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they're sacred to me here from hi. differ being the connection between humans and god. to me, that's holy. you moved the possibility of a bond to go to. that's what holy means to me. i the only suck when someone says holy, they also always mean the unknown to get the holy is actually with divine as a courtesy, ah haile gets in temper in the holy area of a temple is usually inaccessible, closed off. something that mustn't be touched that gives you pause something hidden a taboo of morals. i taboo. * ah sanctus sank to sanctus. holy holy holy!
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the chant has been part of the christian liturgy for at least 1500 years. all religions recognize some things as holy. a mountain such as allude will in australia sacred to the aborigines. as city like mecca, wholly to muslims. oh all the bible is sacred to christians. that's why they call it holy scripture. in the past, the word holy suggested a special proximity to god holiness was associated with a divine. but what does the concept holy mean to people to day? ah, madonnas and saints often feature in robert feathers work above his studio in
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berlin. the german painter has arranged a chapel full of his own works ot her soft grey. oh, jim, her teacher come choral singing a few years ago. he says he came to his art through a vague longing, la, and it was the same feeling that brought him to singing some kreger addison, uncle, i 1st discovered gregorian chant for myself about 10 years ago. when i spent 14 days in tuscany and the come orderly monastery goes. so the foot of vickers on there was singing there and i joined. i sat on them and was very moved by the singing. then i came to berlin bolted and joined a quire called carrasco. la mixing, singing is very beneficial for your state of mind, and this is the especially gregorian chants acquired, which is more than a 1000 years old. so naturally,
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it touches your soul either through his era. ah ah berlin dazed rather feather has been exhibiting his work internationally for almost 30 years. his paintings often deal with the concept of faith and the church . some were inspired by the poetry of the 16th century spanish mystic john of the cross. mm. mm. other paintings refer to saints and still others refer to the infinite. ah, my was reading the bible even before i started school, did i already knew how to read? having dana back then it wasn't so much the content,
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but the language that fascinated me. later i started to play the piano and the organ in church tomorrow and i've always painted and well how did i come to the saints? i didn't have an epiphany or anything like that. it just developed over time. my painting is an essence, a search for god, whatever that means wonders night about basically, everything that you can't grasp immediately is metaphysical one. mo, picked the claim from con, ah, representations of what is wholly, are always an attempt to represent something that ultimately cannot be depicted. what is holy is inaccessible to humans. when we speak of the holy, we mean something that lies beyond our sphere of influence. ah, nevertheless,
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people have searched for the sacred for thousands of years, including in special places, such as mountains or deserts. these were places where you could dream freely, where people had experiences that went beyond their lives. ah. the lutheran theology, peter should studies the idea of the holy and its history from it. even an ancient source says there is talk of holy mountains with holy sciences tomorrow, some of which still exists to dang as an off before taxes to the bible also speaks of such holy mountains that awakened a mysterious longing. i'm this full disease or cubic tar ah, he's the present moment. they begin these are singular encounters with something
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other fossils on something very special to something wholly that can't be put into words. fiscal fights at best. it can be expressed in the form of secret medicine. do they preserve this place and make the holy somewhat tangible i fall? even if it ultimately always stays beyond reach is all it's always receding back into the inexpressible midst of the holy hiding. when i was thoughtless, tried, ah, some 2000 years ago, the counts erected buildings on a mountain in hessen. later christians also recognized it as a holy place and named interest in begg ah, was come on a change from dawn up. listen to something else that points to that is that the 1st small christian chapels or churches were built here as early as the 7th or 8th century, any more valuable, and then continuously reworked logging. so you could say that a sacred place on
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a wholly side keeps reinventing itself alter. it, tries to give this special holiness shapes trying to set the experience in stone and create a space for holiness. and for that aura, which people have experienced here on the top, ah, putting the feeling of the holy into words isn't easy. that is why it is often stirred artists and inspired them to be creative. mm. christian art, the architecture of sacred spaces and especially church music are an integral part of religious practice. oh, cool. music is not tangible. it is fleeting. oh, it lives entirely in the event marker, a characteristic that it has in common with religion. why? oh wow.
