Sentences with phrase «sacred element of»

On the other hand, «face time» (for the sake of face time) is, for better and worse, more than simply an antiquated relic of a simpler time — in some cases it may seem an almost sacred element of firm culture.»

The sacred element of marriage has changed dramatically over the decades, it doesn't hold the same tradition or relevance it once did, but there are those out there who have been married for several years, but «Hope Springs» addresses the concept of being «happily married», a term that is thrown around all too frequently these days, Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are said couple, married for 31 years as Arnold keeps reminding us, reminding us because Kay knows the spark is gone, and Arnold uses this fun fact to remind her, just because the number is there doesn't mean it's a happy one.

The sacred element of marriage has changed dramatically over the decades, it doesn't hold the same tradition or relevance it once did, but there are those out there who have been married for several years, but «Hope Springs»

Not exact matches

Sometimes the words of the sacred text are thought to be the very words of God himself, ipsissima verba, the human element in the situation being merely instrumental.

This, at any rate, is the way in which I approach the meaning and reality of the sacred and profane, and thus I would resist Father Heisig's point that I understand the profane as a passive element that evolves only through its association with the sacred.

In fact religion is commonly understood as consisting precisely (from our viewpoint) in such relatively trivial and non-essential elements — as for example, the precise acceptance of particular historic doctrines, the reverencing of sacred books, or the performance of specific ritual acts.

«To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred».

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

These elements reflect some of the traditional aspects of sacred space that have been passed down for centuries.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

The revelatory character of sacred writings results essentially from their powerful exemplification of the first two fundamentals of religious experience: In the first place, there is the marked element of surprise, of wonder and amazement at the new and wholly unexpected things that have come to pass (e.g., deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt or from Babylon, the sense of a living presence among the disciples who had witnessed Jesus» crucifixion).

As they fall in defense of their holy place, for all the poor form of their devotion, there is this element of sublimity: they do believe that something in life is so sacred that a man would better die than have it violated.

The sacred implies an element of mystery — which Paul calls marriage in Ephesians 5.

Rather, the sacred is that aspect of the world, those elements in it, that point towards God, that help us to become aware of God and to direct our lives towards God.

This adherence to symbolism implies that symbolism in language is valid only when it is borne by the sacred values of the elements themselves.

All literate religions have sacred books, but to suggest that the Scriptures of the Christians and Jews are the key element of these religions is mistaken.

Christian liturgy is an example of cultural performance grounded in a ritual mode but puts together «types of performance that are sacred and secular, that are religious, aesthetic, and recreational», is «quasi-theatrical» but «is no pretense, but an actual, here and now doing» Following Schechner, Driver braids «efficacious» aspects of ritual performance with «entertaining» elements of «aesthetic» theatre.

For neo-pagans, the four elements - earth, air, water and fire - are closely linked to their view of a sacred planet.

For instance, Habermas pays more explicit attention to economic development and to the state, credits the social sciences with a more prominent role in cultural evolution, and stresses secular procedures as elements of legitimation rather than emphasizing sacred or religious values.

Many of the elements basic to a Christian way of life were first basic to a Jewish way of life: a reverence for the Scriptures; a sense of the sacred; respect for the law; humility before the transcendent; the cherishing of the human capacity for reflection and choice; the sharp taste of the existing (as distinct from non-existing), and of being (as opposed to nonbeing), and therefore of the blessed contingency of this created world; the practice of compassion; the ideal of friendship with God and of «walking with God»; the habit of prayer; and a sense of the presence of God during the activities of every day — all these are habits of life that Christians share with Jews and have learned from Judaism.

«To try to grasp the essence of such a phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it — the element of the sacred.»

In Acts the designation emphasizes fellowship and fidelity to Jesus in the early Christian community: here it denotes real presence and a specific identity of the sacred elements at Mass with the physical presence of the Risen Lord.

So the transhistorical elements in their stories are not to be understood as myth, but as the means whereby the sacred - historical aspects of the story are revealed within the history itself.

In Altizer, the profane remains throughout a rather passive element that grows only by its association with the sacred, and is of itself pure meaninglessness.

He explained each existence, both by resolving them very skillfully into their primary elements, then by reversing the process and detailing the constitution of the universe and of each part, and the manifold variation and change in every portion of it, until carrying us on with his wise teaching and arguments, both those which he had learned and those which he had discovered, concerning the sacred economy of the universe and its faultless constitution, he established a reasonable, in place of an unreasoning, wonder in our souls.

Deepen your connection to the elements and your own sacred inner temple through the embodied practice of chakra flow yoga and meditation.

From its prime location at the base of the sacred Inca site, to its sophisticated interiors, the newly renovated Sumaq Machu Picchu Hotel blends Andean and European design elements.

Since she is one of the legendary gods of the elements, Amaterasu possesses two sacred artifacts, the Celestial Brush and a Divine Instrument.

Without spoiling too much, it's got the ancient holy army of «greater good» types hot on her trail, the native protectors of some sacred location that are suspicious but amicable, some supernatural element that is regularly teased throughout the story, and a few enigmatic characters that provide the character motivations and eventual twists throughout the game.

You also must face against the clock before each individual sacred element runs out of power.

One of the first painted altarpieces in North and Western Europe, it also marks a more populist approach to Christianity, with realist figures depicted next to more sacred elements.

But he eventually dissolved his identity in the luminous electronic liquid light of his videos, the beauty of his drawings, and in diagrams that try to describe the animating sacred element he found in all people and things.

In Chris Ofili's work painterly and cultural elements — both sacred and profane, personal and political, from high art and popular culture — come together to play on ideas of beauty while carrying messages about black culture, history and exoticism.

In his catalogue essay for the exhibition The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting, 1980 — 1985, (1986) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, curator Maurice Tuchman proposed that early historical abstraction was generated from five elements of the spiritual, which referred to underlying modes of thought — cosmic imagery, vibration, synesthesia, duality, and sacred geometry.

It is a work that encapsulates his multicultural practice, balanced on the knife's edge between those essential yet polarised elements of human experience: the sacred and the profane.

The gallery says his work features «painterly and cultural elements — both sacred and profane, personal and political, from high art and popular culture — come together to play on ideas of beauty while carrying messages about black culture, history and exoticism.»

Given the importance of water both practically and symbolically there is more than an element of the sacred.

In the Shoshone case, the Supreme Court held that the tribe's Aboriginal title was as «sacred as the fee» (58), that minerals and timber constitute elements of the land itself, and that for all practical purposes the tribe owned the land and is entitled to compensation for the timber and minerals.