blood-sacrifice

The miracle that ties Chileans to the deep currents of their river is not in blood-sacrifice but rather the promise of a nation transcendent in new life.

Michael Vlahos: Chilean Transcendence Michael Vlahos 2010

It was an unimaginable blood-sacrifice -- a collective ritual that demanded the most horrifying sacrifices for the nation to transcend.

Michael Vlahos: Chilean Transcendence Michael Vlahos 2010

Everest of worry, the blood-sacrifice heart of drama.

Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

Everest of worry, the blood-sacrifice heart of drama.

Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

While deploring the fetishistic physicalism of some eucharistic theologies, I also deplore the haimophobia that would wipe away all the sacral overtones of blood-sacrifice from the death of Christ and his martyrs and from the Eucharist.

Archive 2008-02-01 enowning 2008

While deploring the fetishistic physicalism of some eucharistic theologies, I also deplore the haimophobia that would wipe away all the sacral overtones of blood-sacrifice from the death of Christ and his martyrs and from the Eucharist.

enowning enowning 2008

Possibly because it seems clear to me that subsequent Jewish and Christian theology has moved beyond literal blood-sacrifice.

What's Wrong With Penal Substitution? James F. McGrath 2007

Instead of dealing with it peacefully through the United Nations, as she could have done, Thatcher decided to live out her pretensions of being a latter-day Boadicea, offering the blood-sacrifice of British youth in yet another opportunist war ( 'yet another' because it was a repeat of how the Falklands were originally seized).

Pro Patria Mori? 2007

It was the renewal of the old, terrible bond of the blood-unison of man, which made blood-sacrifice so potent a factor of life.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

A sort of blood-sacrifice to his lamented ancestors, or to planetary gods?

The Complete Federation Of The Hub Schmitz, James H. 2000