Sentences with phrase «own 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More and more the nation state superseded Christianity as the object of devotion.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.»

He is the ruler of the church just as He had been the leader of His little band of followers: He is the head (or, we would say, the heart) of the church just as He had been the center of interest and unity among them; He is the object of devotion, even worship, in the church just as He had been the object of His disciples» loyalty.

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.

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

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.

When this is done the faith of Christians is converted into a Christian religion for which Jesus Christ in isolation is the one object of devotion and in which his own testimony, his very character, his Sonship, his relation to the One with whom he is united, are denied.

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

The resulting confusion is similar to the one that appears in political life when a particular democratic society is made the object of a devotion that genuine democracy extends only to humanity, created free and endowed with natural rights prior to any recognition of these facts.

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.

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.»

(d) The need for an «object of devotion,» to use Erich Fromm's phrase.

(e) The need to share a common philosophy of life and object of devotion with a group of one's fellows.

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».

When that confusion does happen «the faith of Christians is converted into a Christian religion for which Jesus Christ in isolation is the one object of devotion».

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

But surely that is a more rational object of devotion.

Discovery of a meaningful philosophy of life and object of devotion is crucial because this is the only way of handling existential anxiety constructively.

Existential anxiety is handled constructively only by a vital religious life, including --(a) a meaningful philosophy of life, (b) a challenging object of devotion, (c) a sense of transcending the earth - boundness of life, (d) a deep experience of trust in God and relatedness to the universe.

Every person needs an object of devotion, something to elicit his loyalty and motivate him to self - investment.

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.

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.»

The Joyce W. Pope Gallery provides the perfect space for smaller traveling exhibitions like Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester and the Creative Mind, Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print, and Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

But mostly Sachs has been preparing for two shows that opened this month: «Objects of Devotion,» at Lower East Side gallery, Sperone Westwater through October 28, and «Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony» at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas through January 7.

2011 El Placer es mas Importante que la Victoria, curated by Miguel Lopez, Tasneem Gallery, Barcelona Community Without Propinquity, curated by Inheritance Projects, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK The Peripatetic School: Itinerant drawing from Latin America, curated by Tanya Barson, The Drawing Room, London Dublin Contemporary, curated by Jota Castro and Christian Viveros Faune, Dublin Contain, Maintain, Sustain, curated by Welmoed Laanstra, Sara Reisman, and Ernesto Santalla, Washington Project for the Arts, Artisphere, Washington Voglio Soltanto Essere Amato, Maga Museum of Art, Gallarte, Italy Anonymous Presence, curated by Yoab Vera, Y Gallery, New Cork Fronteras en Mutacion, curated by Sigismond de Vajay, Centro Cultural de España, Buenos Aires Bruma, organized by Alexander Dellal and Revolver Gallery, 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London S - Files Bienal, curated by Elvis Fuentes, Trinidad Carillo, and Rocio Arranda, Museo del Barrio, New York Heterogénea, Centro Cultural Juan Parra del Riego, Lima Tracing the Unseen Border, curated by Omar Lopez - Chahoud and Ian L. Cofré, La MaMa la Galeria, New York Objects of Devotion and Desire: Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art, curated by Cynthia Hahn, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York Glossolalia 5.0, film screening curated by Cauleen Smith, The Kitchen, New York

Exhibitions include Dos Mundos: Worlds of the Puerto Ricans 1973, Mira, Mira, Mira, Museum of the City of New York 1974, Ten Japanese Artists, 1975; Legacy of James Vanderzee, 1977; Sacred Artifacts: Objects of Devotion, 1982; Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent, 1985; Repulsion: Aesthetics of the Grotesque, 1987; Foreign Affairs: Conflicts in the Global Village, 1988; Dia De Los Muertos, 1988; Prisoners of Image: Ethnic and Gender Stereotyping, 1989; Mon Reve: Haiti after the Duvaliers, 1989; Artists of Conscience, 1992; Peoples Choice: Komar & Melamid, 1994; Expansion Arts, I, II, III, 1995 - 1998; (Mickey) Mouse: An American Icon, 1998; The Artists as Patron, 1999; Honeymoon Series by Yoshio Itagaki, 2000; Between the Real and the Unreal: Recent works by Simen Johan, 2000, Genochoice an installation by Virgil Wong, 2000.

Tom Sachs / solo exhibition «Objects of Devotion» Sperone Westwater, New York, USA September 5 — October 28, 2017 http://tomiokoyamagallery.com/?p=7865&preview=true

★ Museum of Biblical Art: «Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum» (closes on Sunday) This beautiful exhibition presents 60 extraordinarily gripping alabaster sculptures carved by anonymous English artisans from 1380 to 1530.

The Tyler Museum of Art (TMA) is pleased to announce the opening of Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum on view September 4 through November 13, 2011 at the TMA.

Sarah Cascone lists Tom Sachs's «Objects of Devotion» among the must - see New York gallery shows this September.

«Objects that arouse, titillate and terrify are all locked up in Tom Sachs» Wunderkammern — cabinets of curiosity the artist has constructed for an exhibition at Sperone Westwater, «Objects of Devotion».»

Not exact matches

Idolatry is making primary and central — treating as the object of ultimate devotion — something unworthy of that status, something other than God.

The love of Radha, the beautiful gopi, who later became a goddess for some cults, and Krishna, the youthful dark deity, who is the object of widespread devotion, is less a story remembered than a random succession of episodes seen and heard, sung and danced.

Krishna in the north become the objects of bhakti's impassioned devotion, and bhakti poetry, brimming with love for the Lord flowers in the vernacular languages which, to some extent, take over from the language of «high» culture, Sanskrit.

You do realize that the definition of a cult is «A system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object.»

The object of supreme devotion has many names — or, perhaps better still, no name at all, for to name is to limit and confine and thus to negate the very ultimacy one seeks to affirm.

Beliefs or practices that do not express devotion or that refer to objects of less than supreme worth are by this definition not religious.

the object of such devotion.

Nevertheless, Sherburne, his colleagues, and even the particular Whitehead of Process and Reality, in their devotion to rationalizing the meaning of the world, including the world of art objects, fail to appreciate the aesthetic power of the experienced world.

By and large the Eastern religions can be distinguished from Western religions specifically by their emphasis upon the impersonality of the ultimate Object of religious devotion.

All religions are cults (definition alert: a cult is; «a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object») does this definition sound like your religion?

Generally speaking, a god is a supreme object of religious devotion.