Sentences with phrase «principal form and content»

Because images, in a book or in a sermon, are generally regarded as decorative and hence optional in their bearing upon the principal form and content of the communication, the imaginative preacher may have to endure such comments as «His sermons don't seem theologically weighty» or «It was too interesting to have contained much truth», or perhaps such inverted compliments as «I was much involved in your talk, or whatever it was.

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Hasidism takes over from the Lurian Kabbalah most of its principal concepts in somewhat simplified and popularized form, but it gives these concepts an emotional content that sometimes makes them very different from the original.