It is one in which the religious community must take the side of the absolute
sacredness of life, with a commitment to the principle that the life we are privileged to live is given to us by God.
«An elegant musing
on sacredness, history, and purpose that is, at the same time, a deliciously romantic, highly suspenseful page - turner.»
Through the 1950s, however, all Christians of whatever stripe held to what Wilcox calls «the ideology of familism» that invested marriage, childbearing, and the household
with sacredness, and in which, at least since the Industrial Revolution, men were the chief economic providers while the domestic sphere and the welfare of the children were chiefly the domain of women.
His study of gesture and interest in authorship has a different spin on it than the original Abstract Expressionist (AbEx) painters though, since he also pits this belief against artists working to empty
sacredness out of a painting in subsequent generations (see Christopher Wool).
At the risk of oversimplification, then, it seems necessary to attempt a brief summary of the basic arguments we must grasp before we can understand critically the relations
between sacredness and everyday life.
If you're not
experiencing sacredness, connection, or fulfillment in your life, the place to look is not in another person; it's within yourself.
So we see that a renaissance of marriage and family life based on natural law has taken place once already in Britain, serving the good of society and upholding the
absolute sacredness of human life from the moment of conception to natural death.
Furthermore, Temple concludes, Christianity is the most «materialistic» of all religions because, though it subordinates matter to spirit, it
finds sacredness in everything God has made.
Church dictates and edicts aside,
does sacredness count for anything anymore?
But because a
certain sacredness attaches to them, people resent newer and more accurate versions couched in the familiar idiom of their own times.
Also, kids in Quaker meetings seem to usually recognize the
palpable sacredness of the silence, and so they seem to be able to behave better than one might expect.
Might it not be that we were made to bow
before Sacredness as it manifests itself in suffering for the survival of humankind — on the cross?
Although it is hard to discover the
enduring sacredness of anything in a totally secularized world, we must keep several points in mind about these calls.
Thus Christianity separates both humanity and God from the earth and destroys the
inherent sacredness of the earth.
If we seek an explanation of that motive's power we must start with the fact that when anything is sacrificed for, from a battle - flag to a boy, it
gains sacredness.
Moreover, the Christian community that knows this prophetic rebellion to belong to its contemporary mission will recognize and welcome other witnesses to this
same sacredness, be they communities of faith or of purely humane concern.
We expect they do and we suspect those characteristics as Gallagher concluded in his sermon are what
exude sacredness.
Those buildings were not ideal for the uses of the religious groups that adopted them, and they certainly had no
acquired sacredness for those groups.
The sentiment of human unity, of the sole
original sacredness of man and the purely derivative sanctity of persons, no matter who they are, is what we are born to, and what we must not fail to assert with an emphasis and good - will which may, if need be, make the world resound.
The sense of the sanctuary's
utter sacredness is attested also in the statement that the plans for the Tabernacle and its total furnishings originate here in the Sinai tradition.
How does a mama who has experienced everything about mommying — pregnancy, birth, mothering — with one child not feel guilt about sharing
such sacredness with another?
But if you truly
understand sacredness, you know that nothing can appear in your reality without you inviting it in.
Sacredness arises when you get curious about the patterns, energies, emotions, thoughts, and experiences that show up when you bond to another person.
The subdued light, candles, icons, silence, recollection and sense of
sacredness offer a refreshing experience of a different world, the world of the spirit, so often suffocated in the hectic routine of modern daily living.
Published simultaneously by University of New Mexico Press in the United States as well as Thames and Hudson in Great Britain, the book is a result of his family's experience examining how people
evoke sacredness in their everyday environments in the creation of devotional altars and household arrangements which sanctify and personalize the places in which they live.
Incorporating locally reclaimed wood from the site as trimming, celebrated the
vernacular sacredness of the place.
There is, as well, another important reason for reconsidering the relation
between sacredness and everyday life that we find spelled out in Berger's work.
Our need
for sacredness is part of our ancient survival apparatus, and manifests in what we call faith, the need to connect with that sacred dimension.
Yeah I gave up on that whole «
sacredness of life» thing after your God allegedly flooded the Earth killing all men, women, and children except for those on a raft.
Phrases with «sacredness»