Sentences with phrase «notion of sacrifice»

Chiurai is one of the most prominent young artists emerging from the African continent, creating work that powerfully interrogates a contemporary African notion of sacrifice, though not enquiring into its necessity.

Taste buds appreciate the deliciousness of other flavors and the notion of sacrifice is gone.

The notion of sacrifice is one of the essential keys to Christian doctrine and to Christian living.

It strikes at the heart of marriage and at the very notion of sacrifice.

A similar fad appears when thinking about the notion of sacrifice.

Nathanson blends the notions of sacrifice and murder into a neat package of potential power.

Its true you receive ADAM at a much slower rate (albeit a steadier one) than you would if you harvested the children, but I found the notion of sacrificing these children for the sake of a tonic or plasmid absolutely sickening.

Not exact matches

I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide, human sacrifice, and child murder should not be arbitrarily invoked as the sole determinate for notions of morality in the modern world.

But the Protestant Reformers explicitly rejected the notion of the Mass as sacrifice.

First, Protestants wanted to reject completely any possible notion that the original sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross could or should be repeated in any form 1n order to make it efficacious for the salvation of men.

Thus the notion of eucharistic sacrifice is not confined to the specific point of actual death; it includes the whole of the event of which Jesus is the center.

Theoretical notions of «church» and «community,» «commitment» and «sacrifice» are tested every day, providing constant opportunities for me to deliberately choose faith (or something quite like it) over doubt.

Transposed into an ethical mode, this contextual quality of the Christian notion of incarnation entails an adaptive self - giving, a presenting of our bodies as «living sacrifices.»

The third component of the notion of pure sacrifice is the idea that subjectivity itself is constituted through the «persecution» of my consciousness by the demands of the vulnerable other.

The Marian theology (especially Wagner's suggested conflation of the goddess Venus with Mary), the knight asking for absolution from the pope, the theme of «works righteousness,» the notion that Tannhäuser is saved by Elisabeth who both sacrifices herself for him on this earth and then in the afterlife intercedes before God on his behalf, and the fact that Tannhäuser himself is redeemed only to die» all these are, to the conservative Protestant at least, distortions of Christianity.

We have already noted in the Fourth Gospel traces of the earlier apocalyptic notion of a victorious conflict with the powers of this world and now we are observing indications of the conception of Christ's death as sacrifice for sin.

Mosse suggests that «the characteristics of the Catholic saints, like the Hindu deities of the village, are in part defined in their relation with other superior and inferior forms of the divinity around the notion of the bivalent sacrifice.»

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

The notion that man must surrender his dearest possession on earth to his deity — the supreme instance is that of child sacrifice — is so fundamental that it can not be dismissed as mythology.

He may wring from them the least toxic results possible; nevertheless, the complaint is made, the premises themselves will continually lend support to abusive notions of self - sacrifice and surrogate suffering.

These days, many object to the notion of Jesus» death as a substitutionary sacrifice, a vicarious assumption of the punishment that humans deserve.

As a culture, we seem to operate under the misguided notion that attachment - style parenting is one in which parents — and particularly mothers — sacrifice their lives entirely for the good of their children, and compete over who can breastfeed the longest and make the most nutritious baby food.

The notion that being female means self - sacrifice and always putting someone else's needs before your own isn't going to be something we can shrug off in a generation after centuries of reinforcement.

Running the most effective and efficient operation is not the same as conducting a crude cost - cutting exercise that sacrifices all notions of standards,» he added.

She added that 50 % of young people in Greece left unemployed were being «sacrificed in the interests of the Euro»: «This notion that the European Union is this great paragon of social justice, think again.»

In terms of cheap date ideas, a buffet table is the honourable shrine of failure, sacrificing any notion of class for a # 10 menu and limitless coke refills.

Reflections of a Science Teacher Sandra McCarron dismisses the notion of a rubric for thinking, believes that a successful classroom starts out with a vision and ponders the merits of science fairs that have been sacrificed to make way for education reforms on her blog, Reflections of a Science Teacher.

Khos aims to turn the traditional notion of a business hotel on its head - designed specifically for the modern business traveller, for whom the conventional boundaries of work and play no longer exist, and who is no longer willing to sacrifice style, inspiration, socialising and wellness for the predictable functionality of a traditional business hotel.

Wakatobi embraces the notion of eco tourism and to this end, where possible local products and craftsmanship are used, giving the whole place an authentic feel without sacrificing any creature comforts..

There is a romantic notion of Michelangelo as a «solitary and self - sacrificing genius.»

Khwezi Gule, Chief Curator at the Soweto Museums, will delve into the crisis of meaning around ritual, sacrifice, and transcendence in addition to notions of self and collective preservation.

Safina is writing about the notion of having to make sacrifices for the betterment of the planet and for society:

Re # 46 and # 49: Unfortunately, FactCheck.org has a history of getting its facts wrong, and of apparently sacrificing truth for some odd notion of balance.

Parents are also encouraged to recognize that their children have a pre-conceived notion of the ugliness and devastation that divorce typically has on children, and to send a message to their children that this will be different for them, and that their parents are willing to make sacrifices to insure that while the family transitions, the children will be loved and supported by both parents.

In particular, according to the notion of socio - emotional selectivity, when people feel dislocated from their future (Bartels & Rips, 2010), and thus perceive their identity as transient, they are not as willing to sacrifice their pleasure now and invest in the future (Carstensen, 2006).