to all the domains of life of the community and the individual, whether moral, juridic, or cultic, we only express the amplitude of this phenomenon without thereby really illuminating its specific nature.