Sentences with phrase «sacral history»

Both the Bible and the Qur» an are «sacral history», that is to say they describe past events as evidence of God's controlling activity.

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For Christians, then, to recover and understand the meaning of the command to have «no other god,» it is necessary first to recognize that the victory of the Church in history was not only incomplete, but indeed set free a force that the old sacral order had at least been able to contain; and it is against this more formless and invincible enemy that we take up the standard of the commandment today.

But it began to think of mystery more in terms of a vision for history than in terms of the sacral dimension behind natural phenomena.

Aside from admiring the New York - based artist's extraordinary works, visitors will also have a chance to explore the fascinating history of their creation and to find out how Jewish sacral architecture - destroyed by the Nazis and no longer extant - inspired this modern American painter.