Sentences with phrase «sacred history before»

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Consequently we know nothing except that man was created by God as God's personal partner in a sacred history of salvation and perdition; that concupiscence and death do not belong to man as God wills him to be, but to man as a sinner; that the first man was also the first to incur guilt before God and his guilt as a factor of man's existence historically brought about by man, belongs intrinsically to the situation in which the whole subsequent history of humanity unfolds.

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.

Despite some excessive enthusiasm over this point by well - meaning Teilhardians of the «60s, no one can deny the central fact of Christianity: God enters into history and into matter in Christ, rendering relative all distinctions between matter and spirit, sacred and secular, before the primal fact of God's redemptive grace in all things.

See the Mutitjulu Waterhole with its Aboriginal rock paintings and learn the history of this sacred area, before browsing through the award - winning Uluru - Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre.