Sentences with phrase «spiritual fervor of»
The spiritual fervor of artists like Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Klee or Rothko then seems as far away from us as the holy pictures of Orthodox churches.
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Inspired by a mix of spiritual fervor and hatred for an allegedly demonic enemy, startlingly large numbers of average folks took up arms.
In the great hymns and spirituals of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as in «There is a balm in Gilead / to make the wounded whole,» and «Swing low, sweet chariot, / comin» for to carry me home,» he finds «a directness and a fervor of utterance and humility which involves man's nobility and, to me, a spark of divinity.»
For a few years, the Azusa Street mission became the best - known hub of a movement framed by premillennialist views, influenced by a Wesleyan fervor for holiness and committed to the practice of the spiritual gifts enumerated in 1 Corinthians 12.
It lacks the beautiful enamel of deep fervor and heartiness, the true mysticism, an appreciation of history and the Church; it wants (i.e. «lacks») the substratum of a profound and spiritual theology; and under the mask of orthodoxy it not infrequently conceals, without intending or knowing it, the tendency to abstract intellectualism and superficial rationalism.
Endo's 1966 novel «Silence,» a stern, exquisite piece of historical fiction about Portuguese Jesuit priests persecuted for their beliefs in 17th century Japan, walks a thin line separating West from East, religious fervor from spiritual skepticism.
Taking place in the throes of Communist fervor in 1967 China, the film traces the journey of a young man from Beijing discovering the natural, spiritual mysteries of Inner Mongolia.
He's far more interested in finding himself through spiritual questioning, a practice that he champions with almost evangelical fervor as an emotional counterpoint to the «dead end» of postmoderism.
Remember the ritualistic daubing of perfume in preparation for a type of tryst, a slow, light movement on fingertips over the erogenous zones — perhaps more crass, but no less spiritual in its fervor — when one either anticipates,...