Sentences with phrase «profaned by»

Fight fans, however, need not feel that the old abattoir's seamy atmosphere is necessarily profaned by the sound of music and the soft laughter of dancers.

No, you don't care because it is not your building, the hotel can do what they want with that room, and the church that meets there on Sunday morning is not profaned by what went on in the same room on Friday night.

He got along well with the despised customs officials (whom we probably translate inadequately as «tax collectors,» not to say «publicans») and the equally unwelcome centurion of the Roman army of occupation stationed at Capharnaum, who implored Jesus to heal his boy, pointing out that Jesus could do it by just giving a command without even having to profane himself by entering a gentile house.

Television transcends the profane by providing a media ritual which is at the same time engaging yet free of effort.

Not exact matches

Ribatti goes to profane lengths to profess his innocence in the new book by New Yorker contributor Mueller, a history of olive oil and the often filthy business dealings surrounding it.

Leal will do that through a cheeky (and borderline profane) advertising campaign, a franchise strategy and, well, just by being hungrier than anyone else.

You can start by deleting or more actively monitoring users (if any) who engage in profane language so they don't create a negative experience for your other followers.

If you haven't read this slightly profane quote by Ernest Hemingway about first drafts, do so now and take it to heart.

Comments made by Mr. Trump are outrageous, & he must apologize immediately for his disrespectful, profane & demeaning language about women.

Disciplinary reports obtained by the Herald show that at Westglades Middle School, which he attended in 2013, he'd been cited numerous times for disrupting class, unruly behavior, insulting or profane language, profanity toward staff, disobedience and other rules violations.

Actor Ron Perlman attacked President Donald Trump on social media Tuesday morning, but likely wasn't prepared to be burned by a commenter who noticed a flaw in the star's profane joke.

Do not make comments that are threatening, defamatory (for example: alleging criminal activity by an individual), obscene, profane, contain hate speech or degrade others.

Everytime religious people post something about God or something out of their belief, there comes the Atheists storming it with their typical (hateful, profane, disrespectful but in - fairness articulate, itellect, scientific and logical) replies and name callings such as; «2000 years religious numbnuts», «oxymorons who keep asking of sky daddy's help», «idiots who was fooled by a magical being in the sky» and so on and so forth.

Most troublesome of all was the narrator himself: Lancelot Andrewes Lamar, a profane and savage moralist redeemed by neither grace nor irony.

That way of living — shaped by memory, bounded by tradition, directed to the future, formed to meet obligations both sacred and profane, and ultimately answerable to permanent truths — can not be embodied in the practice of lone individuals, because at its essence it is about relational commitments.

Altizer, on the other hand, has a Dionysian, fully dialectic theology that, by radical affirmation of the profane, goes beyond mere secularism and its Godlessness and discovers the sacred via a nonhubristic apotheosis.

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.

Altizer's historico - existentialist period was characterized by a dialectical affirmation of the world of experience, which maximized a radical thrust into the profane only to transfigure its present form.

It does not take place through creedal profession or magic manipulation, but through the concrete meeting of I and Thou by which the profane is sanctified and the mundane hallowed.

(Isaiah 6:1 - 3) Such a God was not lightly to be approached; an inviolability not to be profaned lay deep in Isaiah's thought of the Eternal; but reverence had taken the place of dread as the corollary of holiness, majesty had displaced the former dangerousness of the deity, and the response demanded from man by the holiness of the Most High had become thoroughly ethical.

No doubt the total vision promised by an apocalyptic form of faith is not yet present upon our historical horizon; for, immersed as we are in a fully profane consciousness, we would seem to have lost the very possibility of apocalyptic vision.

The death of God in Christ is an inevitable consequence of the movement of God into the world, of Spirit into flesh, and the actualization of the death of God in the totality of experience is a decisive sign of the continuing and forward movement of the divine process, as it continues to negate its particular and given expressions, by moving ever more fully into the depths of the profane.

We are confronted by the paradox that the sacred creates the profane.

