Sentences with phrase «known cultus»

And this situation becomes meaningful for our present problem in the light of the well - known cultus of Baal.

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With the ancient altars no longer standing, with the sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed, with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellowship.

I no longer have enough confidence in the positions of verbal - plenary inspiration and inerrancy to deny that it is possible some aspects of the Hebrew cultus were at first pagan — human methods of honoring gods turned to honor THE God.

Far from repudiating the cultus, the prophet as exemplified in Second Isaiah can and does appropriate the liturgy in common use in the daily round of cultic exercise and, again in the case of Second Isaiah, make frequent appeal to familiar lines in the common ritual in the repeated words, «Have you not known, have you not heard...» (Isa.

This undoubtedly signifies that God no longer supports the cultus, that he no longer accepts the consecration of cultic objects.

10 - 13), a decalogue is given which, however, concentrates exclusively on concerns of the cultus, and has therefore come to be known as the Ritual Decalogue, as against what is often called the Ethical Decalogue of Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5: