Sentences with phrase «mystical encounter»

«2 Seeking the essence of Christianity, Troeltsch threaded his way between arguments for the knowledge of God by linguistic formulation and other arguments that discovered the path in mystical encounter.3 He located the bond between humanity and God in the cultic life of the community.

What is the difference between the mystical encounter and what we think of today as charismatic experiences — if in fact they are distinct?

When you get to the 13th century in The Flowering of Mysticism, the mystical encounter seems to take on a decidedly charismatic expression in which the individual is somehow visibly touched by the divine — Francis being perhaps the prime example of the believer who so puts on Christ that he bears Christ's wounds.

I'm not sure that I could handle reading about an epiphany from «two mystical encounters».

Then on 10th September 1946, at the age of 36, while travelling by train for her annual retreat with her community in Darjeeling, she had a mystical encounter with Jesus in which she heard him say to her, «I thirst.»

When we think of saints, we often picture statues in cathedrals, stained glass, miraculous appearances, and mystical encounters.

Road movie, rumination of the meaning of life and death, shaggy dog story about dealing with a corpse, manual on the best in yoghurt, depiction of the transgressions which break families apart, with its mystical encounters, breath - taking landscape and self - declared Clark Gable lookalike - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is packed with elements that ought to overshadow one another or, at least, confuse.