Sentences with phrase «with cultic»

He did not specifically cite the congregation as the locus of the worshipping Christian community, nor was he sanguine about the long continuation of any institutional form of the church, but his acuity in aligning the essential faith of Christianity with its cultic expression in specific communities provides an explanation for the present strength of the local church.

Verses 10 - 19 deal with cultic concerns — the sabbath year (vv.

Apodictic law explicitly deals with cultic or theological concerns (e.g., 22:20); it is implicitly more closely related to the particular life of covenant Israel and the Yahweh faith.

In that time, the word was associated with cultic practices of women priestesses using their sexuality to dominate men for selfish gain, which applied to specifically this church, in this location at this time.

Not exact matches

Unlike in the cultic churches, where people who step out of line with the leader's vision and dare to tell the truth are destroyed — or «thrown under the bus in driscollspeak — here, they are impotent, they try to shame, impugn, backhandedly discredit, all while appearing above it all, and yet, they are paper dragons.

We must reject extreme positions which seek to clarify all possible uncertainties in Old Testament prophetism by analogy with associations of cultic personnel in ancient Mesopotamia, the broader West Semitic areas, and in Arabia.

Isaiah becomes one with the cult prophet, his words reflecting living cultic conditions, the core of which is the institution of sacral kingship.10

There is a version in Exodus Thirty - four, which is basically from the Yahwist document and which is almost totally cultic and not ethical, having to do with worship forms, not behavior.

Catholics and Jews are at least as strong as mainstream Protestants, and sectarian and cultic Protestants, beginning with Mormons, are, collectively, stronger.

Among other themes, it describes the festival calendars, lists sexual taboos, deals with personal cultic purity and presents the Sabbatical and Jubilee cycles.

But on this foundation it sets a temporary superstructure of cultic apparatus for mediating covenant communion with God; and this apparatus the New Testament replaces with the new and better covenant (that is, the better version of God's one gracious covenant) which is founded on better promises and maintained by the sacrifice and intercession of Jesus Christ, the better and greater high priest.

It presents first an analysis of man's communion with God («communion in God»), including a review of the main types of cultic activity (sacrifice, mystery, prayer) and of religious attitudes (mystery and revelation on the divine side, adoration and edification on the human side).

The sociologist of religion, interested in the study of a cultic group, can not be satisfied with reviewing its theology as the foundation of the theory and practice of fellowship among its members.

Rather, the apprehension of the supreme «I» was such that certain cultic practices and taboos associated with his worship appeared altogether irrelevant.

The bread and hymns / prayers which mark Jesus» cultic action at the Last Supper are the New Testament fulfilment known as the Eucharist of the Old Testament zebach toda, with the unique bloody death of Jesus on the cross taking the place of the temple sacrifices.

When this vision becomes blurred, neglected, threatened or subject to neglect, the fundamentals are not only reasserted, but reasserted in specific formulas or cultic forms that are often confused with the fundamentals themselves.

In an ambitious project of precisely this nature, William Everett and T.J. Bachmeyer work out an elaborate paradigm in which they interrelate three theological approaches — cultic (Catholic), prophetic (Protestant), and ecstatic (Anabaptist)-- with three sociological traditions — functionalism (unitary view of society), dualism (conflictual), and pluralism (balance of powers)-- with three psychological viewpoints — conflictual, fulfillment, and equilibrium.

He suggests that God breathing life into the man of dust (Gen 2:7) can be likened to the «vivification» of a pagan cultic image, and has «nothing to do with infusing a Platonic soul» (p. 75)-- a statement which seems too strong to me.

They were part of a cultic activity and were associated with ritualistic acts, religious ceremonials, sacred dancing, and drama.

But Rabshakeh is acquainted with the reforms of Hezekiah.4 Hezekiah has removed holy things, the Canaanite deities, the brazen serpent which had become an object of worship, the more or less pagan cultic sites.

The prophet's expressed impatience with or even intolerance of the cultus is seen now as castigation not of cult qua cult, not of cultic practice per se, but of the cultus in its present guise.

We can not at this point follow the tragic, challenging story of Jeremiah, but with reference to the law he saw, more clearly than any other man of his time, that its essence could not be fulfilled by cultic busyness at the temple.

To begin with, as James Hopewell pointed out, -LSB-[9] worship «in Jesus» name» must not be understood as cultic worship in the strict sense.

Most important, the cultic betrayal of the covenant was inevitably linked with its moral betrayal: those who offer cakes to the queen of heaven are the same ones who oppress the weak and who shed the blood of the innocent.

With Aaron's consent and counsel, they make what they take to be a representation of «the LORD» in this form, and hold a full - fledged cultic celebration to «the LORD» (vs. 5).

The first section is characterized by the formula, «If so - and - so... he (the offender) shall do thus - and - so...» This is termed «casuistic» law, and is generally thought to have been derived largely from the Canaanites; for the most part it has to do with what we should commonly call secular rather than specifically cultic or religious matters.

In ancient Israel - as is still true to a considerable extent in Judaism - women played no role in the cultic festivals, save that they were in no sense excluded from accompanying the male members of the family to the sanctuary and supporting the cultic ceremony with their presence (see I Sam.

In chapter 24, Israel's acceptance of and commitment to this Covenant with its fundamental responsibilities is symbolized and celebrated in a cultic act which includes the shedding of blood and a communion meal, both signifying the absolutely irrevocable quality of the commitment.

Apodictic law has to do with specifically cultic or theological matters (for example, 22:20); it is implicitly much more closely related to the religion of the Covenant community.

I came into contact not only with exorcism and sorcery, but also with forms of magic in cultic dance, words, writings, and pictures.

Where intimations of eternal life do appear in the Hebrew Bible, they are driven by the same passion for monotheism and longing for communion with God that, at an earlier stage, had to exert itself against preoccupation (especially of a cultic sort) with the dead.

In her joyous cultic celebrations she rehearsed the fundamental theological scheme of Yahweh's initiating Word, Israel's response of faith, and the resultant redemption from slavery into freedom; but at the same time she knew (and found herself compelled to record) that the Word is fulfilled always with characteristic imprecision, and in tension and anguish.

It is important to remember that we are dealing with a part of the Old Testament story which had a long oral history before it assumed its written form, and no doubt the oral form was shaped, preserved, and periodically «celebrated» at some particular, ancient cultic center.

3:1 - 19 This is set now, like a psalm, with directions for its (cultic) performance.

Both sections are concerned — sometimes in closely corresponding or even identical terms — with the physical means, forms, nature, dimensions, and personnel of the cultic - religious institution, the first section ostensibly as plans and the second as detailing the actual construction, realization, and inauguration of the full - fledged cultic institution.

Of course holiness is translated into elaborate cultic and ritual rites and regulations and it is with such that the hulk of the Holiness Code is concerned.

I shared that because you were really great in this article about not being «cultic» about there only being one way to exercise, and not feeling like you can sit with the «cool kids» (I can't remember if you said that, or if someone else did) if you don't Cross Train.

Kicked out of the Surrealist movement by André Breton at age 19, he served in the U.S. army during WWII, ran a restaurant in Tangier, invented a «cut - up» technique of Dada - inspired writing that he shared with William Burroughs (who called him «the only man I truly respected»), and created a brand of experimental art that ranged from cultic drawings to his famed «Dreamachine» of 1961, which used a flicker effect to mesmerize audiences.

The word can signify both a symbol or a sign, but it can also refer to a symbolic and cultic image that is loaded with meaning.