Sentences with phrase «mystery out of religion»
I like what you said here Carol «Actually, magical thinking takes the mystery out of religion and puts the believer back in control».
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Similarly, when it comes to religion we seek out the secrets of the «tricks», the theological slight of hand, the play on people's ego and greed, the truth behind the mystery.
Eating the flesh and drinking the blood have overtones of the Lord's Supper, and many scholars have tried to point out in these words the influence of the mystery religions, which often spoke about eating the body of the dying and rising savior god.
The myth of a mystery religion (or the symbol of the comparative - religious school) could only point Out what ought to be; as the «law» of the Hellenistic world it would simply be a new legalism ending like the Jewish law in despair (Rom.
The theology of the early church was forged out in the context of the mystery religions, polytheism, Gnosticism, cults such as Manichaeism, and the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism and neo-Platonism.