Exactly right, Arnold, on the piacular health care proposals. From Wordnik.com. [Only the Libertarian Fringe Offers Real Health Care Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
I felt the glow of success, raising an academic paper from a piacular rite to -- dare I say it -- art. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference
The piacular sacrifice took place several days later, by which time Caesar had readied himself for his journey to take up duty under Marcus Minucius Thermus, governor of Asia Province. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Still there is reason to believe that the piacular idea of sacrifice was never wholly lost, but that the Hindus, in common with all other races, found occasion -- especially when great calamities befell them -- to appease the gods with the blood of sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
“Conspectus ab utrâque acie aliquanto augustior humano visu, sicut cœlo missus piaculum omnis deorum iræ, qui pestam ab suis aversam in hostes ferret;” — “He was looked on by both armies as one more august than a man, as one sent from heaven, to be a piacular sacrifice, to appease the anger of the gods, and to transfer destruction from their own army to the enemies,” Liv. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity] Reference
It is more meritorious of reward than it is piacular of guilt. From Wordnik.com. [Reformation Theology] Reference
This suffering was the culmination of his piacular sorrow, but not the whole of it. From Wordnik.com. [Reformation Theology] Reference
These constitute the sum total of the argu - ments, which have been urged against the vica - rious nature of the legal piacular atonements. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses and dissertations on the scriptural doctrines of atonement & sacrifice : and on the principal arguments advance, and the mode of reasoning employed, by the opponents of those doctrines as held by the established Church ; with an appendix, containing some strictures on Mr. Belsham's account of the Unitarian scheme, in his review of Mr. Wilberforce's treatise] Reference
If live she must, through the five years of piacular sacrifice, why vitiate its efficacy by rebellious repining, that seemed an affront to the divine arbiter of human destinies?. From Wordnik.com. [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference
The two forms of Christ's obedience cannot therefore be so entirely separated from each other as is implied in this theory which confines the piacular agency of the mediator to his passive obedience. From Wordnik.com. [Reformation Theology] Reference
The practical Roman mind seems to have invented a kind of sacrificial insurance, by which a piacular sacrifice might be offered beforehand to atone for any omission in the ritual which was to follow. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
At a later time, when cereals were cultivated, they formed an important part of sacrificial offerings, and were held -- as, for example, among the Greeks and the Hebrews -- to have piacular efficacy. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
Since atonement consists in suffering and since obedience of the divine law is not suffering but happiness, they contend that Christ's active obedience cannot contribute anything that is strictly piacular or atoning. From Wordnik.com. [Reformation Theology] Reference
We may suppose that eucharistic, penitential, and even deprecatory sacrifices may have originated in the light of nature and reason, but we are unable to account for the practice of piacular sacrifices for substitutional atonement, on the same principle. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
Nov/it is to be remarked, that this is the only pas - sage in the entire Scripture, in which the mean - ing of the ceremony, of laying hands on the head of the victim, is directly explained: and from this, one would naturally think, there could be no difficulty in understanding its true import in all other cases of piacular sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses and dissertations on the scriptural doctrines of atonement & sacrifice : and on the principal arguments advance, and the mode of reasoning employed, by the opponents of those doctrines as held by the established Church ; with an appendix, containing some strictures on Mr. Belsham's account of the Unitarian scheme, in his review of Mr. Wilberforce's treatise] Reference
The objections to this mode of distinguishing are that (a) satisfaction is better fitted to denote Christ's piacular work than his whole work of redemption; in theological literature, it is more commonly the synonym of atonement; (b) by this distinction, atonement may be made to rest upon the passive obedience alone to the exclusion of the active. From Wordnik.com. [Reformation Theology] Reference
What! Is nonconformity no less piacular?. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
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