Sentences with phrase «most mystical»

[4] Her work stands as a consummate portrayal of the world's most durable, most mystical, most consistently recorded animal.

Preston's latest task is to find the most mystical artifact in English mythology: Excalibur, the sword of the legendary King Arthur.

Time of the trip is 3 to 4 hours (112 Km), then you have to take the bus to go to this most mystical, magical place.

Accessible via the Pipiwai Trail that weaves through groves of bamboo, the waterfall is arguably one of Maui's most mystical, magical spots.

You will explore Cusilluchayoq (known as «Sacsayhuamansito» or «Little Sacsayhuaman» because of the similar architecture), Quillahuan, Laguna de Inkatambo and «Temple of the Moon» - one of the most mystical places in Cusco.

Possibly one of the most mystical dog breeds in the world.

One of the most mystical Corvettes ever built is the 1963 Grand Sport, with only five of the very special high - performance vehicles ever made...

One of the most mystical Corvettes ever built is the 1963 Grand Sport, with only five of the very special high - performance vehicles ever made by Zora Arkus - Duntov and his crew before GM brass cancelled the project.

In Nigeria, beans are said to be the most mystical food of twins.

It also allows them to foreshadow and save the most mystical Dormammu for a future movie.

The most mystical time of the year has come to a close.

Even the most mystical of Christian mystics practiced silence so as to attend more closely to the ever - speaking God.

In proving the existence of God and explaining the genesis of all things, the Qur» an has furnished the most reasonable and most mystical proofs.

For the most mystical of Pentecostals, the height of spirituality is an ineffable, ecstatic experience of intimacy with God.

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For most of my life, I pictured psychics as mystical, mysterious women who stealthily read auras and kept all - knowing tarot cards handy, living in magical, faraway places, usually covered in beads and crystal balls.

Headhunters, especially those at the most elite firms — Spencer Stuart, Heidrick & Struggles, Egon Zehnder, and Korn Ferry — may seem as mystical (and unapproachable) as they are often powerful.

I don't think «intuition» is some kind of mystical flow of spiritual cognition that lays dormant, then when you most need it, it arises like a vapor in your «heart».

East Eastern Christians see a dichotomy of God and creation Eastern theologians are largely unaffected by modernism Eastern theologians do not agonize over the existence of God Eastern theologians systematize the transcendent, the miraculous, and the mystical into their theology, without a concept of «supernatural» Eastern theologians have coherent and helpful answers for most practical spiritual problems (such as during bereavement) Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and bereavement counseling; thus they do not outsource religious problems to secular experts.

He does not discuss a single major Protestant or Catholic theologian who has systematically discussed this issue of faith and history — not Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Hans Conzelmann, Gerhard Ebeling, Hans Frei, Friedrich Gogarten, Hans Küng, Schubert Ogden, Karl Rahner, James M. Robinson or Paul Tillich (who, incidentally, is dismissed in a footnote as «too mystical for most Christians, including most Christian intellectuals»).

This view is a little too mystical (or maybe even Gnostic) for most Christians, and yet it can not be proven or disproven from the text any more than the traditional view that God killed an animal to make clothes for Adam and Eve.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

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.

I, like most other persons who attempt to engage in some kind of ojbective reasoning process, have great doubt about the «mystical» elements of all religion.

Paper says that light is the most common element of description for the mystical experience.

And the most influential books of the New Testament, on which Christianity is actually based, are the writings of Paul, who never met Jesus face to face, never heard him speak, but thanks to a mystical experience on the road to Damascus, suddenly became the world's greatest expert on Christ.

While this response to Zen might appeal to some of a mystical orientation, it would miss what is most important to the vast majority of Christians past and present.

This search has commonly taken mystical, rational, and literary forms, but it is the rational and the literary which are most common in contemporary evangelicalism.

Of course, there are a number of themes that most Christian mystics will touch upon, like the role of love, the relation of love and intellect and of action and contemplation, the role of Christ, the understanding of mystical union, the trinitarian life and ascetical practice.

To her credit she knows, better than most, that the American dream has moved, in these last decades of the 20th century, into a desperate search for the sacred and mystical.

Their ways of doing this are most varied, ranging from a sense of acting in accordance with the «rightness in things» (as in much Chinese religion), through a mystical identification of the deepest self or atman with the cosmic reality or brahma (as in Hinduism), or a «blowing - out» of individual selfhood by sharing in the bliss of Nirvana (as in most varieties of Buddhism), to the sense of fellowship or communion with God found in our own Jewish - Christian religious tradition.

In conclusion to this sketch of Altizer's affirmations we must say a word about his affirmation of the eschatological quality of Christianity which, he holds, most definitively and radically separates Christianity from «religion» in general, and Eastern mystical religion — the essence of «religion» as such — in particular.

Then darkness is considered by most, if not all, mystical writers, to be that which surrounds God, like the Cloud of Unknowing.

One of the most haunting and mystical examples of this is the Good Friday hymn, «Pek - ethronos,» which is Coptic for «Your Throne.»

So much more could be said in this deepening of that most Catholic theme of the Mystical Body of Christ.

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Many people think not; and to account for this slackening impulse in the highest and most complete of human mystical beliefs they argue that the evangelical flowering is ill - adapted to the critical and materialist climate of the modern world.

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Palamas's post-political Mary illustrated a mystical turn, just as the prospects of the Empire grew most dismal.

The idea of God as the Divine Lover appears in most religions, especially the so - called mystical branches.

I doubt that Orthodox faith communities are any easier to abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.

The adjective «mystical» is technically applied, most often, to states that are of brief duration.

It is here, in other words, that one becomes aware of the mystical in its most unencumbered form — not as something uncannily «other» to ordinary experience, but rather as something interwoven into all experiencing.

Stace makes the point that most of our intellectual processes are tied to sensations and images but that in mystical consciousness there are no external sensations at all, for one has gone beyond the level of the consciousness which relies upon such sensory input and of the intellectual processes which demarcate and integrate this sensory input.

«Tibet offers the most extravagant expression of the mystical,» she says, and when people meet the Dalai Lama «you can see on their faces that they're hoping to get this hit that will transcend their lives, take them someplace else.»

What the mystical is most strikingly «other» to is mindings (usually wedded to materialistic imaginaries) that are mesmerized by the Cartesian myth that the world and world - makers can be sharply distinguished and analyzed separately and systematically.

Gnosticism is a world - opposing form of faith in quest of a salvation that can be reached not by an eschatological reversal of the world or by a mystical dissolution and transformation of the world but only by the most radical kind of world - negation.

I am in full sympathy with much of the mystical imagery used by Altizer, perhaps most of all with the idea of «waiting.»

The domain of religion has to do for the most part with other sorts of experience such as the sense of being forsaken, forgiveness, caring for, having courage, sensing an at - one - ness with the universe and many others, including what some call mystical experience.

Stories of this kind have validity, but they also are clearly unreachable by most people and seem to some to have an aura of unreality, although what has been called «the mystical germ» in us max respond positively.

The primary problem with the way communion is practiced in churches today that believe the Lord's Supper is a symbolic memorial is that we have adopted the practices of churches which think it is much more than a symbol but have stripped away most of the mystical significance of the elements.