Sentences with phrase «nature of worship»

It will be recalled that in describing the nature of worship, in its most general sense, we found that there were five elements which form the action of the believer in his cultic approach to deity: Adoration, or praise; thanksgiving; acknowledgement of failure or sin; prayer for others; prayer for oneself.

On the nature of worship, one of Shaw's frequent themes, he makes three points.

It is now necessary for us to consider more particularly the nature of worship, both in its general sense and in the specifically Christian one.

I do not understand what all of this conflict over the nature of his worship is about.

They differed as to the nature of worship and the way it should be performed.

They are liturgies that do not reinforce the corporate nature of worship because they do not arise from the shared syntax of communal life which most Christians have deeply etched in them, waiting to be evoked each time they gather.

Not exact matches

He argues that monotheism by its very nature admits the confession of faith only in the one God of Israel, so that the worship of other gods is suppressed — along with their worshippers, if necessary.

It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.

For Evangelical Christians, worshipping God in spirit and truth would surely require accepting his essential nature as one undivided God revealed in three persons, including the Son of God.

Now... if you'd like to discuss the nature of an omnipotent being who finds it necessary to coerce bows out of his own creations, and whether or not such a being deserves to be worshipped by anyone or anything, we can certainly discuss that.

In fact, they take theism to an extreme and portray Kim Jong Un as a living god who demands obedience and worship because of his divine nature.

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

They need a religion that helps them respect differences (like the Hindu philosophy that we all find a path to the truth, independent of what god we worship), or the Buddhist philosophy of improving ourselves and working with our community (independent of gods and dogma), or the native religions that respect nature and it's boundaries.

Well, there will always be a tension between those who hold a nature - worshiping Pollyanna view of primitive society and want it preserved, vs. those who see the exact same thing and are compelled to help alleviate the suffering of treatable diseases, fear, ignorance, malnutrition exploitation by unscrupulous «moderns» and environmental degradation.»

Genesis, on the other hand, portrays the One God who has created all that which surrounding people worship as the divinities of nature.

Christians of course worship Jesus as God and the embodiment and revelation of His nature.

Genesis, over against this viewpoint, affirms (1) that there is only one God; (2) that this God is not identified with or contained by any region of nature; (3) that the pagan gods and goddesses are not divinities at all but creatures, creations of the one true God; and (4) that the worship of any of these false divinities is idolatry.

Inevitably, in the course of a pastoral career, one encounters that person — the spouse of an active member, or an avid golfer — who claims not to need to attend weekly services because «I can worship God in nature.»

We have seen the nature of the true worship of Islam; in considering the dealings we shall be concerned with the dealings within the Muslim community — the family, monetary affairs, relations with fellow Muslims, and government — and dealings with non-Muslims both as individuals and nations.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

A paper that thinks hermaphrodite rights one of the important questions of our time, a paper that editorially endorses the worship of the great nature goddess Gaia, a paper that advocates the demonstration of condoms to fourth graders in public school, a paper that condemns as religious fanatics those who favor the protection of the unborn, a paper that derides as extremist the views of a majority of Americans and of two Presidents they elected, this is simply not a serious paper.

Stop trying to sugarcoat the nature of the thing you worship.

It shows how the study of the Law is superior to the compelling attractions of any religion centered in the worship of nature (i.e., the nature deities of Israel's neighbors, the sun god, storm god, etc.) with a hymn celebrating the manifestation of God in nature (as his creation) in the first six verses, counterbalanced by verses which praise the Mosaic Law as God's revelation of his will (vv.

You seldom find people worshiping a sun or moon god, or nature spirits, or gods of the ocean, gods of death, war, etc..

Concern for nature is associated with the Canaanite religion against which the worship of Yahweh is defined.

Ecological critics have nostalgically lamented the decline of «nature worship» and have spoken wistfully of the need to import «Eastern» concepts of pantheism or quietist respect for the «equality of all life.»

Religion, as an idea has been with us before recorded history from early man's worshiping of nature to Charlemagne's murder of the innocent in the name of Christianity, to jets crashing into towers in the name of Islam.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

As far as the former is concerned we find a considerable amount of variableness in the nature, intensity, and color of the unifying, basic religious experience, shades or differences in theoretical (belief, myth, doctrine) and practical (worship, activities) expression.

He taught, «One is Christ the Son of God, worshipped by all in two natures.

Nor is that parallel nothing more than an interesting accident; I believe that it is a parallel so profound and so revealing that it gives us insight into the nature of the Eucharist as the chief piece of Christian worship while it also provides us with the clue as to how the gospel which is proclaimed can become the life - giving reality of the Christian tradition down the ages to the present day.

We worship a lot of things down here on planet earth (new gadgets, nature, etc.)... seems to me that if we were to actually behold (there's a word I don't normally use) God and heaven, we would not be able to look at Him because He would be so beyond anything we could imagine and so holy.

Fundamentalism, he said, «represents a mind - set confined within one Prophet, one Book, a single way of worship» which by nature led to the «concept of believers going to heaven and nonbelievers going to hell, with a religious duty cast upon its followers to convert the rest by any means whatsoever» (Indian Express?

some one stop me I'm falling back to the ice age and cave drawing oh no heresy i can see Mitochondrial Eve now and what she worshiping a carving of Nature under an elder tree 200,000 years ago in Eden

Before that Axial Period, each ethnic group had evolved its own culture and language, with its own distinctive way of understanding the world and worshipping the forces of nature.

The rational theists wanted to marvel at the orderly course of nature without worshiping it or supposing it to be the activity of a cosmic Thou, open to the influence of sacrifice and prayer.

In this final chapter we will consider the nature of spirituality, the sacred, the role of worship, different forms of prayer, the integration of our work world into our faith, the nature and purpose of the Church, and where we go from here.

Where a group of people, by virtue of belonging to a political, cultural, or ethnic unit, actual or fictitious, is barred from partial or full participation in worship or from carrying out honorary or other functions of a religious nature, there is differentiation according to descent.

Miller suggests practical applications — engaging in dialogue, clarifying the nature of the Gospel, and developing worship and education.

They do often worship out in nature, and tend to follow the ancient beliefs and practices of Nordic mythology.

A brief consideration of the new spirituality which we need to encompass the whole of life, along with a look at the sacred, worship, prayer, work, and the nature of the Church.

Paganism in a nutshell, is the deification of the creaTION (Nature worship).

The religions of Canaan, ornate as they were with divine symbols in public worship and private shrines, were in large measure characterized by the features of so - called nature worship.

For example, «It is no certain sign that the religious affections which persons have are such as have in them the nature of true religion, or that they have not, that they dispose persons to spend much time in religion, and to be zealously engaged in the external duties of worship.

Whitehead's concept of God, including both God's primordial nature and his consequent nature, is important because it achieves the need both for a religiously available God and a God worthy of worship.

New insights derived from understanding the nature of God in terms of this perception of reality produce a picture of God that is more consistent with the requirements of those who worship (i.e., a religious God) than traditional concepts about God.

Man's greedy impulse to exploit nature used to be held in check by his pious worship of nature.6

The gods of nature were the chief objects of their worship and veneration.

I was heartened to read James Tolhurst's article on «The Nature of Heresy» (July 2009) and only wished he had expounded further at length and also got right back to first principles quoting St. Augustine of Hippo and the great St. Paul that the inimical core of all heresy is: «worshipping the creature rather than the Creator.»

It is entirely appropriate, therefore, that both the Christian rite of initiation into the community of faith and the chief Christian action of worship should have this sacramental nature.