Sentence examples for worldly god from inspiring English sources

We hear from a 17th-century Viennese preacher ("After Satan Christians have no greater enemies than the Jews"), Karl Marx ("What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god?

With regards to local gods, senior monks made a clear distinction between the 'real gods' of Buddhism and the local worldly gods whose capabilities they dismissed, despite their ritual relationships.

In addition, every day, a monk chants scriptures in the 'protector temple' (gon-khang) of Bengpo monastery and devotes a few minutes to entreating the worldly gods to protect the earth from natural disasters.

This is a re-enactment of the subduing of the worldly gods, a common theme in Tibetan Buddhism, recalling the initial control exerted over the landscape by the incoming religion (Ramble 1999).

They practiced stern asceticism to restrict contact with the creator's world while looking forward to eventual salvation in the realm of the extra-worldly God.

It is easy to see, then, why those who consider free market capitalism to be a sacred system never to be abridged, and believe only one true extra-worldly God exists, find danger in both Earth Day and Mother Earth Day.

Using a supra-worldly god invoked through the use of tantric practice, they order the yul -lha to protect people and not to punish them.

Local or regional gods are distinguished from supra-worldly gods (jigten le de pe-lha), who have moved up to the heavens through their own efforts in acquiring merit, and the Tantric gods of Buddhist meditation (Samuel 1993).

Holistic Reformed Theology anchors itself in Heaven and calls us to this-worldly relevance: God inserted us at this time and place to do his will -- now.

Cue Weber's Protestant ethic: for the conservative majority, worldly success connotes God's blessing.

His rebellions were against a world that placed materialism and worldly riches above God and he chose to be different by opting for his Lord and Saviour above all else.