Sentences with phrase «of damascene»

It was an event of damascene revelation for me.

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[27] John Damascene or of Damascus (657 - 749) monk and theologian, 2 On the Virtues and the Vices, (in The Philokalia).
How many of our people, indeed how many of us in the ordained ministry, really understand that prayer is essentially what St. Thomas Aquinas, following St. John Damascene, said it is: «the elevation of the mind to God»?
He then gives cites Jerome, Basil, and Damascene as examples of this use of conscience, and concludes: «we customarily designate causes and effects by one another.»
The combination with dates seems to give it something slightly more indulgent and I'll be bookmarking this recipe to be able to use it for when the Damascene moment arrives... (probably, like for you, with a pile of dates) Thank you for co-hosting FF — have a good one!
The MP for Huddersfield explained his Damascene conversion: «I started looking at the evidence and research, and rather than bringing life into the regions, it would suck more life out of the regions into London and the south - east.
Our last subject in the race for the 36th Council District seat is the Rev. Conrad Tillard, formerly known as Conrad Muhammad, formerly known as Conrad X. Reverend Tillard first came to public attention as the chief youth minister of the Nation of Islam, and then the minister of Harlem's famed Mosque No. 7, the former seat of Malcolm X. Reverend Tillard made some conventionally controversial remarks against white devils and Jewish slave masters, etc. from that esteemed perch, was later stripped of his ministry under a cloud of suspicion, and then underwent a second Damascene moment when he left the NOI and returned to the faith of his fathers, receiving baptism by the Reverend Calvin Butts.
Not that Corybn is alone on the issue — Jeremy Hunt, disastrously enough, used to be of the same persuasion before he had a sudden Damascene conversion upon becoming health secretary.
In the end it is difficult not to be delighted at the appearance of this seemingly Damascene conversion to the political centre.
But not all of his colleagues were convinced by their leader's Damascene conversion.
And then in 1954 Churchill has this damascene moment when he read of the appalling, utterly appalling destructiveness of the hydrogen bomb.
O'Brien worked in mainstream schools for five years before moving into special education — and with the self - flagellating humility of a convert, in his book describes himself as having been «blissfully unaware and completely uninterested» in the sector before what appears to have been his Damascene awakening.
MADRID Welcome and farewell dinners; guided sightseeing, visit the Prado MuseumSEGOVIA Take pictures of the Roman aqueductAVILA Visit the walled townSALAMANCA Orientation walk; [LF] wine tasting, dinner, and overnight stay at Hacienda ZoritaFATIMA Visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the RosaryLISBON Guided sightseeing, visit the Alfama quarter and Jeronimos MonasteryAZARUJA [LF] Visit a cork factorySEVILLE Guided sightseeing, visit the Casa de Pilatos, walk through the Santa Cruz quarterALGECIRAS - TANGIER By ferry across the Strait of GibraltarTANGIER Panoramic [LF] drive to Cap Spartel, enjoy mint tea and biscuits; [LF] Moroccan show; guided sightseeing, visit Grand Socco squareCOSTA DEL SOLGRANADA Guided walking tour, visit the Alhambra complex and the Water Gardens of the Generalife; a special dinner at a local restaurantTOLEDO Guided walking tour, visit an early synagogue, the gothic cathedral, and Santo Tom Church with one of El Greco's masterpieces; visit a Damascene steel workshop
MADRID Welcome and farewell dinners; guided sightseeing, visit the Prado MuseumSEGOVIA Take pictures of the Roman aqueductAVILA Visit the walled townSALAMANCA Orientation walk; [LF] wine tasting, dinner, and overnight stay at Hacienda ZoritaFATIMA Visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the RosaryLISBON Guided sightseeing, visit the Alfama quarter and Jeronimos MonasteryAZARUJA [LF] Visit a cork factorySEVILLE Guided sightseeing, visit the Casa de Pilatos, walk through the Santa Cruz quarterALGECIRAS - TANGIER By ferry across the Strait of GibraltarTANGIER Panoramic [LF] drive to Cap Spartel, enjoy mint tea and biscuits; [LF] Moroccan show; guided sightseeing, visit Grand Socco squareCOSTA DEL SOLGRANADA Guided walking tour, visit the Alhambra complex and the Water Gardens of the Generalife; a special dinner at a local restaurantTOLEDO Guided walking tour, visit an early synagogue, the gothic cathedral, and Santo Tomé Church with one of El Greco's masterpieces; visit a Damascene steel workshop
Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.
As was argued here, this fusion of environmentalism and advocacy of nuclear power looks less like a Damascene conversion, and more like a Reformation.
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