Sentences with phrase «even mystical»

Even mystical.

Bradford: Superman opened up a lot of interesting possibilities for me: he's supernatural, maybe even mystical.

In her works, Kyung - Lim Lee (* 1957, Seoul, Korea, lebt in Oxford, US) fuses the overall predominant geometric abstraction with a sensual and even mystical radiance.

She explores (and generates) feminist narratives and counter-narratives that cast the role of the art object in new light, introducing utilitarian, symbolic, and even mystical possibilities in contexts that are often limited to formalist readings.

The AAA has been for most of its history, a remarkably democratic organization tolerant of many points of view and, in recent years, the scope of its exhibitions has seemed to widen, including a variety of styles, attitudes to form, and a broad philosophical base which can include the aesthetic, the mathematical, the scientific and even the mystical.»

Materials with a strong physical presence, such as wood and paint, are paired with those that possess spiritual or even mystical associations, such as mirrors and light.

Put an average - looking Forester or Outback next to a pristine mountain stream and you get an unlikely — maybe even mystical — portrait of an industry powerhouse.

It is a profoundly spiritual, even mystical, description of her experience of a 1979 solar eclipse.

From practical, well - judged statements that the liturgy, church services, have their essential place, as symbolic acts, he ran the full gamut through to existential, even mystical, affirmations.

This involves a new spiritual and even mystical communion with the earth, a true aesthetic of the earth, a sensitivity to earth needs, a valid economy of the earth.

How many of us have even thought that we may be called to contemplative or even mystical prayer?

Similarly, functional psychology was the mode of inquiry into human behavior calculated to yield understanding of the human response to environmental demands, replacing introspective or subjective psychology whose interests were more internal and even mystical.

and even the mystical traditions in such western religions as christianity, judaism and islam.

Not exact matches

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

But even beyond that gift, she writes about desire, our longing for home, with a deeply orthodox and yet mystical and sensual soul.

This view is a little too mystical (or maybe even Gnostic) for most Christians, and yet it can not be proven or disproven from the text any more than the traditional view that God killed an animal to make clothes for Adam and Eve.

The notion has tantalized many, including Tertullian and Irenacus, and though it received little assistance from either Platonism or Aristotelianism because of their denigration of matter and the body (and hence did not enter the mainstream of either Augustinian or Thomistic theology), it surfaced powerfully in Hegel as well as in twentieth - century process theologies.22 The mystical tradition within Christianity has carried the notion implicitly, even though the metaphor of body may not appear: «The world is charged with the grandeur of God» (Gerard Manley Hopkins, 27).

I realize that the totality of all perfections, even natural perfections, is the necessary basis for that mystical and ultimate organism which you are constructing out of all things.

Even so this was a period which produced some fine mystical writing such as the fourteenth - century Theologia Germanica, which profoundly influenced Martin Luther, and the works of the English mystics.

There are, of course, also many literary treasures of spirituality, for example even today we may well recommend reading St. Augustine) St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila or any well - edited selection of mystical texts.

At a moment of crisis faith must have an inevitable temptation to return to an earlier or even a primordial form of the Word, but such a path is fundamentally a repetition of the universal mystical quest, and can by no means be judged to be a positive witness to the Word that becomes incarnate in the world.

But this fusion of horizons can take place not by a poetic divination into the language of the text, nor by a mystical identification with the preconceptual experience of the author of the text, but by the breaking in of the Word of God from the Beyond into our limited horizons and the remolding of them, in some cases even the overthrowing of them.

But where the mystical effort fails is in supposing that this human preparation in itself can bring us to see God, or even that as human effort it can bring us closer to God.

Even if it is held that Christ's true church, «the mystical Body of Christ,» is sinless, there is no existing, visible church of which this can be said.

A mystical conception of God can be dualistic or pantheistic, or even both in some peculiar combination.

I doubt that Orthodox faith communities are any easier to abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.

Even the most mystical of Christian mystics practiced silence so as to attend more closely to the ever - speaking God.

I may be a non-believer now, but I was raised Catholic, a religious minority in the US, and I know what it's like to be part of a misunderstood religion, a religion that even now, people think is weird, with the mystical aspects of Catholicism, the fact that we have a Pope who is the leader of not just the religion, but an independent state, the Vatican.

I see no consistent basis within the framework of Hall's own thought for asserting that this particular kind of experience is somehow «illegitimate,» that its aesthetic quality is greatly inferior to that which results from the experience of art or nature or interpersonal relationships or even of mystical contemplation.

Atheist can have all manner of ethical beliefs and even, as many atheist buddhists do, mystical religious beliefs.

Even the attempt to delineate two basic strands, the numinous and the mystical (Chapter 5 above), must not be construed as an exhaustive characterization, and must be coupled with recognition of the great differences between religious traditions.

Some of it was about Sufi like teachings on meditation and going only within and I will have to admit it was borderline a bit too mystical for me to understand... but then I tried to picture how they may have been influenced by Eastern meditation and that not by having the knowledge we have today, perhaps that made more sense then and perhaps even for some people it makes sense today.

Christian moral thinking has accepted this and has given marriage a special blessing, surrounding it with the aura of divine approval even if it has not always realistically grasped the fact that marriage is not inevitably an ideal state and that to insist on its continuance when love is absent is to condone what in effect is legalized rape and hence hardly an appropriate symbol for the Christian idea of marriage as representing «the mystical union of Christ and his Church.»

Heck, even every day people today live magical and mystical lives compared to those in the past not even 30 or 40 years ago, much less those in ancient times.

Even though the shepherd seems a bit mystical, from what I remember, it's not necessarily bad, but the Biblical epistles are so much better

When we get to Four Quartets we are still dealing with art, we are still studying a Modernist work of art, and we are handling a poem of awesome complexity and even (perhaps) confusion: but we are not reading a work of mystical theology.

A very true understanding of mystical experience is contained in the vision of Moses, and his needing the protection of God lest he die, even in the vision of «My hinder parts».

The Church (even with tax exempt status) is acting as an employer they come under secular laws, which legitimately trump any mystical authority.

Hamza, who was a member of the Qadiri order of Sufis even though he emphatically counted himself a follower of Ibn Arabi, traveled widely throughout Java and Sumatra expounding his mystical conceptions in symbolic and esoteric poetry.

Even so, the Greek patrimony contributed to the development of the mystical outlook and had a great deal to do with the elaboration of the Muslim system of belief.

Nowadays even a political party is based on mystical principles.

There is even a sense in which the person who hopes seeks thereby to lose or abandon herself to God, taking on the attitude of complete surrender that is typical of mystical experience everywhere.

Even where it is apparently preserved intact, we have instead of Jesus the inner Christ or the free mystical presence of God in the soul.

Robert Brown... coming in here and pretending to have some mystical secret handshake with a higher being is not original or even particularly entertaining.

Rhythms of the Night is an immersive dinner show experience like none other, transforming your night into an enchanted evening on a mystical land.

And his mystical 63 gets even better in the context of its surroundings.

Not only did Jack not arrive but he didn't even create an impression on the mystical yellow ticker tape.

By the time you read this, there will have been at least one leaders» debate, several gaffes no doubt and perhaps even one of those mystical «game - changing moments».

This modification, some scientists wager, might even be due to a mystical - sounding «fifth force» of nature, joining gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces.

Even though the high - resolution machines capable of identifying fetal sex and other finer characteristics were still years away, the press seized on the possibility that portraits of babies before birth might help us control the mystical birth process.