Sentences with phrase «object of devotion»

Just as no religious forms are fully adequate to the supreme object of devotion, so also do all persons fall short of complete religious dedication.

For many others, traditional theological symbols are blocks to the discovery of their own object of devotion and workable philosophy of life.

But surely that is a more rational object of devotion.

It is possible to confront existential anxiety only to the extent that one has achieved a viable personal religion, including a meaningful philosophy of life, a challenging object of devotion (and self - investment), a sense of mystery and transcendence, and a deep - level experience of basic trust in God, oneself, others, and life.

As this story becomes our own, and as we grapple in our lives with this true object of devotion, our identities and practical stances are criticized and reconstructed.

Yet of all that I have seen none is more pestilential, senseless or shameless than the one he entitles The Abrogation of the Mass, for in it he tries utterly to destroy the sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ, which the Church has ever held to be most salutary, and the chief object of devotion to all the faithful of Christ.

At the same time, all of us can be enriched and inspired by central aspects of Cobb's «earthist» theology and ethics, most notably his central claim that «the Earth is a far more inclusive and suitable object of devotion than Christianity, a nation, or economic growth.»

To show that nonetheless Jesus was both a credible founder of Christianity and the continuing object of devotion, critical historiography had to show his truly heroic quality, usually by contrasting him with his Jewish heritage and environment.

2005 — Exhibition of rare deities and objects of devotion including museum quality Buddha's, prayer wheels, and paintings at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles

New York, NY: Sperone Westwater is pleased to present Objects of Devotion, Tom Sachs's fourth solo show at the gallery, showcasing the artist's radical expansion of the category of sculpture and his restless curiosity about our «culture of making.»

Augustine once offered this ethical prescription, «Love God and do as you please,» by which he meant that a person who is really devoted to the good experiences no conflict between desire and duty, for his wants have been transformed to accord with the supreme object of devotion.

There is a pleasure in literary peek - a-boo, but devotional works just plain fail when the writer comes between the worshiper and the object of devotion.

The logical outcome, therefore, of his type of individualism was universalism, with the center of value and the object of devotion shifted from special race or nation to personality wherever found and within whatever social group in corporated.

More and more the nation state superseded Christianity as the object of devotion.

He points to the crucial distinction between growth - inhibiting and growth - enabling religion: «There is no one without a religious need, need to have a frame of orientation and an object of devotion... The question is not religion or not but which kind of religion, whether it is one furthering man's [sic]

Only such an awareness can give depth and height dimensions to what Fromm calls one's «frame of orientation and object of devotion.»

The frequent presence of a «value vacuum» (Frankl) in the personality and relationship problems brought to counselors emphasizes Erich Fromm's conviction that every human being needs a «system of thought and action shared by a group which gives the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion.»

Religious groups satisfy the need for «an object of devotion,» or what Tillich calls «the dimension of ultimate concern.»

If Jesus is not glorious, if He is fallible just like you and me, He has no right to be glorified, and He has no right to the object of devotion.

A classic illustration of this was noted in the Bhagavad Gita, where Krishna is the object of devotion.

Finding an «object of devotion» that really matters brings a new aliveness to an individual.

What we can mean by that does not seem to be what certain theologians seem to think, that apart from Jesus Christ we do not acknowledge God at all, for we do acknowledge him with perhaps all of our human companions in the distrust manifest in fear, hostility and evasion; yet we do not acknowledge him as God, as the supreme object of our devotion, as the faithful one in whom we trust, as the one in whose kingdom we are bound to loyalty to all our fellow citizens in creation.

Its object of devotion, economic growth, became the virtually universal object of devotion among the nations of the world.

Indeed, it might be said that we shall be less excellent Americans or Britons or Frenchmen, less admirable members of the human race as a whole, if we are content with an object of devotion less than Almighty God himself.

Practically, the object of devotion was Christianity, not God.

A religious approach is the time - tested way of satisfying what Erich Fromm has called the universal human need for a «system of thought and action shared by a group which gives the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion.»

Furthermore, it distinguishes theological inquiry from intellectual activities that may be motivated by love of God and neighbor but that abstract their objects from their God - relatedness, «focusing attention on some part or aspect of creation without making them objects of devotion».

It is a «theistic» religion in the sense that it has an object of devotion, although this is not personal.

@Chad, «If you accept @saraswati's assertion that one can be religious without the object of that devotion being a deity, then atheism is certainly a religion with devoted followers.»

Traditionally, the tika marks the dog as both a devotee of the righteous path and as an object of devotion, imbuing the dog with an air of sacredness and acting as a blessing to those who encounter the dog during Kukur Tihar.

The tika marks the dog as both a devotee of the righteous path and as an object of devotion.