Sentences with phrase «mystical vision of»

It is a conversion to the earth, and perhaps to a mystical vision of a united nation, but not to the Christian God.

A mystical vision of Christ emanating from a painting on a church wall and blending into all humanity as well as the universe itself in a highly visionary description of the omnipresence of God as «all - in - all.»

Inspired by the mystical visions of Adrienne von Speyr, Balthasar developed an extraordinarily vivid account of Christ's descent into hell.

He attempts repeatedly to transform the commonplace into the extraordinary not unlike Charles Burchfield, whose focus on his immediate and humble surroundings is transformed into mystical visions of nature.

, whose focus on his immediate and humble surroundings is transformed into mystical visions of nature.

And all revolves around his mystical visions of ghetto New York.

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On the other hand, there may be those who can come to contemplate what the mystical writers have styled «the stark vision of God in himself.»

He promises neither ecstasy nor spiritual peace; the Kingdom of God is not the object of occult vision and mystical raptures.

On the way he uncovers some treasures which have been underused in criticism, such as Tolkien's description of a mystical experience he had while attending a Forty Hours devotion, an experience that fed into his vision of angels and subsequent characterisation of the Elvish in LOTR.

Christian theology is a thinking response to the Word that is present upon the horizon of faith, and thus it is neither a systemization of a mythical vision nor a metaphysical or mystical system.

Mystical vision helps us to see ourselves as part of a spiritual fellowship that knows no barriers.

The exponents of mystical religion have emphasized the «ineffable» or indescribable and indefinable character of their mystic vision.

The special kinds of experiences that we would call ecstatic experiences and visions and the like can be mystical, but they need not be.

I wonder, however, if it will be sustained without a sense of human unity that the mystical vision inspires.

As Vergote remarks quite accurately «The religious content of mystical visions is not different from the content of faith; figurative representations are derived from natural perceptions., As far as revelation is concerned, visions add absolutely nothing.

It is true that Dostoevsky personally assented — despite occasional episodes of doubt — to the creeds of the ancient church, and that he believed deeply in the mystical and sacramental traditions of the Orthodox church, and that in general his vision of things was shaped by traditional Christian understandings of sin and redemption.

She has brought him to the very brink of that final mystical vision shared by all the redeemed, she has prepared him to look upon the face of God.

This was also the principle of the Brothers of Waldo (at Lyons) and of those heretical movements — Joachimites, Brothers of the Poor Life, etc. — which preached true evangelical communism, practiced absolute nonviolence, and declared that apocalyptic visions had revealed that the «poor and pure religious orders will bring in the mystical government of the world.»

We must note, however, that it has been Western scholarship which has unraveled the depths and subtleties of the Oriental mystical vision; or, at least, it has been Western thinkers who have succeeded in translating the exotic language of Eastern mysticism into the contemporary language of Western experience.

What stood out as an almost mystical vision in the first book, now came down to a kind of a working broad delineation, in a behavioral fashion, to the specific behavior in the universe that was to be designated God.

A very true understanding of mystical experience is contained in the vision of Moses, and his needing the protection of God lest he die, even in the vision of «My hinder parts».

This corrosion of faith can be answered and reversed but in order to do so we must, as Holloway says, realise «the need for personal prayer, penance, humility, and union with God by meditation and mystical communion,» [10] so that thereby the Word of God will be manifested in our world not as «the breath of any imaginary pale Galilean, but the splendour and dynamism of God in the power of the Spirit,» Jesus Christ «the bringer in of the enormous vision that is splendid, the majesty of the Intellect of God and of Man, the fullness of the Kingdom on Earth which God has made for Man, and can bring to consummation only in and through His creature, Man.»

Or is there an alternative to the Father God of the prophets and the Mother Goddess of the archaic and mystical visions?

The best comic - book movie in a long time, though based on no comic, Lucy is a film that mates classic Besson with Quentin Tarantino in a go at the mystical, world - solving vision found in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

As chieftain, the Panther is entitled to eat a special heart - shaped herb, as well as his mystical connection with the Wakandan Panther God, that grants him superhumanly acute senses (especially eyesight, night vision, and sense of smell) and increases his strength, speed, stamina, and agility to the peak of human development.

Captain America (Chris Evans) brings the mystical Vision (Paul Bettany) to Black Panther's (Chadwick Boseman) nation of Wakanda for safekeeping (since he carries one of the prized stones in his forehead), along with the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen).

With the help of Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård) from the first Avengers movie and both Thor movies, Thor makes his way into a mystical pool that allows him to revisit that vision.

From the mists of a mystical isle to the grime of a decaying city, Gratton and Nesbø retell two of the Bard's best - known plays with refreshing vision and respect for the original tales.

She will be rejoining Phoenix as he visits the island of Khura'in, a mystical land where lawyers are seemingly unnecessary due to the prevalence of spirit mediums who have the ability to conjure visions of the last minutes of a victims life.

Presented in association with Emillions Art, the exhibition will showcase work by six artists to share their visions of the mystical forces that compel humans to take action.

The last two stanzas, in which the experiences of «mystical visions» and ironic disillusionment are simultaneously expressed, especially reflect Bleckner's ironic and transcendental content.

Taking its cue from the multifaceted term «vision» and emphasizing its physical - perceptive, political, supernatural, and mystical aspects, VISION (S): explores the strategies that artists and scholars employ to re-configure our view of the vision» and emphasizing its physical - perceptive, political, supernatural, and mystical aspects, VISION (S): explores the strategies that artists and scholars employ to re-configure our view of the VISION (S): explores the strategies that artists and scholars employ to re-configure our view of the world.

Artist Robert Gober, who previously curated an entire floor of Charles Burchfield for the Whitney, has diligently researched and assembled a room of artwork by Texas bait fisherman and outsider artist Forrest Bess, a strange, reclusive type who showed his abstract paintings with the Betty Parsons Gallery, recorded his mystical visions, subscribed to Jungian theories of gender, and actually performed auto - surgery to render himself a quasi-hermaphrodite.

Her colors are both dark and luminous; sometimes, they remind the viewer of Klee's mystical visions, and sometimes, they look like something much more contemporary — such as the paintings of Terry Winters.