Sentences with phrase «sacred order»

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

On the marriage of the clergy, More says that the church binds no man to chastity against his will, for men only take sacred orders by their own desires.

Our elites are characterized by their pursuit of de-creation — an unending total war against the sacred order and its adherents.

The collapse of sacred order in Europe during the World Wars left many of Europe's surviving Jewish intellectuals to stake their theory and practice on the future of the United States and Israel.

The power of the order of hierarchs spreads throughout the entire company and works the special mysteries of its own hierarchy through all the sacred orders.

Dionysius defines a hierarchy as «a sacred order, a state of understanding and an activity approximating as closely as possible to the divine... It reaches out to grant every being, according to merit, a share of light and then through a divine sacrament, in harmony and in peace, it bestows on each of those being perfected its own form.»

[2] Jesus is the head of this hierarchy, who purifies, illuminates, and divinises through the sacred orders: he desires to perfect all rational beings in «his own form».

Mayernik's accounts of these cities also confirm a general observation by Philip Rieff: that all the marks of what we regard today as culture» books and vows, prayers and parading, law and architecture, music and the sciences, dancing and filial piety» originated as an address to sacred order from within sacred order, and apparently thrive only within such a context.

Making sense of Christian history as a living resource, peopled not with venerated abstractions but men and women as alive and individual as you or I, seems critical at a time when storytelling and imitation are more the province of secular entertainment than sacred order.

Once a member of a sacred order of monster hunters, Alumon was banished from the order and now operates alone as bounty hunter, taking contracts and doing odd jobs for money, from exorcisms and assassinations if the job requires it (and sometimes even if it doesn't).

Setsuki belongs to a sacred order of ninja who train at a hidden dojo protected by an invisible shroud.