How To Use desacralize In A Sentence
- ‘When government attempts to rationalize its display of sacred texts by claiming secular purposes and secular effects, the inevitable tendency is to distort and desacralize the sacred text,’ the brief states.
- Is our study of the past to be nothing more than an extension of modernity's bulldozing effort to master all of reality, so that time itself is desacralized and made to serve the needs of the Almighty Present?
- Traditionally then, women are desacralized at the height of their bodily power.
- Christianity made science possible by helping to desacralize nature and also in helping to preserve much ancient scientific literature destroyed by “pagan” invaders of Rome. Think Progress » Unlikely ‘War on Christmas’ skeptic:
- In the privileged moments before his death, Richard thus conceptualizes and exemplifies one of the characteristic outcomes of the desacralized world of modernity.
- This includes all those who wish to make the Church of Jesus Christ into a purely humanitarian society, to rob her of her supernatural character, to secularize and desacralize her. Bizarre
- This pure faith erected a wall between our understanding of God and our understanding of nature, and in effect desacralized the natural world.
- Then we needed to desacralize the world, which we did through religious developments, as paradoxically we saved religion by sending the gods into the heavens while leaving the earth “atheistic” and mechanical in the doing. Film review by Charles G. Lambdin: Creationism by Any Other Name - The Panda's Thumb
- The language is actually real English and not committee-speak designed to desacralize the liturgy with fortune cookie inanities. Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!
- In an evocative account vivid with textual detail, she exposes the sexual violence inherent in the discourse that desacralized the monarchy as it denounced ‘the reign of pleasure as privilege, and of pleasure as feminine’.