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lulu ah oh oh oh ah, for a long time the churches defined what was to be understood as holy with their
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doctrinal formulas and ceremonies. that changed in 1917. when the lutheran theology and rudolph auto published a slim volume entitled the idea of the holy, it was translated into all major languages and created a stir among european theologians. rudolph, otto had found a new way of describing religion. quantity was forced, the basic idea of the book was not to examine religion through its doctrinal statements. that is to say not to talk about dogmas or religious rights and such a use of eton, but to ask what lies behind these things are in boston? what is the mysterious power that religious teachings wholly taxes and sacred buildings and customs gave rise to many years ago. boy don't boys. you bought us
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have 4 point with rudolph auto asked. what is the essence of religion? really? to answer this question, he set out on a trip around the world that ended in the far east. he learned about other religions, such as hinduism and buddhism, and explored how they are lived. the insights he brought back forms the basis of the religious studies collection at the phillips university and mar borg to day. as guns was on the law is what made this work special? was the main question he dealt with. namely, how is this thing which holds every religion together? this immediate religious experience, which he then called the holy, how is this represented? how was it shown that good? he then develop the concept that emotional experience lies at the core of all religions experiencing the holy. he saw this as an anthropological component. every
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human has it, and every humans drives for it. ah, the holy isn't something we can grasp intellectually. at something that seizes us emotionally. it happens to us. we experience it. we have no control over it. ah rudolph auto tries to describe this somewhat irrational element by asking what it triggers in us, in feel of personality struck him that in religion is the holy is primarily experienced as a shuddering. i think it has a strange, almost disconcerting power that makes people feel deeply humble. that's in the coughed hot. so at the same time, it's profoundly fascinating a t physique. it triggers a deep longing in people to get closer to what's wholly to merge with it. in for
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auto, this dual effect on the one hand, attracting you and on the other repelling. you is an essential hor, aspect of the holy and of religion. and general coun momentum. this hiding what the hell you own about. ah, this becomes clear, for instance, in the christian symbol of the crucified jesus, a man tortured to death, who suffered deeply. but he overcame the suffering. his death was followed by resurrection and that gives rise to hope. there is something similar in the hindu goddess collie. i'm your vin here you see cali, a black goddess and one of the most powerful indian divinities. if you look closely, you can see that she's wearing a necklace of skulls around her neck, several hands around her waist. and there is blood on her tongue. this goddess embodies the most terrible aspects of transcendence or the holy cindy. but at the same time, she is benevolent and loving the before and then the state of food as he does have
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of in the hindu tradition. she also represents the female energy principal shock tea party. so she represents overcoming the dreadful things that people experience in life in colorado thought, who has viewed the holy is precisely this emotional experience of religion. i see the positive hope that which is full of light radiant the idea of resurrection in the christian tradition and the experience of death and suffering ah, the pilgrimage church in navigate on the edge of the ruler valley sister goes to unblock it, will have the strongest impression that the sense of the holy is the fact that the
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marine dawn was built here in a vegas as a tent, albeit and concrete. it has a light folded roof and light fighting the divorce. ah, this is dawson middleton off hoping to pick up the if you look up, you almost can't see the roof because it's not illuminated. bob, you can only sense it's full of their gazes drawn into the heavens into the unknowable. it's hold on the open now and so when you're down here on the middle is huge space, you have an almost overwhelming impression that you're standing under heaven of hope. then i looked at them and the sense that god, the invisible is behind it, that, that got back into the oldest bon honest chaplain, father phil de cough belongs to the priestly community of saint martin. he and has
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3 confreres, have been administering the marine, dorman navigates for 3 years. the church was built in 1968 by the german architect, godfrey boone, in what was then the modern style known as brutal ism the term comes from the french word put meaning concrete. the architectural style is symptomatic of the sixty's when people wanted to break away from traditional church architecture and experience a new authenticity reduced to essentials because of its size. the pilgrimage church is known as the marine dome, the cathedral of our lady, but it was never the suit of a bishop. it's especially popular with polish pilgrims and her space for 2000 worshippers. they are drawn here by
