This essay examines the use of language in narrating a sacred universe, focusing specifically on text The Universe Story by Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme. It applies narrative hermeneutics Paul Ricoeur, who argued for role influencing life through its creation world, to text. focuses Ricoeur’s five traits phenomenology sacred. step is reminder that religious has been shaped demythologisation, t...

Byzantine music is a cover term for the liturgical music used in the Orthodox Church within the Byzantine Empire and the Churches regarded as continuing that tradition. This music is monophonic (with drone notes), exclusively vocal, and almost entirely sacred: very little secular music of this kind has been preserved, although we know that court ceremonial music in Byzantium was similar to the ...

Previous work has underscored the robust links between sanctification of marriage and marital outcomes, and recent developments in the literature suggest that compassionate love, which is important for intimate relationships, may act as a mediator of that relationship. Accordingly, the current study used actor-partner interdependence models to examine the relationship between a spiritual cognit...