Sentences with phrase «spiritual traditions which»

Hailing from Edo State, the historic seat of the Benin Empire, he draws inspiration from the dual aesthetic and spiritual traditions which infused his upbringing, using imagery and iconography from both Edo traditions and Catholicism.

Orat, which succinctly reminds us of the spiritual tradition which Newman represents.

Not exact matches

«See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

«Mindful attention,» which Schwartz draws from the Buddhist tradition, is a spiritual discipline right in line with the practice of detachment employed by the Church's desert fathers.

@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

This tradition had become so naturalized that Mill was willing to jettison the laboriously accumulated repository of spiritual capital on which his brand of liberalism depended for its continued existence.

Understanding this new perspective on church is as difficult today as it was in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a different perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same: Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual maturity.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

In the main tradition of Christian teaching the Amalekites are taken to be a symbol for the «spiritual hosts of wickedness» with which we are to contend d outrance.

The main caveat is that the first resource fails to show the human spiritual soul, which our tradition has seen as so fundamental to a coherent presentation of the Catholic Faith (and the FAITH movement agrees!).

I write from the standpoint of a Church of England parish priest and many of my examples are from that tradition, but I recognize that the Church of England is one church amongst many churches, just as Christianity is one religion amongst many world religions which are slowly learning to share with each other their spiritual treasures and to work together for peace, the relief of human need and the preservation of the planet.

AA's twelve steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole [quoted from the forward to the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions].

Speaking in cultural terms, M.M. Thomas argues that a «post-modern humanism which recognizes the integration of mechanical, organic and spiritual dimensions, can develop creative reinterpretation of traditions battling against fundamentalist traditionalism and actualize the potential modernity to create a dynamic fraternity of responsible persons and people».12

What is needed, then, is ongoing conversion facilitated by spiritual traditions within Christianity as the mechanism by which one enters the Great Tradition and develops the interior disposition of discernment.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

The stories of the appearances of Christ combine traditions about a «spiritual body» such as Paul speaks about (the Lord appears suddenly within a room) with others which tell of a tangible body, capable of being touched or grasped and of the physical process of eating.

It finds its appropriate organ not in a state, but in a Church, that is to say a society which is the embodiment of a purely spiritual tradition and which rests, not on material power, but on the free adhesion of the individual mind.

In the spring of 1952 Buber was awarded the Goethe Prize by the University of Hamburg for his «activity in the spirit of a genuine humanity» and for «an exemplary cultural activity which serves the mutual understanding of men and the preservation and continuation of a high spiritual tradition.»

Thus many of the ideas and categories which they brought with them to their experience of the Buddha gave direction to the development of the existing tradition and above all assisted in its codification and systematization.5 When the dogmatics applied the predicate Mahapurusa to the Buddha — as we know, the Mahapurusa is characterized by a number of specific primary and secondary physical and spiritual attributes — or that of Cakravartin — this does not imply, as de la Vallee Poussin has already and very appropriately remarked, that they were «idealizing» or recalling attributes of the historical Sakyamuni.

The words are at best a very rough translation and they convey a sense which is in tension with Church Tradition concerning the uniquely spiritual (non-physical) human soul.

These are important questions on which economic theory and spiritual traditions hold different views.

I fear that he is right in speculating that not only has our age lost its knowledge of our cultural and spiritual traditions, but we have even lost the sensibility by which to understand them.

Just as important as the attempt of each tradition to reinterpret their symbols and rituals to meet the needs of the new spiritual parameters will be the cross-fertilization of cultures which takes place in the globalizing process.

Indeed, as we have tried to suggest in a limited fashion, there may be reasons to conclude that elements of Amoris Laetitia are better explained by reference to Pope Francis's personal characteristics than to the spiritual tradition to which he belongs.

It behooves married couples who no longer find their childhood tradition satisfying to search until they find a church or temple which does satisfy their spiritual needs and those of their children.

Imagine a world in which the deepest wisdom and values of the great spiritual traditions touch the critical questions of the age, and in which religious communities are in deep and thoughtful dialogue with experts on all those critical questions.35

The title comes from a collection of texts — written in Greek between the fourth and 15th centuries — which include the most important spiritual writings of the Orthodox tradition.

Shira, The meme «God hates pagans and apostates» is definitely biblical, which testifies to the reality that individually and collectively all People of the Book [and other Religious Traditions] are capable of greater or lesser spiritual understanding and mature actions.

