"The Roman Catholic church has centuries of documents
sacralizing subordination, colonialism and misogyny.
They agree that any proper theology of creation must resist
sacralizing nonhuman creatures.
Finally, we are not playing a game of demonizing one side and
sacralizing another.
Megalomania sends him galloping into geopolitical--and now meteorological--thickets,
sacralizing politics and bending theology to premature, intemperate policy endorsements," she said.
The Revolution, too, was a
sacralizing machine (Hunt 1988), allegorizing the People in "Marianne", a totemic figure supplanting the Virgin Mary, and transforming the sacred-tree imagery of kingship into revolutionary "liberty trees" (Harden 1998: 171-174).
One particularly concentrated chapter, with similarly astute attention to both musical content and dramatic significance, discusses the "antipodes" of God and Lucifer both musically and theologically, connecting their exaggerated characterizations to the difficulty of "
sacralizing" a modern drama that has secular, contemporary resu-minces (pp.
For example, his writing of ecstatic trance in relation to "the
sacralizing arts of virtualization" (p.
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We can end up with a 'grid of victimization,' involving 'perpetrator, victim, survivor, bystander, gray zone, rescuer' and now 'secondary witnesses with
sacralizing, sublimating, or messianic inclinations.' Trauma leads on to the consideration of violence--another tempting combination of critique and fascination--and a rich discussion of Heideggers 1935 essay on the 'origin of the work of art,' completed soon after his notorious Nazi-inspired Rectorship of the University of Freiburg.
However, there was significant consensus in the conference that the Bible must not be utilized to justify oppression or supply simplistic commentary on contemporary events, thus
sacralizing the conflict and ignoring its socio-political, economic and historical dimensions.
Unlike the Mennonites, they initiated their physical and spiritual move into the new space with an elaborate set of
sacralizing rituals.
Understanding the divine as ineffable and imminent helps redefine what is sacred, which leads to a greater appreciation for (even
sacralizing of) nature and of personal experience as loci of truth.