theocentric

Theocentric in nature, spirituality played a huge role in their everyday lives.

But the leading position, whether occupied by the theocentric or the anthropocentric view, cannot be firmly established in the long run."

In any case, theocentric vision remained intact.

She, evidently, is Christocentric, while another (as I have always been) is theocentric.

The colonists used the Gregorian calendar, the Latin script and used theocentric art, music, literature.

He described a series of concentric spheres each including a hierarchical organization of spirits in a setting more earth-like than theocentric.

Bharat Chandra marks the transition between Precolonial theocentric poetry and modern poetry.

These stresses have created the need to give an evangelical interpretation to the sacrifice of the Mass in order to provide a more theocentric view to Real presence.

Ethics from a Theocentric perspective, volume 1 "Theology and ethics" (1981) University of Chicago Press.

This exalted anthropomorphism denotes that man is both the theocentric purpose of future creation, and the anthropocentric embodiment of the divine manifestations on high.

The approximately 50 performance rites, conducted over the past 30 years, move through transformations from an egocentric to more sociocentric and increasingly worldcentric and theocentric identity.

Meanwhile, the Calvinist/Reformed tradition is seen as more theologically theocentric, as it places its doctrine of the sovereignty of God ("the Father") at the center.

But unlike the medieval and early to mid sixteenth-century Piers, his Elizabethan successors discarded the comprehensive, reformist vision underwritten by belief in a theocentric social norm.

Evangelical Catholic spirituality is characteristically more theocentric and christocentric than that of Pietist, rationalistic, and Liberal Protestant Lutheranism.

The anthropocentric view reached its apogee in the 19th century; the dominant theological view in the 20th century is again theocentric, though more abstract than in the ancient, medieval or Reformation churches.

Two metaphors are used to describe the sephirot, their theocentric manifestation as the Trees of Life and Knowledge, and their anthropocentric correspondence in man, exemplified as Adam Kadmon.

Early Persian historiography comes from Mesopotamian-created "Quasi-history" in which "narratives [are] embellished with theocentric conceptions, ideological preachings, and romantic lore" (CAIS, p. 1-2).

He became the most famous proponent of theocentric naturalism and the empirical method in American theology and catalyzed the emergence of Religious Naturalism in the latter part of the 20th century.

But religion had long been losing its power to shape and control behaviour and external forces had long sapped the traditional theocentric views of Europeans, even if it was only in 1882 that Nietzsche pronounced the notorious words: 'God is dead'.

Christocentric is a doctrinal term within Christianity, describing theological positions that focus on Jesus Christ, the second person of the Christian Trinity, in relation to the Godhead / God the Father (theocentric) or the Holy Spirit (pneumocentric).

According to contemporary Slovene literary critics, especially Marija Pirjevec, Boris Paternu and Janko Kos, the meaning of the sonnet is centered on the problem of insecurity and unhappiness of a free subject detached from the theocentric world view.

It is that Christians have had two overlapping but quite different sorts of idea of heaven: a fully theocentric one - preferred by most theologians and spiritual writers - and an anthropocentric one - often more popular - in which social concerns, such as reunion with family and friends, prevail.

Agape, by contrast, is spontaneous, unconditional, theocentric, self-giving, self-sacrificial: in other words, we can love others and God with a love of agape in which we reject all self-gain and interest and surrender ourselves to other and love them purely for themselves.