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a small picture depicting mary brown smoking. dull is amusing. the marine dome is like an enormous house or a huge allegory for the tiny miraculous image that pilgrims come here to venerate about. i call lice. am i right at the entrance to the cathedral soil? you see a small 7 centimeter high fixture and a beautiful column, which is nothing more than a page from a ink one is glenna bits. and this little picture is my pilgrims come here to the biggest bonacre's a book page showing an image of mary. the story goes that the virgin mary spoke to a franciscan friar from this picture. in 1684 dot doesn't hold on one percent of the script written healings have occurred after people prayed in front of this picture as to the bless her mother who carried the prayer to god a bull we're going to. so you might say the church is a huge mystical grotto for the tiny holy thing that's venerated here to say up from which healing emanates. and holiness and healing are of course closely related to
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skills. thanks was um making the inexpressible, the holy, accessible and experiential. that's what pilgrimage, churches like the marine dome are all about. the catholic church venerate many saints, images of saints and prayer, and of venus to saints have been part a popular piety since the middle ages. the liturgical scholar alexander established in ski explains the relevance of these practices. highly gazande years of scenes are so to speak, the specialty of the catholic church. rubbish. not only do we have many things, but there's a hierarchy among law duffy to him. you can see a most important st behind me was about mary. the mother of gone to you, the water got us. that was on the on maria. i'd steer what it makes merry special is that she was completely open to god forgot dance. and gar,
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often for when the angel april appeared to marry, bringing her to message that she would conceive a child, and not exactly under natural circumstances, what she was open to that incomprehensible event is back. yes, mary was the door through which the holy eager god himself i entered this world into the profane can. and since then this world is no longer just profane, but is itself wholly han son and sabre shun highly sh honesty, but that's what the saints mean to us. catholic schools cut to lincoln. ah oh.
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what religions call god or the god is the radical other than most powerful and remote? at the same time, all religions seek to approach and connect with the sacred in various ways. roman catholicism has always responded strongly to pictorial representation, to the physicality of he can say it's a practical approach to the fact that people long to make contact with the sacred. and this often expresses itself in a relationship to images. to real physical thing. alicia demands yawn. can protestantism, on the other hand, has always been very skeptical of this tendency. and how to emma, he refers to and it was afraid that people could feel that what they had held in their hearts was actually only human. damon and osmond as announcing that these in
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the end are just wall sustain, mom said the sound you hear is just music. oh, that the images you see are just pictures created by people billed audi. munsey. oh, fun mentioned gamma that to avoid this danger. protestantism has always tried to distance itself from physical representation, the phone for this. it says that what is really holy must be invisible. i and cannot be reached by human means. want the one that is empty with mentally mitten missed her account. any one who enters the marine dome and never guess and walks towards the altar is confronted by a huge, bare concrete wall, a kind of projection surface for this invisible god, for the holy. and at the same time, the incomprehensible dickinson told with that of items and get the whole building
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and its vastness supply is a symbolic image of the holy, which is at once attractive and fascinating and somehow shocking that because this and in the christian understanding god is exactly that, and the holy one who both attracts and frightens us on it. he is frightening because he is the unknown but it will become thirst. the all to you at the same to you at the church is the place where the connection with god is established. through christ. here the idea of the holy is focused here stan the cross, which in turn is both fascinating and frightening. it's the place of death and of redemption. ah ah,
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perhaps no word is better suited to express the magic and depth of our existence than the word holy. but the question of what holy is will always remain a mystery. busy forever unknowable this. i think it's foolish for me, i've wholly is what is incomprehensible futile. that's what intrigues me in. what's generally interesting, an art, the artist haines. what he can't express in words. i think that the world is actually supernatural. not the things you see and think and speak, but what lies behind them? think don't grateful, empathetic, ah, the experience of the holiest part of human life. even people, without any religious affiliation can experience you could say it predates our faith and is more fundamental than religion itself. till yawns and niche from him.
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your fun religions didn't fall from the sky. oh, and they aren't based on singular revelation events of a supernatural kind. not true alicia. they come from inside people see come austin in on this mentioned isn't there part of our inner world of it? that's where the holy is located. ought of hiding. it causes people to change on the inside. no, i know we discover a strong need for expression, but swiftness and the religions are precisely that on the forms of expression int he constantly reinventing themselves don't know, and constantly changing to express my mysterious ideas of the holy for after hi, miss fuller, miss taylor with highly ah what is wholly cannot be captured in words. it confounds us. and it touches us
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