Sentences with phrase «sacred meaning for»

Putin has justified the annexation of Crimea by saying that it has «sacred meaning for Russia, like the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for Jews and Muslims.»

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(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

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.

The Latin word religio meant devotion or commitment, «a conscientious concern for what really matters»; the English word «religion», while often implying a sense of the sacred, originally referred to the human attitude of devotion.

We experience God and revelation as perennially - unfolding, which means there's always room for new ways of understanding divinity and sacred text, especially when the old ways of understanding them (e.g. antiquated readings of Leviticus 18:22) turn out to be hurtful or to seem misguided.

Others quickly turned the discussion to what that means for us: people are sacred vessels, to be kept holy, respected and honored as God's vessels and instruments (compare II Tim.

To me, the most significant single point is that for people today «sacred meaning does not derive from a rooted concept supported by common tradition and institutions; rather, meaning is located in the unfolding of one's own life.»

Organizers of the event had for the second consecutive year brought together architects, theologians, geomancers and community activists to explore perceptions of landscape, geography and the meaning of the sacred.

In both northern California's recent Gasquette - Orleans Road Supreme Court ruling of 1988 and South Dakota's 1983 court ruling on Bear Butte, indigenous peoples lost protection of and access to sacred sites which in their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaning.

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.

There are indeed many intelligent, sincere, well - meaning people who say such things as: «Whatever the controversy, and however strong the scholarly arguments against it, I choose to believe in the supernatural aspects of my faith, simply because it is very important for me in the life of my faith to be radically aware of sacred mysteries.»

As Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacred.

Theology, if it is to explore adequately the meaning of play and its relation to the sacred, must «study the various biblical traditions and engage in the systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message for today's world.

For not only do the priestly and institutional forms of Christianity submit to the heteronomous authority of a series of events that are irrevocably past, but the thought of the Christian theologian himself has been closed to a truly dialectical meaning of the sacred.

These groups are not substitutes for the total life of the congregation in worship and witness; but they may be a most important means of breaking through rigidities and opening up a frank discussion where there will be no fear of probing sacred symbols and doctrines.

This means, of course, that for us, too, some things are still sacred.

Religion as the means of well - being for a community and thus for each individual, who has a role in that community, requires a common understanding between like - minded involving faith in a creed, obedience to a moral code set down in sacred Scriptures or participation in a cult.

The canon carries within it the principle that makes it sacred for us — the meaning - giving testimony of Jesus, which we as Christians recognize as primary authority.

We concluded that there are several reasons that could be used to support an argument for choosing Jesus as our compass, for granting him a sacred role as meaning - giver: first, we are not aware of any especially good alternatives; second, his ability to serve in this role has been confirmed in many faithful lives; and third, in choosing him we align ourselves with a compass which is in the public domain, and as such our interpretation is subject to the correction of tradition and public debate.

Any anthology which presents only the high and noble points of a sacred literature really misrepresents that literature, for it is not all by any means of equal beauty or interest or of equal moral or religious insight.

It means that Jesus elevates the relationship between a man and a woman in the order of creation, making it into a flesh and blood living symbol of His love for His Church, «a sign of a sacred thing.»

In baptism, we are all anointed, that is, «marked» with the sacred oils, which means that we are set aside, consecrated, and dedicated for the work of God.

Altizer is aware that for Brown «unrepressed life would be timeless or in eternity,» and he notes that «Brown seeks a libido that is unaffected by the Oedipus complex; and this means a libido that has not murdered God, a libido that is unfallen and still in union with the sacred» (p. 174).

Jabotinsky interpreted this to mean, «Do not exaggerate; do not see danger where none exists; do not regard a man who does his duty as a hero» for history is long, the Jewish people everlasting, and truth is sacred, but everything else, trouble and care and pain and death, ein davar.»

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»?)

For religion to deserve its place in this forum, it must tell and enact sacred stories and teach universal ideals, defining what it means to be a good person, and what makes life worth living and a society worth living in and working fFor religion to deserve its place in this forum, it must tell and enact sacred stories and teach universal ideals, defining what it means to be a good person, and what makes life worth living and a society worth living in and working forfor.

