Sentences with phrase «through cultic»

A man can not through cultic, sacramental means bring himself into closer relation to the remote God, nor obtain for himself a divine nature.

If it is primarily applied to the first element, it is a positive, but not an exclusive statement, since the saving power and importance of the redemptive work of Christ (as the worship of God and the sanctification of man) affect man not only through their cultic presentation in the liturgy.

Jesus does not think of man in terms of the anthropological dualism of Hellenistic mysticism; that is, he does not speak of the tragedy of man, of the entangling of the divine soul in the earthly body, of its purification and liberation, either through cultic means or through contemplation, devotion, and absorption of self into the Infinite.

Not exact matches

An atonement theology directed towards the assuaging of guilt before God is a powerful gospel — in contexts where God is immediately and almightily real; or where (as we may note more skeptically) a religion is still powerful enough to hold up before its host culture the image of a holy and righteous deity before whom none is worthy except through the appropriate cultic observations.

The theme is simple and single: they stoutly refuse to make any theological or cultic compromise in the face of the King's dire threats (it is Nebuchadnezzar by name, but obviously Antiochus Epiphanes in intent), and through every trial they emerge unscathed.

Pederson sees Exodus 1 - 15 as «obviously of a cultic character» aiming at glorifying the god of the people of the paschal (Passover) feast through an exposition of the historical event that created the people» (p. 728).

In all this, too, it is possible to discern the traits of kingship in the portrait of man, expressed not only through the naming ritual but also in the ancient cultic symbolism of the tending and watering of the tree of life, a sacral duty of the king.

Perhaps the reminder is again in order that Israel's interest in the original «event» rests predominantly in its present and continuing meaning that the form of the narrative before us is unquestionably cultically conditioned, that is, shaped by the influences of cultic circles at centers of worship in which, the tradition was maintained; and that this cultic tradition returns an image of Moses formed out of long years of meditation on the total significance of his life and time through the succeeding generations of Israel's life.

«Growing Kids God's Way — Not Ezzo's» «Clarifications» «On the Cultic Mindset, Ezzoism, and Sleeping Through the Night» by Dr. Bob Bixby, Morningstar Baptist Church