Sentences with phrase «in mystical encounter»

«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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His mystical theology of uncreated grace, the purifying encounter with God in His very Godhead, is henceforth anchored to the preaching and ritual of the Church as the concrete locus of God's certain, undialectical presence.

When you get to the 13th century in The Flowering of Mysticism, the mystical encounter seems to take on a decidedly charismatic expression in which the individual is somehow visibly touched by the divine — Francis being perhaps the prime example of the believer who so puts on Christ that he bears Christ's wounds.

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

Then on 10th September 1946, at the age of 36, while travelling by train for her annual retreat with her community in Darjeeling, she had a mystical encounter with Jesus in which she heard him say to her, «I thirst.»

When we think of saints, we often picture statues in cathedrals, stained glass, miraculous appearances, and mystical encounters.

Panikkar's lifelong effort is to call people, with human words that will always remain frail, to the encounter of religions in that depth, grounded in mystical experience; to invite them to a conversion towards the Cosmotheandric Reality.

How far the renewed interest of some Christians in the mystical and contemplative traditions is indebted to Hinduism it is hard to say, but Western Christians can still be helped to discover a deeper dimension to life by encounter with the authentic spiritual teaching and practice of Hinduism.

«For me, religious belief is more about mystical feelings about the world, and God is something one encounters in one's self,» says Isham, who converted to Christianity at the age of 40.

Along the way the Dragon brothers will encounter 10 unique enemies (some with multiple skins like in Neon), and eventually face the gun - toting boss Willy and possibly another mystical threat or two.

The rest of the story in William Collins» screenplay follows Ben and Saoirse trying to find their way back to the lighthouse, although they encounter plenty of adventures and mystical characters of good and of ill along the way.

Encountering mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf along the way, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom.

Swimming with wild whales in the languid lagoons of Tonga is a mystical, magical experience but Australian eco-tour operator, Majestic Whale Encounters, will add even more

The Lumini will travel through landscapes worn by time whilst encountering mystical creatures and solving puzzles all in an attempt to discover why the Lumini vanished.

Limp Voyeur in a Humid Landscape will provide a rare opportunity to encounter Di Meo's surrealist paintings, sculpture and mixed - media reliefs from the 1950s and 1960s, when he played an active part in the famous «Monster Roster» — a group of painters and sculptors characterised by their mystical, fantasy - like works.

He fondly reminisces about first encountering the «virtuoso realist» in the 1980s when he was briefly a clerk in the Met's bookstore, and the critical eye he brought to his mystical city paintings.