Yet Stewart writes from within the tradition of which Cassian was a part, and is eager to present him as a living master of the spiritual life.

It is worth noting here that in the Christian metaphysics of creation too, to which Thomas Aquinas can once again serve as an example, the process of nature is regarded as ultimately determined by spirit and by cognition in virtue of its fundamental goal - directedness.9 But in this tradition it is exclusively the creative spirit of God that as First Cause is operative in creatures and gives direction to their becoming, instead of a spiritual principle belonging to the natural beings themselves.

With minor variations, they hold views similar to those of Brahmabandhab Upadhyay, namely that the Hindu tradition is a samaj dharma or societal tradition which is open to a variety of sadhana dharma (s) or spiritual traditions.

Jung had a deep appreciation for the spiritual riches of the great Eastern and esoteric traditions, which he saw as balancing and complementing the Western religious traditions.

There is a steadfast tradition in the 40 - year history of the Alcoholics Anonymous fellowship that practically every member has had a spiritual experience which «quite transforms his outlook and attitudes.»

Fabian and Schell also find in the Orthodox tradition a spiritual and aesthetic element to which they resonate, and they have drawn on the material it offers — visually, musically and liturgically.

The physical heart lies in the vicinity of the heart chakra (also called the anahata, which means «unstuck sound»), an important area worked on in yoga and most spiritual traditions.

Through reviews, articles and discussions, we want to spark intellectual thought, spiritual growth and a desire to follow the command of Colossians 2:8: «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.»

«Learning to live together, by developing an understanding of others and their history, traditions and spiritual values and, on this basis, creating a new spirit which, guided by recognition of our growing interdependence and common analysis of these risks and challenges of the future, would induce people to implement common projects or to manage the inevitable conflicts in an intelligent and peaceful way» (Delors et al., 1996, p. 22).

The islands have a tradition and mana (spiritual power) of their own, which visitors get a taste of while watching hula performances, sightseeing on tropical tours and savoring local dishes.

In this new series of paintings, he draws on Indian and Western European traditions to create a hybrid visual language with which to relate intimate tales of sensual and spiritual encounter.

The piece, which aims to compare Christianity with other world traditions, includes artifacts used in several non-Western religious traditions and video of the artist's spiritual music group, the Black Monks of Mississippi.

Despite the crude, thoroughly mundane picture surfaces, Martin's work has drawn for over 30 years on various traditions of spiritual abstraction, for which New York, where Martin has been living since 1975, was the melting pot.

Vierkant follows a late modern tradition, in which abstraction is not necessarily the spiritual, as it was for Wassily Kandinsky, but exactly what it is — a literalism that invites words while defying one to use them.

For more than thirty years now and despite the crude, thoroughly secular appearance of the images» surfaces, Martin's work has been tapping into various different traditions of spiritual abstraction, for which New York, where Martin has been living since 1975, has been the proverbial melting pot.

Each artist shows how the objet trouvé has been deployed in both European and African cultural traditions, as well as the ways in which commercial and spiritual notions of value can coexist in the same work.

«Germaine Richier» will explore the daring ways in which Richier's art bridges the tradition of classical figurative sculpture with an idiosyncratic visual language born of an anguished, searching, and, ultimately, spiritual post-World War psyche.

Deeply involved in meditation, which they both integrated into the practice of their art, and true music lovers, Tobey and Biberstein initially drew their sources of inspiration from the cultural tradition of the West, but were also partial to Eastern mysticism and obsessed by creating a spiritual reality through their writing.

Before the sister house in Chicago was carefully disassembled, Gates and his collaborators from the musical ensemble Black Monks of Mississippi — an improvisational group that combines black spiritual music with the blues and Eastern chanting traditions — recorded a series of twelve songs and performances in the South Side home, which was later screened in Kassel and accompanied there by another set of live performances by the Monks.

The hushed valleys, the shrouded light and the far away castles that momentarily focus our attention acknowledge kinship with Friedrich's spiritual quest and the northern romantic tradition which his pictures quintessentially define.

By referencing animistic notions by which artists ascribe a spiritual core to individual works, as well as 20th - century avant - gardes that mined the human subconscious and practiced a kind of social awareness, Kim's work has developed around the visual tradition of illusionism.

This article was originally published in Sacred Fire magazine, an initiative of the Sacred Fire Foundation which seeks to help all people re-discover and celebrate the sacred, interconnected nature of life, a perspective held by indigenous peoples and spiritual traditions everywhere which is the source of all personal, cultural and environmental well - being.