Sentences with phrase «from profane»

«Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane.

With their clear, saturated colors of red, white, yellow, brown and black, the 39 works on view through June 28 at both galleries (including Blood and Piss Piss Piss) resemble the best of post-Pop pranksterism as well as stained - glass windows from a profane and playful church of the life spirit.

Neel's novel is packed with realistic (and sometimes hilarious) characters, from a profane, Spanx - wearing president to harried political staffers, pushy reporters and clueless congressmen.

Director David Gordon Green reunites with two of his «Pineapple Express» stars, James Franco and Danny McBride, in this raunchy medieval comedy about a pair of princes who embark on a perilous journey to save a kidnapped princess (Zooey Deschanel) from a profane evil wizard (Justin Theroux)-- and meet up along the way with a warrior who looks great in a thong (Natalie Portman).

It's a sign of the film's quality that it gets more varied and delightful mileage out of those physical reactions — from the entire cast, delivered with nuanced subtlety — then most other romantic comedies get from profane jokes and clumsy slapstick.

This was understood as passing from the profane level of human life through a transformation which raised the human being to the sacred level, into a relationship with God who is Holy.

If faith in the Word of God can only be the work of the Holy Ghost operating through intelligent decision, it follows that the understanding of the text is attainable only in systematic interpretation, and the terminology which directs this understanding can be acquired only from profane reflection, which is the business of the philosophical analysis of existence.

That preparatory moment shifted from profane to sacred ground on this occasion.

In biblical faith God is so different from us, and the sacred so remote from our profane feet, that when we violate perfection, God — in this picture drawn from human emotions — is wrathful.

Now the dualistic sin of the Christian church, its original heresy, is that of resurrecting Jesus into the heavens with God in glory and the designation of the church as Christ's mystical body on earth.15 In actuality this doctrinal pronouncement represents a reversal of God's kenotic movement into humanity in Christ's flesh and in his death, for contrary to the spirit of kenotic incarnation, the church has become ever more sacredly apart from the profane, and the resurrected Savior ever more transcendent of the world.

place, at sacred times, through sacred persons as distinct from a profane, «unholy» people, and the adoration of God in spirit and in truth is not, indeed abolished, but radically relativized.

Kayan is ironic; He projects cynicism, judges, shames, and insults to split the pure from the profane..

It is difficult for any critic of the president to separate the sacred from the profane; it is also difficult to break through a polarized media environment.

Not exact matches

Based on what we saw in «The Hateful Eight,» including a memorable monologue from Samuel L. Jackson that is too profane to write out here, it looks like Tarantino has something new to boast about.

He shakes his head vigorously, hoping to shake such a profane vision from his sight.

Like its New Testament original, the profane form of the Incarnation isolates authentic existence from the presence of «being» and «history,» and it does so dialectically.

(Isaiah 6:1 - 3) Such a God was not lightly to be approached; an inviolability not to be profaned lay deep in Isaiah's thought of the Eternal; but reverence had taken the place of dread as the corollary of holiness, majesty had displaced the former dangerousness of the deity, and the response demanded from man by the holiness of the Most High had become thoroughly ethical.

The charismatic world view romantically draws one away from the conventionality of life into the contention of the sacred and the profane.

Once we grasp the radical Christian truth that a radically profane history is the inevitable consummation of an actual movement of the sacred into the profane, then we can be liberated from every preincarnate form of Spirit, and accept our destiny as an occasion for the realization in the immediacy of experience of the self - emptying or self - annihilation of the transcendent and primordial God in the passion and death of Christ.

All such religious claims not only attempt to solidify and freeze the life and movement of the divine process, but they foreclose the possibility of the enlargement and evolution of faith, and ruthlessly set the believer against the presence of Christ in an increasingly profane history, thereby alienating the Christian from the actuality of his own time.

The conflict between them, then, far from involving a tension between the profane and the holy, is a conflict within the divine itself, whose only possible resolution is the death — the sacrifice — of the protagonist.

A truly dialectical leap of faith is inseparable from its ground in an absolutely profane moment of time and space.

There continues to be much to learn from Kierkegaard, a man who not only arrived at a radical and dialectical understanding of faith, but who did so in the context of the advent of a world that is totally profane.

