Sentences with phrase «practice of sacrifice»

In the traditional practice of sacrifice, the divine powers typically stood on the side of the crowd and endorsed its violence.

It can not be denied that a similar belief underlies the practice of sacrifice in the Old Testament — the belief that God will accept the life of a substitute when the offerer's own life is forfeit.

It is the task of general sociology to investigate the sociological significance of the various forms of intellectual and practical expression of religious experience (myth, doctrine; prayer, sacrifice, rites; organization, constitution, authority); it falls to the specific sociological study to cover sociologically concrete, historical examples: a Sioux (Omaha) Indian myth, an Egyptian doctrine of the Middle Kingdom, Murngin or Mohammedan prayer, the Yoruba practice of sacrifice, the constitution of the earliest Buddhist Samgha, Samoyed priesthood, etc..

Shunning the usual practice of sacrificing nature for the sake of gigantic sporting arenas, the Norwegian city urged companies to use natural materials whenever possible, launched a regional recycling program, and stipulated that all built projects had to blend in with the natural landscape.

It was equally difficult for me to understand the practice of sacrificing and its meaning.

Not exact matches

Why does it bother you that people want to practice some self sacrifice as a sign of their faiths?

Altruism for her is not «the practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others,» as given in most dictionaries, but the sacrifice of a higher value for a lower (for instance, helping a stranger instead of a family member).

For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public places.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

After all, as the rather grisly specifics of the practice of animal sacrifice suggest, it would require a rather unnatural detachment for the members of the Court not to disapprove of any of the variety of religious beliefs or practices that they encounter in the cases they must decide.

The New Testament values of faithfulness, love, sacrifice and promise - based commitment can be practiced by heterosexual couples without children — and by same - sex couples as well.

The next social study should determine if this attitude is found primarily in people who have had sexual intercourse outside of marriage and / or who are practicing contraception» two practices that deny the purpose of sexual intercourse, favoring selfishness over the perfect love that makes sacrifices in marriage a joy.

7) to put your reasoning to the test, since you are a practicing Jew: if the temple in Jerusalem were rebuilt today (in place of the Dome of the Rock), would there be sacrifices there or not?

To consider is the prior practice of human sacrifice.

Several cultures of the past have practiced sacrifice of babies, and they thought it to be perfectly normal.

And we are the new creations, and His cruciform sacrifice forms a new heaven and a new earth and new ways, and in the form of a Gardener, He returns again to walk in the garden, not in the cool of the evening, but in the rising warmth of the dawn, and on Resurrection Morning, the Practice of Resurrection is begun first by the Resurrection Women.

We affirm the joy that comes from practicing the timeless virtues that form the character of Christ within us» discipline, self - sacrifice, courage, humility, patience, charity, truthfulness, and personal integrity.

Furthermore, Christian religious practice follows the scriptural view by reliving past events of the Old Testament and commemorating the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary in the Mass..

Interpenetrating the negative factors already mentioned was the practice of animal sacrifice as the characteristic way of approaching God.

Such a gift might spring from varied motives — gratitude, homage, or the desire to curry favor — but obviously in the background of the practice of animal sacrifice was the idea that God liked this form of gift and profited by it.

But he is no zealot, eager to practice child - sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.

Hebrews 10:26 26 For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left,

It was itself named for a valley outside Jerusalem that had once been the site of infant sacrifices and other abominable practices.

Or consider followers of Santeria who practice animal sacrifice.

The chief ancient ritual of intercourse with the unseen world was sacrifice, and in her earliest traditions, sacrificial practices of some kind were assumed as a matter of course.

The church that proclaimed the Chalcedonian Creed in 451 A.D. also practiced the baptism on nonbelievers (infants), prayed to Mary, and believed in and conducted the «sacrifice of the Mass,» and had a special order of priests in the church to carry out the «sacrifice of the Mass.» All these things continue today in the Roman Catholic Church and in the the Russian Orthodox Church (and the other «Eastern Orthodox» churches).

