Sentences with phrase «sacred nature of»

Over the years I have come to recognize how empowering it can be for us when we deepen our respect for the sacred nature of our unique selves and when we learn to listen carefully and wholistically to the inherent wisdom that resides in and unfolds deep within.

Altoon Sultan blogs about the sacred nature of Australian Aboriginal paintings on view in the exhibition Crossing Cultures: the Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art at the Hood Museum of Art, on view through March 10, 2013.

Debra Pascali - Bonaro, is the Founder & President of the revolutionary online childbirth class Pain to Power, which prepares expectant mothers, fathers, and partners to be positively prepared for birth, the Director of the award - winning documentary Orgasmic Birth: The Best - Kept Secret and co-writer of «Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth» all of which explore the intimate and sacred nature of birth.

And the Founder & President of the revolutionary online childbirth class Pain to Power, which prepares expectant mothers, fathers, and partners to be positively prepared for birth and focuses on the intimate and sacred nature of birth.

This kind of event reminds us of the spectacular, the sacred nature of the planet we inhabit.

If pushed, you can state that you have a «profound belief» in the sacred nature of the placenta, and leave it at that.

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That's like me saying, «I don't mind my cancerous tumor, it's a natural part of my sacred body and I don't want to go against what nature or a devine being has dealt me.»

It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.

Although sacred nature has an ancient history, its recent manifestations are virtually concurrent with the industrial revolution, with this distinctively modern twist: that man is a kind of plague upon or virus within nature.

What once protected nature from human abuse was a sense of its sacred character.

«To know human nature most deeply, one must become a student of the sacred.»

That which ultimately makes a theological school theological and provides the criteria of its excellence as a school is not the structure of its curriculum, nor the types of pedagogical methods it employs, nor the dynamics of its common life, nor the structure of its polity, nor even the «sacred» subject matters it studies; rather it is the nature of its overarching end and the degree to which that end governs all that comprises its common life.

Gregorian chant gives an elevated tone of voice to the texts of our sacred praises, conveying the special character of the words and the holy nature of what is being enacted and undertaken.

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.14

(CCC: 2500) People have always been drawn to Christian faith by the sacred beauty that the Church offers us in the revelation of God in Jesus, scripture, liturgy, sacraments, lives of the saints, sacred art, miracles of conversion and healing, and in her own very nature.

Just as I can't possibly grasp the true nature of the reality of science, I've had to admit that I also can't possibly grasp the true nature of the divine, sacred, God, whatever you want to call it.

Much ecotheology, process theology and creation spirituality go even further by arguing against the traditional split between inert, value - free nature and a transcendent God, and by arguing that God acts in and through the processes of nature, which are reconceived as sacred or spiritual.

Aeterni Patris insists that a sound philosophy is needed «in order that sacred theology may receive and assume the nature, form, and genius of a true science.»

Nichols explains Gilson's insight: «As with the two natures of the Word Incarnate according to the Christology of Chalcedon, two wisdoms» sacred doctrine and the philosophy of being» collaborate intimately but without confusion.»

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.

Elsewhere, Berger elaborates by pointing out that religions provide legitimation and meaning in a distinctly «sacred» mode, that they offer claims about the nature of ultimate reality as such, about the location of the human condition in relation to the cosmos itself.

Nature, therefore, is to be looked upon as sacred, rather than as a mere agent of utility for human needs, towards which human beings are called to relate with a sense of duty.161 The arrival of the harvest, as may be noted from the case of the mustard seed, asserts that the time has come when the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available for all including non-human creation.

In this final chapter we will consider the nature of spirituality, the sacred, the role of worship, different forms of prayer, the integration of our work world into our faith, the nature and purpose of the Church, and where we go from here.

A brief consideration of the new spirituality which we need to encompass the whole of life, along with a look at the sacred, worship, prayer, work, and the nature of the Church.

This provides a metaphysical basis for the value of nature and is a part of the religious vision that nature is sacred.

Typically, those who defend the family on natural - law grounds are happy to further demonstrate the compatibility of the nature - based approach with a supernatural one, wherein the authority of the traditional family results from the imposition of sacred order upon the natural substrate or raw material of biological necessity on the one hand and possibility on the other.

