Sentences with phrase «mystical union»

The essence of the New Testament lay in the religious life it portrayed; its high - watermark was the experience of mystical union with Christ, in whom God took symbolic form.

Prophetic religions have often been sharply contrasted with Asian religions because the former seem to be less interested in mystical union than the latter.

Rathey shows how Bach repeatedly used love duets to describe mystical union throughout his vocal works.

«When Emerson advised the solitary individual to seek mystical union with the Divine in the woods,» writes Stoll, «he simply restated long - standing Calvinist advice.»

Mystical union takes to the airwaves in lyrics of romantic ecstasy, and cable television presents discussions of sacramental piety in the format pioneered by the «Tonight» show.

That Whitehead spoke poetically, used metaphor, alluded to Oriental wisdom and was known to his students because of remarks on term - papers, to consider mystical union with the divine to be beyond exact expression in words, gave him the full majesty of a magus.

And just as we can ponder on the Unity Law on many levels throughout creation, and marvel at God's work either in simplicity of principle or in great depth of detail, so too in the rosary we can contemplate the Mystery of Christ at many levels, from the childlike words of trust and confidence contained in the prayers themselves, through meditation on the mysteries of our Lord's loving work for us, to the heights of mystical union with the Mind and Heart of Christ.

Mystical union with God.

«Therefore that joining together of head and members, that indwelling of Christ in our hearts — in short that mystical union — are accorded by us the highest degree of importance.»

He writes about our mystical union with Christ, particularly in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

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.

How do you answer the charge that Eckhart's theology of mystical union, in which the soul achieves «indistinction» and becomes one with God, is really a form of self - deification?

There are two common types of religious experience which Ninian Smart has traced among world religions: numinous encounter (associated with worship) and mystical union (associated with meditation).13 Numinous encounter received its classic description in Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy.

In the mystical union of democratic solidarity we are fused into a single, all - powerful paterfamilias.

The boy is looking for a mystical union with infinity.

Dysart looks unconsciously for a mystical union with infinity.

John Crowder - Mystical Union.

Despite John Nevin's resistance to Charles Finney and the revivalist stream of Reformed Christianity in America, I find Mercersburg attractive because of the focus on a mystical union that is experiential and the refusal to allow Old - Princeton theologians like Charles Hodge to be the final arbiters of Reformed theology in the 19th century.

Expressing as they do the different ways in which the Triune life of God flows into the soul, they both facilitate the mystical union with Christ in the power of the Spirit.

Nevin's focus on a mystical union in which the Spirit fills the Incarnate Son and then fills the Church with this same presence moved him away from penal substitution and toward a Christus victor notion of the atonement.

Christian moral thinking has accepted this and has given marriage a special blessing, surrounding it with the aura of divine approval even if it has not always realistically grasped the fact that marriage is not inevitably an ideal state and that to insist on its continuance when love is absent is to condone what in effect is legalized rape and hence hardly an appropriate symbol for the Christian idea of marriage as representing «the mystical union of Christ and his Church.»

Mystical union.

It is rightly spoken of as «holy matrimony,» and as the time - honored ritual for its solemnizing has it, marriage is an honorable estate, instituted of God, and signifying unto us the mystical union which exists between Christ and his Church; which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence in Cana of Galilee.

They would then dance circle dances before the altar, symbolizing the mystical union with the dead, with God and with Christ.

A conception of marriage that allows for same - sex unions denies this element of difference, rendering it unable to signify the mystical union of Christ and his Church.

Instead of lust there is mystical union.

The Mystical Union is so dreamy.