Sentences with phrase «own sacred symbols»

Canada has even been trusted to provide ten years of custody to two of China's most sacred symbols, the pandas.

I'd burn both, and a US flag, and a crucifex, and the Upanishads, and any other holy book or sacred symbols.

There is certainly no dearth of private spaces readily available for the public display of sacred symbols» churches, synagogues, religious schools, private lawns, and store fronts...

These groups are not substitutes for the total life of the congregation in worship and witness; but they may be a most important means of breaking through rigidities and opening up a frank discussion where there will be no fear of probing sacred symbols and doctrines.

In fact, the ichthus or «fish,» which became the sacred symbol found repeatedly on the walls of the catacombs where the persecuted Christians took refuge, is an acronym formed from the first letters of the Greek words for «Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.»

After the pope departed the nuns wanted to place the sacred symbol inside the gate of the camp as a symbol of God's love... however, The Jewish community was in an up roar... for they felt that in this place God was not!

It makes known the works of God by way of the sacred symbols [the sacraments] and it prepares the postulants to contemplate and participate in the holy sacraments.

a) Verses I - 13 is a narrative account of the actual liturgy of dedication and the movement of the ark, Israel's most sacred symbol, into the temple.

It is the footstool of God, the most sacred symbol within the veil, within the Holy - of - Holies.

In Mother Theresa, Hitchens recognized perhaps the greatest living icon of Christianity, charity personified — a sacred symbol he sought to profane.

There are no Christ figures in his works (except perhaps George Caldwell in The Centaur) or other sacred symbols; and when the Christian church is portrayed, it usually comes off as an archaic, lifeless institution, run by inept, bungling, morally and spiritually bankrupt clergy.

This mercy - seat is the footstool of Yahweh, the most sacred symbol within the holy - of - holies, behind the veil of the tabernacle - temple.

For me, they have become a sacred symbol of my devotion to my practice of yoga and my journey through the Yoga Therapy program.

Like the film, black figures the focal point of Ikiré's collections styled in adorned in royal robes, crowns with sacred symbols and jewels.

Mia floated through, enjoying her unique perch of hearing a patois of French, Catalan, Spanish and English as we soaked up the yellow - pink - light - from - within stone on the arches, and fountain, and the carved sacred symbols on walls all across the monastery.

A slight detour takes you to the ancient petroglyph site, where mysterious carvings surround a freshwater pool at the base of a waterfall — archaeologists believe them to be sacred symbols carved by Taino Indians over 1,000 years ago.

These are seamlessly integrated into narratives that tell the stories of the sacred symbols of indigenes societies and the ravages of war.»

Not exact matches

They also often return to the sacred stories and symbols of their religious heritage but without being stuck in a theological box.

Horned animals are sacred for a variety of cultural reasons but the root of sacred horned animals seems to come from the resemblance of their heads to the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes of human women, and the animals are usually associated with fertility and female symbols.

In his essay «The Religious Meaning of Myth and Symbol,» Altizer continues this same theme: «The sacred can be actualized only by means of a dissolution of profane existence.

On the one hand, any rite possesses perceptible signs and symbols that the artist may pluck from the temporal flow and convert into permanent images: light, water, incense, bodily gestures, garments and sacred spaces may inhabit the canvas or fill the fresco.

For the clown is a most ambiguous figure, and in his very ambiguity a most appropriate symbol for the ambiguity of the sacred and for the double - rhythm which this ambiguity requires.

Religion layers all that fear in symbols and sacred taboos.

The cow — which is regarded as sacred and wanders freely in most parts of India — is a symbol of this.

When sprinkled on the altar and on the worshipers, blood became to the Hebrews a symbol of their sacred covenant with Yahweh.

Do not blaspheme, dishonor and profane the sacred persons, symbols or rituals central to the religion 4.

The modern tendency to deconstruct and demythologize religion has deprived it of its rich myths, symbols and rituals — and of a sense of the sacred imbued in the ordinary.

Simply to raise these questions in the context of our time and situation is to recognize the possibility that the death of God — i.e., the dissolution of all images and symbols of an original sacred, and the collapse of a sacred or transcendent realm underlying this dissolution — is a culminating expression of the forward movement of the Incarnation.

The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.

The symbol of the sacred in language is related to the configurations (and therefore to the visible images) of the cosmos.

Literal - minded Moslems have, no doubt, often enough taken these as literal pictures of the future life just as Christians have taken literally the pictures of immortal existence as given in their sacred book; but many Moslems, like many Christians, believe that these words are but symbols through which the Prophet attempts to give some conception of the life hereafter, which he obviously believes may be one of bitter judgment or of supernal delight.

It means that Jesus elevates the relationship between a man and a woman in the order of creation, making it into a flesh and blood living symbol of His love for His Church, «a sign of a sacred thing.»

The use of sacred Christian and Moslem symbols and concepts with the purpose of stirring up enmity and provoking conflict between religions is a sin and an illegality in the face of God.

We are first brought to an explicit sense of sacred mystery through sacraments or symbols.

Nevertheless, people are first brought to an explicit sense of sacred mystery through sacraments or symbols.

Even if the priests can preside over some of the revered symbols [sacraments], a priest could not perform the sacred divine birth [baptism] without the divine ointment [the oils consecrated by the bishop], nor could he perform the mystery of Holy Communion without having first placed on the altar the symbols of that Communion.

Unfortunately, in the vigorous rejection of anything that smacked of magical sacramentalism many Protestants have lost the awareness of the valid role of sacraments and sacred ceremonies as living symbols (that is, communicators of meanings).

The rites are images of the power of the divinity, by which the hierarchs perfect the holiest of symbols and all the sacred ranks.

Like all symbols, myths, sacred texts, objects and ideas, they are not the truth.

Holding this pagan idolatrous symbol as sacred goes against what the Christ taught.

down to rest by the hallowed Ganges, propped his feet upon a sacred lingam, the symbol of Shiva.

The mythical symbol structure gave meaning to all activities, and thus the whole of life participated in the sacred.

Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe.»

This tendency to look for fixed meanings, authoritative images, sacred words, divine revelation, ultimate moral norms, the truth, is finally the expression of our own insecurity with human relativity and a symbol of our desperate need for security.

In Chapter 1 I have attempted to summarize the main points of Berger's argument, showing how it provides a useful way of understanding the extent to which sacred and nonsacred realities alike are constructed collectively with symbols; I then suggest some features of religion in contemporary society that seem to make sense in these terms.

Each one of these new valorizations is possible because from the beginning the symbol of the Cosmic Tree reveals itself as a «cipher» of the world grasped as a living reality, sacred and inexhaustible.

Hence, his deep concern for burying once and for all both God and church in order to align his loyalties fully with Christ — the symbol for the sacred at work in human history — as he is becoming present «in every human hand and face.»

Ancient Egyptians farmed honey 3,000 years ago and considered bees the symbol of sacred femininity.

One of the Indians took off his jacket, a hand - woven garment of blue, embroidered with sacred pagan symbols.

Many of the letters themselves contain sacred sounds and symbols, such as the om (above left), which is said to hold the primordial sound of the universe and live within everyone.