Sentences with phrase «in mystical union»

There is in Julian a touch of spiritual masochism, in her mystical union with Christ in his sufferings.

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«Therefore that joining together of head and members, that indwelling of Christ in our hearts — in short that mystical union — are accorded by us the highest degree of importance.»

Such names as these bring us to the mystical «union of the soul with God,» as this supreme experience in prayer has been described.

«When Emerson advised the solitary individual to seek mystical union with the Divine in the woods,» writes Stoll, «he simply restated long - standing Calvinist advice.»

One of the most important studies is Denis de Rougemont's Love in the Western World, which makes a brilliant attempt to prove that romantic love was born of a Christian heresy, the catharism of the Middle Ages.25 This quasi-secret religion used conventional religious language to mask its own inner intent which was the celebration and mystical idolatry of sexual union.

Was this idea in Paul's mind when he implied that eating of the heathen feasts was a real «communion with demons,» and that in the same mystical sense the «cup of the Lord» and the «table of the Lord» conferred on Christians union with Christ?

ii) Correspondences that can not or are not allowed to be spoken out — these lie in the spirit breathed into man by God and thus belongs to the transcendent locus; this then is the reason why mystical knowledge and union with God becomes possible.

How do you answer the charge that Eckhart's theology of mystical union, in which the soul achieves «indistinction» and becomes one with God, is really a form of self - deification?

There is a measure of validity in the mystical «ladder of perfection» which finds a progression in the devout life from purgation through illumination to communion or union with God.

The second type of experience, mystical union, also seems to have common characteristics, or at least «family resemblances», in cultures which had almost no historical interaction.

The essence of the New Testament lay in the religious life it portrayed; its high - watermark was the experience of mystical union with Christ, in whom God took symbolic form.

Despite John Nevin's resistance to Charles Finney and the revivalist stream of Reformed Christianity in America, I find Mercersburg attractive because of the focus on a mystical union that is experiential and the refusal to allow Old - Princeton theologians like Charles Hodge to be the final arbiters of Reformed theology in the 19th century.

Expressing as they do the different ways in which the Triune life of God flows into the soul, they both facilitate the mystical union with Christ in the power of the Spirit.

It is mystical in the sense that it seeks union with, and longs to be lost in, the futurity of God.

The sense of «churchly appurtenance,» in von Hügel's phase, is something we must cultivate these days, to help our people recognize that in and through the parish of St. Vitus, Smithville, the very glory of the mystical Body of Christ shines forth, «the holy Church throughout all the world» is reflected, and Christ is present still as we offer ourselves, m union with His perfect Sacrifice, in the eucharistic memorial of the passion and death of our Head.

We are joined to him in living communion of spirit and a mystical union of body.

This mystical union finds its inspiration in the singular grace afforded Peter, James and John on the holy mountain.

Worship should bring the mystical and the ethical elements in religion into union.

The intimate union with a multitude of other individuals that such a unification implies would not resemble the common mystical image of a drop of water merged again in the all - encompassing sea.

This presence of the Spirit within each believer bringing with it mystical union with the Father and the Son empowers the believer beyond anything that was possible before: «Truly, truly, I say to you, any who believe in me [and this new mode of God's presence] will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will they do, because I go to the Father» (14:12).

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.»

And just as we can ponder on the Unity Law on many levels throughout creation, and marvel at God's work either in simplicity of principle or in great depth of detail, so too in the rosary we can contemplate the Mystery of Christ at many levels, from the childlike words of trust and confidence contained in the prayers themselves, through meditation on the mysteries of our Lord's loving work for us, to the heights of mystical union with the Mind and Heart of Christ.

The unbreakable union between Christ and the Church raises the union between a man and a woman in marriage to another mystical level.

It is rightly spoken of as «holy matrimony,» and as the time - honored ritual for its solemnizing has it, marriage is an honorable estate, instituted of God, and signifying unto us the mystical union which exists between Christ and his Church; which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence in Cana of Galilee.

Hope manifests its mystical side in its longing for ultimate union with the future and therefore deliverance from the relativity of the present.

In that sense at least, the desire for union with God is no less passionately mystical in biblically based religions than it is in the Asian traditionIn that sense at least, the desire for union with God is no less passionately mystical in biblically based religions than it is in the Asian traditionin biblically based religions than it is in the Asian traditionin the Asian traditions.

This corrosion of faith can be answered and reversed but in order to do so we must, as Holloway says, realise «the need for personal prayer, penance, humility, and union with God by meditation and mystical communion,» [10] so that thereby the Word of God will be manifested in our world not as «the breath of any imaginary pale Galilean, but the splendour and dynamism of God in the power of the Spirit,» Jesus Christ «the bringer in of the enormous vision that is splendid, the majesty of the Intellect of God and of Man, the fullness of the Kingdom on Earth which God has made for Man, and can bring to consummation only in and through His creature, Man.»

And yet her depictions of the sexual union between man and woman have an unmistakably mystical dimension rooted in the spiritual and physical union of opposites.