Odin, the chief god of the Norse, was associated with death by hanging, and a possible practice of Odinic sacrifice by strangling has some archeological support in the existence of bodies perfectly preserved by the acid of the Jutland (later taken over by the Daner people) peatbogs, into which they were cast after having been strangled.

In this way it was that they were taught that most cruel of sacrifices, a custom they always practiced after that, which consisted of cutting open a man s chest in order to tear out his heart and offer it to their idols.11

Originally the name of a valley just south of Jerusalem where child - sacrifice to the god Moloch was practiced (2 Kings 23:10; cf. Jer 7:31 - 32; 32:35), by the time of Jesus it had come to symbolize what our word «hell» signifies.

We who sacrifice fabulous resources to fatten the most inhuman form of violence so that it will continue to protect us, and who pass our time in transmitting futile messages from a planet that is risking destruction to planets that are already dead» how can we have the extraordinary hypo crisy to pretend that we do not understand all those people who did such things long before us: those, for example, who made it their practice to throw a single child, or two at the most, into the furnace of a certain Moloch in order to ensure the safety of the others?

I think Mr. Bottum needlessly confuses the practices of animal sacrifice and human sacrifice.

The fact is that millions of mainstream Muslims from a range of classes still practice bloody animal sacrifices annually at the» Eid «ul «Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.

It is a practice that was relevant in that day of sacrificing animals and children to the gods.

I think that the references to hell are talking about the practice that was once used of sacrificing humans by burning them, and if we were evil we might suffer the same fate as those human sacrifices

Even in the bible with talks of how the early church was to worship, it basically just says that whatever method with which you feel comfortable worshiping, use it to glorify the Lord (within reason, clearly animal sacrifices, etc were no longer accepted practices).

When we gather on Sunday to worship, we enter the heavenly tabernacle together, approach God's throne together to seek His mercy, and offer the New Covenant sacrifices of praise together; again, we are unavoidably constituted by this practice.

Old testament practices of worship are some forms of worship Jesus did, and we should worship God in our actions, by giving, singing, etc (but Jesus has obviously replaced the need for burnt offerings, but instead we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God).

It is sort of confusing because the practice of «scapegoating» humans predates the scapegoat sacrifice, but we call it scapegoating because of the sacrifice.

And as if this were not enough, he took steps to exterminate the practice of Judaism, prohibiting all major festivals, sacrifice, Sabbath observance, circumcision.

We need to comprehend the first link if we are to understand something of the process by which sacrifice was displaced from an actual bloody ritual practice to a metaphor for moral action, such that we can now say «he was very self - sacrificial» and not mean «he offered his body to Aztec priests.»

He lost 40 pounds, prayed every day, practiced celibacy and sacrificed in the service of what he believed God could call one into.

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It is a type of enduring object, but I will follow Whitehead's usual practice of using the latter term to refer to the far more numerous societies that achieve endurance by the sacrifice of life.

This book presented a non-violent reading of Scripture in light of Girard's mimetic theory, but more than anything, this book was a defense of how the Catholic Mass could still be practiced and not be viewed as a perpetual sacrifice.

In the same maner I would think a bit longer before diminishing the rol of pastoral ministries not to mention the commandment of baptism and the most beautiful practice of remember Christ sacrifice through communion.

[15] Focusing on the cup, Cyprian writes that he has been constrained to address this issue because of the «ignorance or naïveté» of some people, who in consecrating the Lord's cup and in its administration «do not follow the precepts and practices of Jesus Christ our Lord and God, the Author and Teacher of this sacrifice» (1.1).

That's not even including the millions upon millions of individual victims of ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance and the centuries of human sacrifice practiced by cults around the planet.

So Jews only continued the practice of blood sacrifice and it was not an original idea on pleasing god?.

Please give book, chapter, and verse where your God justifies his wholesale, targeted, slaughter of women and children due to a people's practice of human / baby sacrifice.

These detestable practices the other nations partook of (and child sacrifice was only one), Israel was influenced by, and at times, Israel unfortunately did similar things.