And even all the old testament god saving us from the evil cannans and wickedness all death in the old is justified god says he will rip the Jews open dash there children to pieces because they profaned his name everywhere and did much evil and abominations that God does hate.

I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

But in a way, the choice to depart from the novel and input an indefinite final image — one that signals ambiguity in the struggle between the profane and the sacred — serves as metaphor for Scorsese's own faith.

Noting that we do not live in a sacred world valuing «received knowledge» from holy writ, but in a profane world harshly criticizing that tradition, Victoria Erickson of Union Theological Seminary in New York City wondered if we dared invite our worst critics into our classrooms for dialogue.

Bultmann has handed out the task of demythologizing not only to the New Testament proclamation, but also to theology, and how important that task is in his eyes may be seen from the space he gives to the discussion of a profane existential philosophy.

Coming from radically secular France, where the revolutionaries of 1789 seized, profaned, and closed Christian institutions throughout the republic in the name of «natural rights,» Maritain fears that Americans will not hold fast to their own originality:

But does the actuality of this movement derive from the renewal or repetition of the profane?

Seen in this perspective, religion itself can only appear or arise in conjunction with a rupture between the sacred and the profane, a rupture testifying to the alienation of immediate existence from a sacred or transcendent ground.

Yet this movement of the sacred into the profane is inseparable from a parallel movement of the profane into the sacred.

To cut off the actions that express this relation from the affirmation of the whole human mind means to profane them.

Holiness in its fundamental nature, separates itself from the unholy and the profane.

In «Christianity and Myth» Cobb again considers the possibility of Christian theism for the modern mind.120 The profane spirit of contemporary man finds it impossible to talk about some «reality radically different from all other reality...,» i.e., to speak mythically.

Similar sentiments are heard today from «pastoral planners» who take their cues from Protestant megachurches in which creating a feeling of «ownership» on the part of the congregation, often by blurring the border between sacred and profane, is very much part of the marketing - and - retention strategy.

Sister Mary Corita chose to answer these questions with the words of William Sloane Coffin: «Because we love the world, we pray now, O [God], for grace to quarrel with it, O Thou whose lover's quarrel with the world is the history of the world... Lord, grant us grace to quarrel with the worship of success and power... to quarrel with all that profanes and trivializes [people] and separates them... number us, we beseech Thee, in the ranks of those who went forth from this place longing only for those things for which Thou dost make us long, [those] for whom the complexity of the issues only served to renew their zeal to deal with them, [those] who alleviated pain by sharing it; and [those] who were always willing to risk something big for something good... O God, take our minds and think through them, take our lips and speak through them.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed:: Profane and sacred all at the same time.

Allegiance to such forms leads one away from the only true form of the sacred, that found in the immediate moment and in the midst of the profane.

The world, the natural, the profane and reason are now all taken up into God from the outset.

This can only mean that distinctions between what is holy [set apart for God] and what is profane [set apart from God] were set at naught.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

In the Jewish religious tradition these purity rules formed a closely interlocking network which clearly marked off the sacred precincts of the Temple, the holy land of Israel, and the covenant people of God (or groups of the «separated» within the people), from the «profane» world peopled by the «demon - ruled nations» outside.

However, from another perspective, the very profane Existenz which our destiny has unveiled may yet prove to be a path to a universal form of faith.

Apart from a free acceptance of the death of God there lies no way to our profane present.

The Christian without God is a waiting man for Altizer, daring to descend into the darkness, grappling with all that is profane to wrest from it its potential sacral power.

The history of religions teaches us that Christianity stands apart from the other higher religions of the world on three grounds: (1) its proclamation of the Incarnation, (2) its world - reversing form of ethics, and (3) the fact that Christianity is the only one of the world religions to have evolved — or, in some decisive sense, to have initiated — a radically profane form of Existenz.

By way of examples, consider the substitution of «intercultural studies» for «mission studies»; the deference shown to doctorates from secular universities; the multiplication of courses featuring secular content in preference to theological teaching; and the accolades accorded mission strategies created out of profane proposals.

For Burke, the movement between the sacred and the profane was simply a transition from one form of ecstasy to another.

There must be a total disassociation from the concept of a totality that preexisted the separation of reality into sacred and profane so that history can be viewed as the working out of an identity of the two.