Sentence examples for means of redemption from inspiring English sources

This is why, for Stevens, "Poetry is a means of redemption," a substitute religion.

Bernard revolutionized Crusade ideology, asserting that the Crusade was not merely an act of charity or a war to secure the holy places but a means of redemption.

Many participants also believed that undertaking what they saw as holy war was a means of redemption and a way of achieving expiation of sins.

Lars is a difficult, maybe impossible character, a holy fool and a martyr in waiting, a subject of mockery and a means of redemption.

However badly they stain a brilliant if frustrating tradition – and nothing could have been worse than their thuggish attempt to neutralise Spanish brilliance in the last World Cup final – they carry always the means of redemption.

Kafka himself looked upon his writing and the creative act it signified as a means of "redemption," as a "form of prayer" through which he might be reconciled to the world or might transcend his negative experience of it.

Instead of seeing scientific knowledge as the means of human redemption, he regarded it as the greatest obstacle to redemption.

As with any kind of sectarian indoctrination, religion can become a kind of healing or means of achieving redemption after a dissolute past, which corresponds perfectly with the apocalyptic vision of Isis.

Even then, he can't help mourning his loss of faith and personal integrity, a yearning that's both the source of his bravery and the means of his redemption.

An alternative would be an agreement where the business purchases the interest of a departing shareholder by means of a redemption agreement.

Greek myths have a way of offering even the most tragic heroes the means for redemption.