Sentence examples for spiritualize from inspiring English sources

There is a tendency in prophetic preaching to spiritualize those aspects of religion that remain unfulfilled; therein lie the roots of eschatology, which is concerned with the last times, and apocalyptic literature, which describes the intervention of God in history to the accompaniment of dramatic, cataclysmic events.

Reformers tried to purge Islam of all non-Qurʾānic ideas and picturesque elaborations of the texts, whereas the mystics tried to spiritualize them as far as possible.

Hurrell tried to spiritualize her in the same way that other photographers had spiritualized Garbo, and Crawford, as the thirties wore on, tended to stiffen, as if she were trying to live up to the images of her in magazines.

These movies don't only eroticize wealth and its accouterments; they spiritualize it, too.

It tries, to some extent, to resist the temptation to spiritualize Kate by finding meaning or comfort in her terrible situation even as it succumbs, in the end, to creepy and unconvincing redemptive impulses.

Suhrawardi appears to spiritualize Avicenna's Peripatetic epistemology with a greatly Platonic reading, now that the access to the ultimate reality is guaranteed through divine photic illumination.

In biblical religion, intercession is spiritualized in view of a consciousness of the messianic (salvatory) mission.

At the same time, he described the possibilities of a properly understood religiousness that calms human aggressiveness, "spiritualizes" conflicts, and is able to pacify the alienated unconscious mind.

Nominally Christian groups that diverged from the Inquisition's orthodoxy, such as the followers of the mystical Alumbrado movement and adherents of Erasmianism (a spiritualized Christian belief system influenced by the teachings of humanist Desiderius Erasmus), were subjected to intense persecution throughout the 16th and into the 17th century.

To 10 Jan, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London SE1 (0844 875 0073) Spiritualized The space-rock band will play their seminal 1997 album Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space, complete with orchestra and choir, from start to finish, in a sublime spectacle.

For Gunkel, although the types of the psalms were originally cultic, the majority of the poems in the existing Psalter were composed privately in imitation of the cultic poems and were intended for a more personal, "spiritualized" worship.