Sentences with phrase «with ancient belief»

The latter half of the contention, but not the former, is in tune with modern belief; the former, but not the latter, was in tune with ancient belief: that both are valid and inseparable is the hypothesis of a philosophy that tries for a stand beyond the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns.»

Not exact matches

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

not the true versions of the religions, we've coupled our modern sensibilities with ancient religious beliefs.

Yet the ancient belief in transmutation is still with us.

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

So we fight back with logic and ask them to prove their beliefs with something substantiative that can be tested without a doubt and not some ancient texts written by MEN (no matter how many times they claim it's «HIS» word).

Nevertheless, it's not clear how belief in a personal God — a God who creates and who answers prayers — is to he aligned with the scientific view of the cosmos as an ancient universe governed by impersonal and tightly knit laws.

Modern science began, as did ancient Greek science, with the adoption of an ultra-simple and essentially negative notion of causality, the belief that, given the causal conditions, what concretely happens is the only thing that then and there could happen.

The resurrections (or more correctly resuscitations) which, according to ancient tradition had been performed by Elijah and Elisha, depended partly upon this belief.10 The same belief supplies us with the reason why the story of the raising of Lazarus lays such emphasis on the fact that he «had already been four days in the tomb».

Repellent as Gnostic belief and practice may be, it at least bespeaks the ancient obsession with salvation and purification.

You're right, this battle between good and evil is a very widespread train of Christianity beliefs, I was simply stating that many people have a difficult time trying to tie in Christianity with the ancient Maya beliefs.

Christians who believe with Cullmann that «the whole thinking of the New Testament is governed by belief in the Resurrection» will no doubt join him in denouncing all attempts, ancient or contemporary, to make of death a natural phenomenon (Cullmann, p. 19).

Even though, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, most people who call themselves religious tend to adhere to only those bits and pieces from scripture that appeal to them, by according undue respect for ancient religious beliefs in general, we nonetheless are suggesting that they are on par with conclusions that have been drawn from centuries of rational empirical investigation.

The acting and the dialogue aren't the greatest with Harrison Ford delivering the best performance, but director George Lucas creates a world out of nothing but ancient religious beliefs.

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

The film creates its own, more politically evolved version of Kipling's literary ecosystem, with its ancient animal beliefs and practices, such as predators and prey declaring a «water truce» during a drought so that they can all drink unmolested from a parched watering hole.

With a good command of the English and French languages, my research interests have been particularly focused on Cultural Studies (Folk Culture, Mythology, Ancient lore, Superstition and Popular Beliefs, Life After Death... [Read more...]

As usual with different and especially ancient cultures, the Egyptians had some very interesting beliefs.

At the spas of the Riviera Maya, healing wisdom and relaxation therapies from around the world are blended with indigenous organic elements and ancient Mayan beliefs in the powers of earth, wind, water and fire.

Between Hacienda de San Antonio and Colima are several ancient villages, each with its own Amerindian traditions, beliefs and festive occasions.

In the modern martial arts epic, the classic tension of star - crossed lovers is amplified by the presence of four reigning powers — clans with an ancient rivalry as old as civilization itself — and beliefs rooted in a tradition of warfare.

By reducing concept to a simple idea and aesthetics to basic geometric shapes while introducing an ancient Japanese belief that beauty exists in imperfection, Stout creates a visual language that is timely, critical, and rich with texture.

The surreal and oneiric quality of Jacanamijoy's work is largely informed by the rites and spiritual beliefs of the Inga community, the indigenous ethnic group he belongs to, connecting ancient traditions with contemporary sensibilities.

The nature - based faiths of ancient civilisations and indigenous tribes melded with Christianity, European values and animist beliefs from Africa.

For instance, he hung his tapestry Map of Truths and Beliefs (2011) next to a Tibetan thangka painting depicting the Wheel of Life, and he paired an ancient Ghanaian ceremonial headdress with a deliberately aged helmet he had made himself.