They reject the splitting apart, in the Greek and much of the Christian tradition, of body and spirit, nature and history, secular and sacred.

The basic conviction was that of a legitimate distinction between sacred and secular: between things which by nature and circumstance belonged to God and through which he might be known, on the one hand, and those which belonged to the world and tended, therefore, to separate a man from God on the other.

I understood my relationship with nature as a kind of religion and I wanted to see what wisdom I could find from sacred texts.

First, it displays an unwarranted distrust of human nature and of the created order inasmuch as it denies our native capacity to know something of sacred mystery apart from our being specifically Christianized.

There is a second kind of veneration, called «hyperdulia,» which is applied to the highest human nature — chiefly to the sacred Humanity of our Lord, Jesus Christ Himself.

Many sites and festivals that have a «sacred» emphasis do in practice indulge in various forms of nature worship, sometimes overt.

But the idea behind a sacred text is that in your interaction with it, you would be moved and the Spirit would speak on something to you, and you wouldn't need to be convinced of its divine nature or origins.

Moreover, in addressing «the nature of the academic calling» (as they significantly still put it), the AAUP argued that «if education is the cornerstone of the structure of society and if progressing in scientific knowledge is essential to civilization, few things can be more important than to enhance the dignity of the scholar's profession...» Scientific knowledge and free inquiry thus gained near - sacred status.

It is evident that Smith's theology is «natural theology», a knowledge of God arrived at by the study of nature alone, without any reliance on «revelation» as recorded in sacred scripture.

31 - 35); the clear indication of the nature of the Urim and Thummim as sacred lots cast to determine divine will (v. 41); and finally, the incidental insight we are given into the profoundly democratic nature of Israel's early monarchy in the effective popular protest to Saul's sentence of death upon Jonathan (vv.

Part of the problem is that theologians find it hard to escape the rigid dualism of sacred and profane, subject and object, nature and supernature.

In January 1588, he wrote to a friend in the Electoral service, Johann Loser, asking him to be godfather to his son «whom God has given me this night by my dear Katie, so that he may come out of the old Adam's nature to the rebirth in Christ through the holy sacrament of baptism, and may become a member of sacred Christendom.

We know that communism was a theology, a church militant, with sacred texts and with saints and martyrs and prophets, with doctrines about the nature of the world and of humankind, with immutable laws and millennial visions and life - pervading judgments about the nature of good and evil.

Iberian Catholicism with its emphasis on orthodoxy, rituals and the divinely established monarchical nature of all society conquered physically but itself was absorbed by the pre-Colombian spiritualism with its emphasis on the cosmic - earthly rituals expressing the harmonious unity of opposing tensions: male and female, suffering and happiness, self - annihilation and transcendence, individual and group, sacred and profane, life and death.

A holistic vision of the Gospel which overcomes all dichotomies — spiritual and material, personal and social, history and nature, sacred and secular — should be affirmed as the basis of God's freeing and creative act.

In place of the person of Jesus who once housed the kenotic sacred, the universal humanity now assumes the reality and dynamism of Christ and activates that power by ever becoming more conscious of its divine nature.

Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.

The affirmations are accompanied by 29 exquisite drawings which evoke a sense of the sacred and profound nature of new life.

Dr. Samuel «Ohukani «ōhi`a Gon of The Nature Conservancy explained the sacred standing of the Ohi'a in native Hawaiian culture, and Andy Newhouse described the success the State University of New York has had genetically editing blight - proof American chestnut trees, heading off their extinction by an invasive fungus.

Ryan is a lover of all living things, and is in constant awe of the sacred dance between humans, animals and nature.

The use of medicinal herbs and nature - based remedies is as old as humankind, and in many cultures they were even believed to be magical or sacred because of their amazing properties (Read our full History of Herbal Medicine).

Learn how sacred geometry — the golden ratio — as found throughout nature affects the energetic vitality of food and water.

I take my trusty journal and a bunch of magazines like The Intelligent Optimist, Mindful, Yoga Journal to a sacred space in nature.

In simpler terms, Hatha Yoga depicts a sacred unification of the Soul with the Nature or Character, Sun with the Moon, and the Inhaled Breath (Prana) with the Exhaled (Apana).