Sentences with phrase «form of devotional»

The best plan is either a consecutive reading in one book a few verses at a time, or the passage for the day indicated in some form of devotional guide.

Yet in our time the form of devotional aid most widely used is probably The Upper Room, Today, Forward, or some other serial publication in pamphlet form.

The second stage in the development of this form of devotional theism is the wedding of the Bhagavata religion and Sankhya philosophy.

Not exact matches

By «classical spirituality,» Wells is referring to the devotional habits and moral demeanor of the Protestant Reformers which had been «passed on in deepened pastoral form by the Puritans» and now have extended «down through history and into the present through people like Martyn Lloyd - Jones, J. I. Packer, John Stott, Francis Schaeffer, and Carl Henry.»

This separated religion is man's greatest danger whether it manifests itself in the form of a cult in which sacramental forms are independent of everyday life or of a soul detached from life in devotional rapture and solitary relation with God.

It will be enough to say that somewhere, not far from the beginning of the Christian era it attained its present form and has been since that time the highest expression of the essentially devotional type of Hinduism at its best.

For it is necessary that the faith of the Church, as this has been articulated during the two thousand years of Christian history in the form of theological statements, should be made known to the people; it is equally necessary that the developed principles of Christian life, in respect to devotional practice and in terms of daily conduct, should be taught.

In contrast, orthodox devotional Hindus would, like Paul VI on behalf of Christians, hold that it was to themselves and the members of their sect that God had long since revealed the «perfect and definitive form, free from all error.»

The second consideration is that as the individual develops in his life of prayer, he will find that petition for material advantage is less and less a part of his asking, and that more and more he desires only that he may be conformed to God's Will, so that as Christ's Spirit is formed in him he is enabled to live as un autre Christ — that fine phrase which was so often used by French devotional writers in the seventeenth century.

David Atkinson's devotional interests come to the fore in the first sentence of, The Message of Genesis 1 - 11: The Dawn of Creation (The Bible Speaks Today Series, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1990, 190 pp., $ 12.99): «The poem of beauty and grandeur which forms the opening chapter of our Bibles is a hymn of praise ot the majesty of God the Creator.»

mp4 video format)- A Homework Task The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification: Buddhist Practices and Forms of Worship • The role and significance of different forms of worship including: - Meditation - Chanting - Puja and devotional ritual - Mantra - Malas - Offerings • The significance of worship in the temple • The significance of worship in the home • The purpose of devotional ritual • The relationship between devotional worship and the aim of ending duForms of Worship • The role and significance of different forms of worship including: - Meditation - Chanting - Puja and devotional ritual - Mantra - Malas - Offerings • The significance of worship in the temple • The significance of worship in the home • The purpose of devotional ritual • The relationship between devotional worship and the aim of ending duforms of worship including: - Meditation - Chanting - Puja and devotional ritual - Mantra - Malas - Offerings • The significance of worship in the temple • The significance of worship in the home • The purpose of devotional ritual • The relationship between devotional worship and the aim of ending dukkha.

Insogna's devotional ceramic cauldrons reference scrying - an ancient form of divination, are paired with colorful abstract and symbolic figurative paintings to evoke a history of ritual practice.

Modigliani's Têtes reflect his devotional mania for carving, or the liberation of form from a block of stone.

With shamanistic inspiration from both African American history and art history, many of Johnson's more recent works employ these materials in a way that suggests an indefinite form of mysticism and a role as devotional objects.

The humblest forms are elevated to devotional objects through the act of embellishment.»