It is clear that Montanism was built on the search for
personal purity as the surest way to salvation.
The ideal of
personal purity is positive in emphasis.
All three emphasized
personal purity and conversion, a life of diligence in attending to the scriptures, a clear vision of God's kingdom becoming a moral community on earth, and an active inner - worldly approach to social improvement and moral asceticism.
When you hear a Christian advocate
personal purity, do you hear a judgment of yourself or others, or do you get angry because you don't want to live that way and then decide that the Christian's spoken point of view is a judgment?
Though these Judaizers considered themselves to be Christians and professed to know God (Titus 1:16), they believed that Jesus, as a Jew Himself, wanted all His followers to practice and obey the Law of Moses, including the laws of the Sabbath, the laws of circumcision, and the laws of ceremonial and
personal purity.
«I suddenly saw Maria not as a threat to
my personal purity or professionalism, but as a little girl, greatly loved by her Father in heaven... [and that] evil had completely devoured and consumed [her life].
Not exact matches
Besides, he seems to have plenty of people who have up close and
personal experiences with what the
purity culture teaches and what it does, to glean insight from.
The teaching of
purity asks for
personal commitment to God above all other loyalties and calls for self - control in the context of that commitment.
Among other themes, it describes the festival calendars, lists sexual taboos, deals with
personal cultic
purity and presents the Sabbatical and Jubilee cycles.
However, it was a short leap for Paul to begin to use this word with regard to
personal moral
purity, in an attempt to help the church understand the difference between imputed and actual righteousness, a use which he did not have when he wrote Galatians (cf. 5.4), but initiated in his second letter, in 1 Thessalonians 5.23.
«This harmony, that is precisely
purity of heart, enabled man and woman in the state of original innocence to experience simply... the uniting power of their bodies, which was, so to speak, the unsuspected substratum of their
personal union or communio personarum» (ib.
Finally, his humble - mindedness and his ascetic tendencies save him from the petty
personal pretensions which so obstruct our ordinary social intercourse, and his
purity gives us in him a clean man for a companion.
They are Saucha (cleanliness or
personal hygiene, including mental
purity), Santosa (means contentment), Tapas (self discipline), Swadhaya (means self - study, which can mean studying the nature of one's own mind and doing inquiry into one's own reality) and Iswara Pranidhana (which means total acceptance of life, facing all life situations with equanimity.
But that's my
personal opinion because I mean you've got the best athletes in the world who probably have great genetics and somebody can make a
purity argument for, «Well, that's just it.
Forced to start from scratch for the sake of
purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his
personal judgment.
Regardless of the genre, the type of essay writing,
personal narrative style, you should keep in mind general requirements for the essay: - the clarity and
purity of the language (grammatical correctness of the essay writing, correspondence to the English writing standards); - accuracy and brevity (selection of words that correctly convey the thoughts you want to express; absence of redundant words in the sentences); - simplicity and beauty (accessibility for understanding, speech excellence, honesty, the lack of unusual words and standard phrases, etc..)
Moral
purity is a
personal, self - referenced stance, not a coherent strategy, and it can put the brakes on progress in all sorts of reform movements.
Taking a cue from the great impressionists, Gyeongja Lee and Hyemin Lee apply the principles of light, motion, and the
purity of one's
personal recollection, rather than visual accuracy, across distinct artistic media.
Paul Jenkins (1923 - 2012), recognized as one of the leaders of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, had a
personal relationship with color and its
purity.
By connecting the work of these and other artists to his own biography and
personal experience, he demystifies the «dogma of
purity promulgated in the 60s and 70s.»
Many found their footing through a series of dislocations, sometimes contaminating the purported
purity of form with
personal references and fiddling with idioms of presentation.
In
Purity, Magnusson does offer observers the opportunity to bear witness to a public display of purity so profound it may stir even the most strident of viewers to examine their personal be
Purity, Magnusson does offer observers the opportunity to bear witness to a public display of
purity so profound it may stir even the most strident of viewers to examine their personal be
purity so profound it may stir even the most strident of viewers to examine their
personal beliefs.
Defined by her adherence to the
personal and the essential, Zarina took an early interest in architecture and mathematics, as is reflected in her use of geometry and her emphasis on structural
purity.
In Zhou Yilun's art, this cocktail of contradictory cultural elements doesn't have the alluvial and demanding vehemence of other artists sharing the same genre, but a type of guilelessness, pleasant
purity which finally offers the feeling of comfortable honesty and freedom regarding
personal expectation and prejudice.
well, I guess we will agree to continue to differ: you from your
personal vantage point of the saintly warriors of Climate
purity, nobly battling the injustices of unwelcomed scrutiny and I from my
personal vantage point of arrogant academics refusing to concede mistakes or poor discernment but rather adopting «the best defense is a good offense» tactic as with Trenbeth, Mann and Jones to name just three.
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