Just as the apocalyptic New Aeon of primitive Christianity appears only in the context of the seeming triumph of the Old Aeon of darkness, a total act of faith in Christ demands a dialectical movement occasioned by the presence of the radical profane.

For while the sacred may be seen as that which gives meaning and value to the profane sphere, at the same time it may by its separateness and elevation tend to empty the profane sphere of significance and worth.

29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

Again, a total epiphany of the sacred occurs only by means of a total abolition of the profane.

By a kenotic negation of its primordial reality, the sacred becomes incarnate in the profane.

Of course, the higher expressions of mysticism have always known a transcendence of images, but they transcend imagery by abolishing the profane consciousness, or by dissolving all that history lying between the present and the Beginning.

It would occur by means of what Hegel terms «pure negativity» or the «negation of negation,» and it would move through the reality of the profane to a final or eschatological sacred that reconciles the profane with itself.

When the negative movement of religion is understood as being a reversal of the profane, there is a clear implication that religion acts by way of a backward movement or return, with the inevitable corollary that the sacred is an original or primordial Reality.

But whether by way of myth and ritual, or through interior meditation or prophetic faith, religion seeks to annul all opposition between the sacred and the profane, thereby seeking a renewal of paradise in the present moment.

If so, it would seem to follow that an eschatological faith must seek to abolish the opposites either by collapsing the profane into the sacred or by annihilating the form and movement of the profane.

Whether we conceive of religion as a quest for original participation, or as a repetition of an unfallen Beginning which abolishes the opposites by negating the reality of the profane, it is clear that Christianity can not be judged in this sense to be a religion, or at the very least that the Christian faith is finally directed to a non-religious goal.

Although Catholics are baptized, they don't behave Christian in daily life, but are completely assimilated by the profane world.

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

The Pharisees profaned the Sabbath by enforcing their own rules.

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

Indeed, the presence of the holy within the profane is suggested by the doctrine of the incarnation — not a recent innovation.

Similar sentiments are heard today from «pastoral planners» who take their cues from Protestant megachurches in which creating a feeling of «ownership» on the part of the congregation, often by blurring the border between sacred and profane, is very much part of the marketing - and - retention strategy.

Even Karl Marx, according to Marshall Berman's puzzlingly rhapsodic celebration of life in modernism's «maelstrom,» confessed that modern experiences are characterized by «everlasting uncertainty»: «All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned» (All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity).

By making contact with the profane like Proust, and with the sacred at the same time, like Eliade.

Sister Mary Corita chose to answer these questions with the words of William Sloane Coffin: «Because we love the world, we pray now, O [God], for grace to quarrel with it, O Thou whose lover's quarrel with the world is the history of the world... Lord, grant us grace to quarrel with the worship of success and power... to quarrel with all that profanes and trivializes [people] and separates them... number us, we beseech Thee, in the ranks of those who went forth from this place longing only for those things for which Thou dost make us long, [those] for whom the complexity of the issues only served to renew their zeal to deal with them, [those] who alleviated pain by sharing it; and [those] who were always willing to risk something big for something good... O God, take our minds and think through them, take our lips and speak through them.

How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed:: Profane and sacred all at the same time.

Further, the use by either a pastor or a secular counselor of a profane and shocking vocabulary to exhibit his personal «release» is more a sign of lingering infantilism than of maturity.

It is precisely those who most deeply refuse our world and the forward movement of history and consciousness who are now driven to a primordial way, a way that masks the profane reality of time and death by apprehending it as being at one with a primordial unity.

The profane and the sacred, the civil and the religious, are by and large distinctions which we read into the Old Testament.

Prior to this period of history, the traditional words of blessing before a meal were «Blessed be thou, O Lord God, King of the Universe»; in this era the focus shifted ever so subtly and the food itself became the object of blessing — «Bless, O Lord, this food» — for food was considered mundane or profane, and only when touched by the holy words of a Christian could it be brought into the realm of the sacred.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)