Some argue this portrays the Christian God as disturbingly similar to gods who demanded human
sacrifice to appease their anger.
(1) In these chapters the ritual practices inherited by the Qin are criticized in favor of a
sacrifice to Heaven: "En fait, le sacrifice jiao adresse au Ciel est le rite le plus important au regard des regles redigees par les saints d'autrefois.
Jephthah's Daughter: A Lament is a ceremony which offers an opportunity to grieve the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter, and to ponder the meaning of her
sacrifice to us today.
The Creator of life allowed the sacrifice of his only son, Christ, as a final
sacrifice to eliminate all other human sacrifice.
Golden argues instead for another kind of sacrifice, whose qualities are much closer to the ancient, pre-Christian concept, which had nothing to do with suffering, but rather indicated "an expansive, empowering, collective action." She wants to reorient our notions and experiences of female
sacrifice to refer to a way of being in the world "that balances autonomous individuality with the awareness that our own welfare can flow from the well-being of others."
Papers by Barnes and Grzimek move from locally derived
sacrifice to contemporary forms expressed through the adoption of Christianity.
But what worker or manager will
sacrifice to make a company successful ten years from now if he or she knows that there is a high probability that they will not be around in ten years?
What are you willing to
sacrifice to pursue your dreams?
The sacrifice of various animals is symbolic of bowing before the will of Almighty Allah and signifies that we the Muslims are ready to offer any
sacrifice to please Him.
In 2007, the Temple Mount Faithful and the Sanhedrin rabbis purchased a herd of sheep and petitioned the Supreme Court to allow a Pesach
sacrifice to be offered on the Temple Mount.
What would we have to
sacrifice to respond to this public emergency, this epidemic of poverty, so that those of us who live in the impoverished pockets of American society can escape it?
He instituted the Sacrifice of the Mass, which contains the Sacrament of The Eucharist so that thereafter we could continue to receive the benefits of His Supreme
Sacrifice to the end of time.
The brahman priest's relationship to brahman is laid out in terms of eating, so that the ida or sacrificial meal is seen as a vestige of the way of transferring the violence of the
sacrifice to contending sacrificers.
Increasingly the church is teaching that because sacrifice acceptable to God must be voluntary, the only suffering appropriate for
sacrifice to God is that which is either unavoidable--as in the chronic, untreatable pain of the seriously ill or aged--or necessary in order to secure some greater good--as the pain of childbirth or the suffering encountered in working for racial justice in a racist society.
32), the principal act of the virtue of religion is devotion, which moves us to pray, adore and make
sacrifice to God.