So Altizer lays out the problems raised for him by the death of God in terms of the sacred and the profane, and this enables him to make interesting use of Eliade's studies of the meaning of the sacred in archaic and modern religion.

P. L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, «Secularization and Pluralism,») Yearbook for the Sociology of Religion, 2 (1966), pp. 73 - 85, refer to «sacred comprehensive meanings for everyday life.»

If the conflict itself includes a clash of «resolution systems» (meaning systems or «sacred canopies»)-- if, in other words, A and B can not agree because neither accepts the other's basis for agreement — then some other resolution will be sought.

To make this point, Pope Francis appeals here in this address and elsewhere to John XXIII's words at Vatican II, Gaudet Mater Ecclesia: «For the deposit of faith, the truths contained in our sacred teaching, are one thing; the mode in which they are expressed, but with the same meaning and the same judgment [eodem sensu eademque sententia], is another thing.»

Rather, what does it mean for a community to listen to a sacred text?

This tendency to look for fixed meanings, authoritative images, sacred words, divine revelation, ultimate moral norms, the truth, is finally the expression of our own insecurity with human relativity and a symbol of our desperate need for security.

And the sooner we stop fetishizing it as the core of what it means to be a mother and a woman, as some sort of sacred, higher, path for the female sex, the sooner we will see it for what it really is: difficult, necessary, and honorable work whose workers deserve dignified and decent working conditions.

And even for me as an individual, is it not important to note that this is by no means the first time I've been a church - goer, that I had been recently finding a kind of joy (one might call it an experience of the sacred) reading T. S. Eliot, that my commitment to the new church is by no means total (in the sense of excluding work or family or friends), and that if statistical predictions work in my case I will probably have moved on to some other kind of commitment in five or ten years.

«We have no other means of self - defense than our solidarity and our knowledge that the cause for which we are suffering is a momentous and sacred cause,» Einstein writes to Zinn, of the Manhattan Button Company.

Mantras are sacred sounds used both for their meaning as well as the vibration of sound they create in the body.

In a way, I mean, that's largely what this community of explorers and investigators at ChrisKresser.com is all about, continuing to challenge even our cherished beliefs, like the idea that — not that this was a cherished belief for me, but sacred cows, let's say, like the idea that legumes aren't paleo and shouldn't be eaten because they have toxins in them.

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.

They are engaged in their own struggles, see themselves fighting for their own sacred causes, are busy looking for meaning in their own imperfect, incomplete lives.

For Tibetans, kora means walking around a sacred place absorbed in prayer, a kind of pilgrimage that can encompass hundreds of miles or only a few yards.

The condor was considered sacred by the Incas for its ability to fly and teach us the meaning of freedom - it represented the liberation from of our soul from body and mind.

And that just doesn't mean a space for you to work in (although that is vital)- he means that you need to have the confidence to share your creations with the world, allowing them to have their own sacred space where they can go on to inspire others.

Mary Chaplin in her creative process is constantly looking for an interior architecture, building visions of sacred meaning, an understanding of the world around us.

At first the work was quite controversial; sacred designs meant to be solely for ritual and only seen by initiates were being shown.

And maybe it's meant to be missed, this rectilinear fissure that separates the secular museum walls from the sacred slab of drywall that serves variously as artwork, prop, and envoy for Yve Laris Cohen's D.S., 2014, the artist's contribution to the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

For him, that episode came to signify the power of images to transcend even the context of the museum — to remain sacred even when they are meant merely to be contemplated.

She has garnered critical acclaim for her use of ceremonial and ritualistic materials gathered from and transcending everyday culture; the use of the sacred refers to a multiplicity of meanings as it dates back to pre-Christian times and is found in both Western and Eastern religions symbolized through such objects as the apple, salt, and lotus.

For example, although a small change to the project may seem insignificant, the diversion of a road by 50 metres to the right may mean the destruction of a sacred site.