Yet no scriptwriter of such a crime and corruption movie would have dared to so overdo the hubris as to have the president topple himself in the very week Fifa released its own actual movie in America, of self-glorification and Blatter sanctification.
Hugh Brogan rescues Tocqueville from sanctification by the right and contemptuous disregard by the left, giving us back the man, his times and his writing.______________________________________________Mellon: An American Life By David Cannadine.
The rationale for sacrifice is that everything belongs to God; the central point in the sacrifice was the sanctification of the offering, and the surrender of it to God.
Holiness movement, religious movement that arose in the 19th century among Protestant churches in the United States, characterized by a doctrine of sanctification centring on a postconversion experience.
Calvinist theology, with its emphasis on action in the world and its association of success with sanctification, even with election, was well suited, in the use made of it by German state churches, to act as an aggressive creed of social discipline.
Sacrifice as a sacramental communal meal may involve the idea of the god as a participant in the meal or as identical with the food consumed; it may also involve the idea of a ritual meal at which either some primordial event such as creation is repeated or the sanctification of the world is symbolically renewed.
The seder opens with the cup of sanctification (Kiddush), the first of four cups of wine drunk by the celebrants.
In doctrine the church stands in the tradition of Arminian Methodism, emphasizing God's grace, and regards its unique mission to be the promotion of entire sanctification, which enables a person to live a sinless life, as a work of grace subsequent to conversion.
Almost all of these Holiness bodies arose in order to facilitate the proclamation of a second-blessing experience of sanctification with its concomitants, a life of separation from worldly values and adherence to practical holiness views, according to the Holiness churches, that were no longer endorsed by the larger denominations.
After the evening service, each Jewish household begins the first of three festive Sabbath meals by reciting the Kiddush ("sanctification" of the Sabbath) over a cup of wine.
An important aspect of Sabbath and festival observance is sanctification.
