Sentences with phrase «sacred history became»

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What is new in the Christian name of Jesus is the epiphany of the totality of the sacred in the contingency of a particular moment of time: in this name the sacred appears and is real only to the extent that it becomes actual and realized in history.26

The incarnation is only truly and actually real if it effects the death of the original sacred, the death of God himself... What is new in the Christian name of Jesus is the epiphany of the totality of the sacred in the contingency of a particular moment of time: in this name the sacred appears and is real only to the extent that it becomes actual and realized in history [The Gospel of Christian Atheism (Westminster, 1966), pp. 54, 57].

The Scriptures, against their own will, intention, and warning, became the «paper pope» with the result that the present was sacrificed, immediacy in preaching was lost, and congregations became accustomed to being sacrificed weekly on the altar of «sacred history»

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.

Yet it is Nietzsche's vision of Eternal Recurrence, a vision also employing but inverting the sacred language of the mystics, which most clearly illuminates the thinking and experience of a history which is becoming totally profane.

Hence, his deep concern for burying once and for all both God and church in order to align his loyalties fully with Christ — the symbol for the sacred at work in human history — as he is becoming present «in every human hand and face.»

The tournament has a starry history at a school where many customs have become sacred rituals.