Sentences with word «cultus»

According to Acts 8:1 he was present when Stephen was stoned and approved of his condemnation; and Stephen had rejected the temple cultus, maintaining that the Jewish people had killed the prophets and «the righteous one» (Acts 7:52).

In Hebrews 2:17 and 4:14 - 16 the Jewish cultus of the temple is brought to mind and Christ is seen as the supreme sacrifice which assuages God's anger and enables us to come before Him.

In quality the future is of a piece with the present: «now» embraces tomorrow and tomorrow3 — in all of which, appropriate response to the confessional knowledge of meaning in history is faithful participation in the Yahweh cultus.

The cultivation of culture — first, among Catholics themselves, and then outwards from there — depends on a proper cultus, a liturgy in which God is sought and found.

At about the same time, Samaritan Judaism cut itself off from the Jerusalem center and established its own exclusive cultus on Mount Gerizim adjacent to ancient Shechem.

One notes again that «culture» is derived from the Latin cultus, meaning what we revere or worship or hold ourselves accountable to.

In the course of time the church developed an ever stronger framework of organization, a more formal expression of doctrine, and an intricate liturgical cultus.

The old cultus of the Temple and the whole external institution of Yahwism which earlier prophets condemned for its enthusiastic but hollow support is now for the exiles beyond reach, and in Jerusalem itself about to be extinguished.

He profanes the divinely instituted cultus.

At the same time every world faith, if it is truly a world faith and not a local cultus, also generates a universal vision.

And this situation becomes meaningful for our present problem in the light of the well - known cultus of Baal.

It is impossible to determine from these sections the actual objects involved in Israel's early cultus.

The historical, etiological and theological meaning of the covenant in relation to the patriarchs (Genesis 12 - 50), the Sinai decalogue (Exodus 19 - 20), the Covenant Code (Exodus 2:1 - 24), the work and person of Moses (Exodus 32 - 34), the priestly cultus and ethic (Leviticus 16, 19, 23 - 26), the narratives of wilderness and occupation (Numbers 5 - 6, 11 - 17, 20 - 24; Joshua 1 - 12, 23 - 24).

Both Jesus and Paul followed the usual Jewish custom of giving thanks before partaking of food, and the example of Jesus has made grace before meat an important part of the Christian cultus.

Now this is really a public appearance of Jesus at the center of the Jewish cultus, the strongest kind of challenge to all those who were hitherto in control there.

«Now» embraces tomorrow and tomorrow.2 The appropriate response to the confessional knowledge of meaning in history is, of course, faithful participation in the Yahweh cultus.

The temple cultus, with its sacrifices and offerings and the arrangements for providing sacrificial victims, had become such an elaborate, noisy, and odorous affair that to the earnest young prophet from Galilee the spirit of true worship must have seemed to be lost.

The fact that Moses followed the advice of Jethro (18:13 - 27) lends support to the general proposition of Israelite Yahwism's ultimate (if unmeasurable and indefinite) indebtedness to the faith and cultus of Jethro.13

This has been seriously submitted as weighty evidence that Jeremiah was one of the prophesying attendants on the cultus.

Groups or guilds of prophets are attested over the whole range of the history of the kingdoms from the time of Saul in the eleventh century B.C. until the fall of Jerusalem in the early sixth century B.C. Nor is there any question that these associated professional prophets were related to the cultus and / or the court and regularly discharged certain cultic professional duties.

The David - Zion event was also given expression in the cultus, that is, in the liturgies of the Jerusalem temple which Solomon built upon the hill of Zion.

This full - fledged view of life is depicted beautifully and profoundly in the book of Ecclesiastes, the words of which expose the bogus promises of Athena's cultus and of the Horatio Alger panacea.

A wide and little cultivated field is open to the investigator in the comparative study of the differentiation of functions, especially in the narrow sense (function in the cultus).

However, it would be a great mistake to look upon the expression in fellowship as one that may or may not be added to a full expression in belief and cultus.

The history of our discipline is replete with examples of leading scholars and schools preoccupied with one or the other form of expression of religious experience: theoretical or practical, myth or cultus, rational or mystical piety, individual or collective religion.

This was just the kind of religious life portrayed in the New Testament, not only as a model and pattern, but as a challenge and inspiration The New Testament was thus the abiding source of power which enabled man to realize the true life of religion, and Christ was the eternal symbol for the cultus of the Christian Church.

It is a mode of expression which makes it easy to understand the cultus as an action in which material means are used to convey immaterial power.

Hence the supreme manifestation of religion was to be found not in personal ethics or in social idealism but in the cultus regarded as an end in itself.

The Temple and its cultus were reconstituted, the walls of Jerusalem finally rebuilt, and covenant life in covenant community was resumed — not, to be sure, in demonstrable terms of Jeremiah's and Ezekiel's new covenant, but at least so as to provide substance for the preservation of that hope and expectation.