Sentences with phrase «way ancient religions»

And in the way ancient religions worshipped the power of the sun, wind or sea, we are supposed bow down before the unstoppable power of market forces.

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Yooz, the way you just used the word «myth» shows you can't be a very good scholar of ancient literature or religion, if you are one at all.

But what do they share with religions such as those embraced by the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, early native American Indians, or the thousands of other religions made up by isolated cultures not influenced in any way by Christianity or its founding influences?

The Renaissance and the Reformation reversed this long process which had led to the resurgence of ancient religion in a Christian dress, and they made way for the emergence of the new world with its renewed emphasis on the human scene.

The ancient mystery religions all the way to the secret societies of today.

After all, the dominant religions in the United States keep their followers by encouraging them to remain ignorant of other religions out of fear they will find out that there's basically nothing new under the sun, and that the ideas of Christianity date all the way back to ancient Egyptian religion ant the mythology surrounding Horus and Set.

The apparent moral weakness and inefficiency of the creedal churches, together with the wider knowledge of the religions of foreign and ancient peoples, produced in many minds a critical attitude toward the church, comparable in many ways to the situation which had threatened the medieval establishment centuries before.

Sanders proposed that ancient Jewish texts reflected a «pattern of religion» he gave the shorthand title of «covenantal nomism» and defined this way:

Another way of reading the Bible is for historical reconstruction of ancient cultures, ideas, or religions.

And what better way to draw more non-believers to your new religion than to base your new religion on one that already exists — the god of Abraham of ancient mythology.

Other groups were the Scotists using the works of the philosopher Duns Scotus, championed by the Franciscans; the Thomists using the texts of Thomas Aquinas, championed by the Dominicans — Aquinas had worked philosophy and religion into a great single Summa, transposing Aristotle into the context of Christian theology under the influence of Augustine and Bernard, in which fides quaerens intellectum, faith seeking understanding, was integrated organically with philosophy; finally there was also a via antiqua, the ancient way, which was centred on Plato, but was also used to describe the Thomists.

The Force is described to Luke in the original Star Wars as the source of a Jedi knight's powers, «an energy field created by all living things» that binds us and the galaxy together, and derided by an Imperial officer as «sorcerer's way» and an «ancient religion.»

WPIE is a holistic «dietary lifestyle» — it is not a diet; rather, it's a way of life — based on an integration of ancient food from 1) Eastern healing systems (such as Ayurvedic Medicine); 2) world religions and cultural traditions (from Buddhism to Yogic Nutrition, etc.); 3) and modern, Western nutritional science.

WD's Guide to Online Dating Click, surf and type your way to love by following these basic rules Judaism (originally from Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, Judah; via Latin and Greek) is an ancient, monotheistic, Abrahamic religion with the Torah as

Ancient mythology and modern cosmology come together in the story of Genesis, told in Noah's own words and illustrated with imagery reminiscent of Cosmos, a wedding science and religion in a way respectful of both.

The figure, through its association with the famous myth of Persephone, offers the opportunity to open up the ways in which religion permeated every aspect of life in ancient Greece.

The Eastern practice of yoga is much more than just a physical workout or a great way to manage stress, it is an ancient practice embedded in Hindu religion with thousands of different styles and approaches.

«By the mid - and late - 1970s,» wrote the curator Richard Marshall in his essay for the exhibition «American Art Since 1970» at the Whitney Museum, «painting had moved further away from the confines of the Minimalist approach — even from a negative reaction to it — and the artists [Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Lois Lane, Neil Jenney, Bill Jensen and Elizabeth Murray] inaugurated new ways to treat subject matter and meaning -LSB-...] there emerged a move against an insular, elitist attitude towards art and what it is, should be, or must be -LSB-...] artists began to look at more diverse visual repertory: commercial art, advertising, fashion, television and movies, popular culture, the decorative arts, rugs, religion, ancient artifacts, and Middle Eastern Cultures.»