The phrase "ancient vision" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a perspective or insight that is derived from or reminiscent of ancient times or cultures.
Example: "The ancient vision of harmony with nature is something we should strive to reclaim in our modern lives."
Alternatives: "timeless perspective" or "age-old insight".
While it is true that there is a vast disparity between the ancient vision of society as divided into four ideal classes (varnas) and the contemporary reality of thousands of endogamous birth-groups (jatis, literally "births"), few would deny that Indian society is notably plural and hierarchical.
We in the Jewish community who want Israel to be strong and secure know that the path must be through justice and generosity toward the Palestinian people, and a renewal of the ancient vision of the Torah that commands us to "love the Other" – and that it is this, rather than military domination, that will in the long run secure Israel's safety.
It is a charming and ancient vision that refers to The Stones of Venice or to Angkor Thom and Indiana Jones.
These Elders are in this day the victors, having lived to see an ancient vision fulfilled, connecting back thousands of years.
Eyes were tearing that day, as a small sliver of hope floated in the air that we were watching history in the making, and a new era of peace is coming upon us, a realization of the ancient vision of the Prophets of Israel (Isaiah, 11 6): "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid".
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It is true that those ancient visions of politics which rooted themselves in a commitment to ethical cultivation and the common good did not have to contend with the absolutist claims of rival versions of monotheistic religions.
Last year, in a blog post called "Re-Sacramentalizing My Life," Dreher wrote, "We won't start to recover spiritually and morally until we begin to recover this ancient Christian vision to some significant degree — though how we Christians in postmodernity do so out of our own traditions is a very difficult question".
Doctors Without Borders embodies the ancient prophetic vision of an outpouring of God's Spirit on all flesh--not Christian flesh or white flesh or American flesh.
Goitia's parched man on his parched rock seems to become one with the ancient landscape, a vision enhanced by the cracks that have developed in the cheap paint subjected to a century of Mexican heat.
Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton and the author of "The Gnostic Gospels" (1979), places the biblical Book of Revelation — the seven-headed beast, the whore of Babylon, apocalyptic images of the end of times — in the context of other ancient narratives of vision and prophecy.
