Sentences with phrase «sacrificial cult»

The sacrificial cult detailed in the first 16 chapters of Leviticus sits down to table fellowship with this God.

So, within the sacrificial cult, the people of God reveal God to be merciful.

Only after the Old Testament canon was complete and in 70 A.D. the temple was destroyed by the Romans, was Jewish thought, as a whole, finally cast out of its local matrix, and even then the legal system, with its particularistic minutiæ, was the more insisted on because the sacrificial cult was gone.

Opinions differ as to whether the others rejected outright the sacrificial cult.

There was also far less emphasis — to say the least — upon the sacrificial cult than was to be found in Judean Christianity.

Jesus was the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek» — the High Priest who fulfilled and therefore abolished the whole sacrificial cult when he offered his own blood as a sacrifice in the heavenly sanctuary.

Not exact matches

In his view the valuation of goods finds its origins in the selection of sacrificial animals «in the cult, not in commerce (which knows no basis for typology, but remains purely individualistic).»

The terrible dynamism of nature had to be both resisted and controlled by rites at once apotropaic — appeasing chaos and rationalizing it within the stability of cult — and economic — recuperating its sacrificial expenditures in the form of divine favor, a numinous power reinforcing the regime that sacrifice served.