Sentences with phrase «with mystery religions»

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LoL, so you've just solved the age old mystery of religion with one dismissive comment.

In a single dense volume this fine survey offers an account of the whole by close consideration of the various parts: sacrifices, religious associations, domestic religion, the cult of the dead, mystery religions, magic, the cult of the rulers, and philosophical religion (e.g., Stoicism), with a concluding chapter on Gnosticism.

His work is indeed fascinating and shows some of the great mysteries of the universe with possible explainations (though string theory is a joke), but again, I don't see how he has disproven any religion, beyond Fundamentalist Christianity that insists evolution isn't real or that we live on a Young Earth.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

In addition, the remarkable similarities between Christianity and other Mystery Religions of the time suggest that Christanity was an evolutionary hybrid of Jewish Messianism with pagan Savior God mythology.

Blake and every radical Christian seer have not only issued a violent protest against the «Christian God,» but they have likewise condemned the mystery and repression of religion as a fundamental obstacle to the realization of a union with the life and Word of Jesus.

Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.

This image of the Jewish people as «elder brothers» and the Jewish religion as «intrinsic» to the mystery of the Church touches» with tenderness and mercy» a wound that has remained open for two thousand years.

If ones» connections with the Mystery is deepened and cultivated by a specific religion good for them.

This then becomes «the mystery of the kingdom,» with baptism as its initiation rite, and Christianity becomes a mystery religion.

I remember a British - American journalist telling me ¯ a man who often says he is a hater of God, a man who attacks religion with delicious ferocity again and again ¯ that one argument that almost does convince him about God is the mystery of our own conscience.

In our dialogue with other traditions, the key to sustaining conversation (rather than cutting it short by claims that others will interpret as arrogant) is to keep before ourselves the possibility that in some way or other all religions may be relative, culturally specific ways of looking toward an ineffable mystery.

Without reducing all religions to a quest for one common essence — which the pluralist position is often accused of doing — and without making the simplistic claim that all religions are saying or doing «the same thing,» it nevertheless seems that in their own widely divergent ways they all seek and express union with something like what we have been calling «mystery.»

Each of the four ways must be critically connected with the other three, or else it runs the risk of losing its religious character altogether (if by «religion» we mean a receptivity to the reality of sacred mystery).

Most of the differences among the religions have to do with their understandably one - sided attachment to the particular sacramental images, events, experiences, or persons that they choose as representative of mystery.

However, his own interpretation of his experience was undoubtedly colored by various factors such as personal history and Jewish messianic expectations, possibly combined with elements of Hellenistic mystery religions with which he would certainly have been familiar.

Although Bultmann agrees fully with Bousset that the concepts Paul used in his christology were taken over from the mystery religions rather than handed down from Jesus, he is not misled by this fact into ignoring the decisive role Jesus» historicity plays in the theology of Paul: «The historical person of Jesus makes Paul's preaching gospel.»

«Mystic» is derived from the Greek mysterion, which was, of course, associated with the secret cults of Greek religion and thus entailed a sense of mystery.

From this Hellenistic theology there developed the understanding of baptism as new birth and new creation - ideas familiar to the mystery religions, but corrected by linking the interpretation with eschatology and by introducing moral obligations.

If we look at the history of Christianity, the early church was also faced with a vast amount of plural voices as well — the various cults of the barbarians, local deities, and mystery religions.

Some of these have affinities with Jewish proselyte baptism, others with the practice of circumcision, and still others with certain aspects of the «mystery religions `.

Particulary troubling is the way that Rome has pandered to (committed fornication with) pagan religions (Mystery Babylon) for over 2,000 years.

Whitehead says, «For religion is concerned with our reactions of purpose and emotion due to our personal measure of intuition into the ultimate mystery of the universe.»

The religions descended from Abraham, for example, have a unique appreciation of mystery and a distinctive understanding of the salvation that coincides with it.

The fact that mystery bears the character of futurity, however, does not make prophetic religions less mystical than any others, if by mysticism we mean a longing for and experience of union with ultimate reality.

Cohen was equally forthright when, in a 1986 interview with Robert Sword, he spoke of how we «sense that there is a will that is behind all things, and we're also aware of our own will, and it's the distance between those two wills that creates the mystery that we call religion.»

Others are convinced that for the most part people have at least some sense of a dimension of mystery and that therefore religion, understood broadly as a «sense of mystery,» still lives on with almost the same degree of explicitness as it has in the past.

Harpur (and Kuhn) seem to reject Christianity as a hoax and seek to replace it with gnostism or early egyptian mystery religion.

With over 400 pages, this one - of - a-kind religion education artifact is a Megabundle which includes the following rosaries for you, your family, and your students to color and assemble together: Joyful Mystery Luminous Mystery Glorious Mystery Sorrowful Mystery These rosaries can be used in many unique and creative ways.

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam - a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion - a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.

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Western religions certainly have their share of practitioners in Japan, but those faiths still have an air of exoticism about them: Vaguely familiar, yet foreign enough to spice up a work with a dash of mystery.

Earlier, he had been painting scenes of urban life with a sense of isolation and mystery; after World War II, he turned to timeless themes of death and survival, and to concepts drawn from ancient myths and religions.