Sentences with phrase «mystical elements which»

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In the lowliness of fear and the thrill of danger we carry on the work of completing an element which the mystical body of Christ can draw only from us.

They have been stirred together in a mortar, and the two elements have completely neutralized each other in a compound which is neither history nor interpretation, but mystical rhapsody and poetry of devotion, not so much a theology as a half - Gnostic Christian theosophy — history turned inside out in order to reveal its inner meaning, but ceasing to be history in the process.

Schweitzer's ethical mysticism begins with a reflective observation of the finite world («I am urge - to - life»), moves to an empirical generalization («in the midst of other wills - to - live»), is made cosmic by an intuitive insight, which is the completing or mystical element of thought («all is part of a cosmic or universal will - to - live»), and returns to the finite for experiential verification in ethical participation («Ethics alone can put me in true relationship with the universe by my serving it, cooperating with it; not by trying to understand it... It is through community of life, not community of thought, that I abide in harmony... [«The Ethics of Reverence for Life,» Christendom, Vol.

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.

Hirst cleverly weaves a mystical element into the plot, which pays off with each episode.