Sentences with phrase «christian symbolism»

Any cultural inclination to give less credence to symbols of the Islamic faith, however, would potentially be counter balanced by a desire to «take back control» by favouring more traditional Christian symbolism.

More important, Botticelli continued to make classical learning, Christian symbolism, drawing in perspective, figures on a powerful scale, and life drawing central to Renaissance ideals, like Piero della Francesca before him.

In Romania, Christian symbolism is associated with features of pasca type bread.

In Romania, Christian symbolism is associated with features of pasca type bread.

The tide had turned from a Lewisian seeing of celestial beauty in the jungle of filth and imbecility that is Myth to a marketable spotting of Christian symbolism in every pop cultural artifact imaginable.

Confession expunged sins so that the devil was compelled to erase them from his record.41 Alongside of the sacraments were the sacred ceremonies, often immemorial usages reaching back into a remote pagan antiquity, invested now with Christian symbolism, teaching rnen the sacred meaning of the seasonal round.

He wrote of doing «the lord's work,» and Nazi uniforms and propaganda were replete with Christian symbolism.

«The cards have a surprising amount of Christian symbolism in them,» he says.

And so, I shall devote the first part of this chapter to outlining how Christian symbolism may be situated in terms of an aesthetic cosmology and the second part to shedding light on some aspects of Christian faith in terms of the emergent - hierarchical model.

It is the image of a suffering God presented in the symbolism of Christian faith that has led me toward Whitehead's thought as an approach to cosmology which corresponds in most respects with the Christian symbolism.

Lowell's early poetry used Christian symbolism but in a curious form: he expressed his anger because the world was not as Christian as he thought it ought to be.

Allan calls this sequence «a tour - de-force of malignant terror,» and it is shot through with Christian symbolism.

As a boy I loved his Narnia books as adventure stories; the Christian symbolism was lost on me.

On a topic closer to like what you're doing — about twelve years ago, I ran an in - depth website examining the Christian symbolism in «The Lord of the Rings» films.

That was followed by their global hit «Viva La Vida» which is full of Christian symbolism as it references the bells of Jerusalem, missionaries in a foreign field, but also the cryptic line «I know St Peter won't call my name» which has always struck me as challenging.

So again some real work is needed on reinterpretation of the miracles for them to have appropriate Christian symbolism.

Also, the Bible has basic elements of good vs. evil, and for the purpose of a sermon (ie a pastoral message meant to convey some sort of spiritual lesson), having a good modern day example of Christian symbolism is always a fun tool to use to keep a congregation interested.

Hitler's» I'm a Christian» is like atheists looking at «In God we Trust» n swearing it is a secular motto or looking at the Scales of Justice n the Angel of Justice oblivious of their Judaeo - Christian symbolism.

Certainly, in the rich world of Christian symbolism, the cross stands perennially central.

Not exact matches

Yes, he used Christian rhetoric, symbolism, etc..

And if we add Hitler here (since he was not a Christian, despite his rhetoric and symbolism, but a pagan, as well as an equal opportunity murderer who murdered 2 million Christians), we can add another 11 - 13 million to this total.

Early Christians borrowed some of the symbolism of the various «Easter» celebrations they observed around them, and incorporated them into the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.

The definition of worship as «the celebration of life» was coined by Chicago's UU minister Von Ogden Vogt (who also guided the construction of a Gothic UU church freighted with symbolism but devoid of any traditional Christian symbols beyond the cruciform floor plan!).

Now it says «For medieval Christians, the Eucharist (the sacrament of Communion) was not only at the heart of the Mass — but its presence and symbolism also wielded enormous influence over cultural and civic life.»

First, for the arts world, the loss of a transcendent religious vision, a refined and rigorous sense of the sacred, the breaking and discarding of two thousand years of Christian mythos, symbolism, and tradition has left contemporary American art spiritually diminished.

As soon as Christians start to try to avoid and condemn anything and everything that has pagan roots or symbolism, we end up having to just sit at home twiddling our thumbs.

In the early Church the symbolism was applied to the individual as an image of his or her membership in the Church and union with Christ, common to all Christians.

That's exactly what's at the heart of this — that the use of public funds (e.g., tax dollars) should NOT be used to promote (e.g., force down the throat of others) any particular religion or religious belief or practice — that money shouldn't be taken by non-Christians by force (via taxation) and then given to Christians to put up displays of Christian religious symbolism.

Given the mystery of the gospel proclaimed in the symbolism of church and family, can Christians afford to dilute its strength in their desire to accommodate the latest cultural fad?

While the deep symbolism of baptism is still present in the ritual, it is not naturally understood or comprehended by the average Christian, let alone the person who knows little about Jesus and Scripture.

Yet since most people (including Christians) do not understand the symbolism, the solution is not to just keep baptizing people since «That is what we've always done.»

I bet all of the literary - symbolism junkies thought it wasn't ironic that, while JC Penny was mentioned, it wasn't for it's Christian - ness.

Even the language that the Christian once employed in speaking of Christ has become archaic and empty, and we could search in vain for a traditional Christian language and symbolism in contemporary art and thinking.

For right now, the «standard» religious symbolism of Christian images, the ones that believers pray before and use within their worship, really don't have any place decorating public places in America because their presence there only serves to mark them as places of worship too.

What can the Christian belief in «special revelation» possibly mean when it is articulated in terms of the penumbra of mystery that constitutes the widest context of our existence and which is testified to universally in human religious experience and symbolism?

For the moment, while they impressed him, it was all discounted against Rome's great status, the Indulgences to be gained by visiting the basilicas, the sheer fact of being at the heart of Christendom, and the usual Christian tourist reaction of the time — he admired the Pantheon, its size and its symbolism, once the place of the classical gods, now a Christian church.

But because modern efforts at Christian unity are often heavy on symbolism rather than substance (the harder thing to achieve), a meeting between the Patriarch of Moscow and the Pope of Rome was held out as a tantalizing prize for Catholic ecumenists, one that could be used to extract concessions at some necessary moment.

I do not like to use the phrase «God is dead» for the reason already suggested by Dr. Altizer: in some sense this symbolism is specifically Christian.

If Havel is right that we are in a crisis of responsibility and identity, then Christians can and should turn to the rich creation symbolism within their own tradition, suffused as it is with imagery of water, air, sky, and earth.

This seems strange for a party that has so many religious members and voters, including Christian fundamentalists and evangelists, who might take such symbolism seriously.

This assembly explores the Christian value of humility using Palm Sunday and the symbolism of Jesus» arrival in Jerusalem on a donkey.

It draws on a range of activities card sort / word association / video clip to help students consider the importance of Easter as a Christian festival, the symbolism involved and the intrinsic link to Spring.

Drury discusses the religious symbolism in the composition, coloration, and lighting as well as the subjects of some of the greatest Christian paintings of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries.

Its soaring, mosaic - tiled towers bring a modern feel to a traditionally Christian iconography, yet maintain significant religious symbolism; inside, the light from its stained - glass windows flood the stonework with bright colours, representing, in Gaudí's eyes, the beauty of life and faith.

In these paintings, Martin reverts to Christian mysticism and anthroposophist symbolism, as well as to the «spiritual landscapes» of North American Romanticism, quite unknown in Europe.

This is true of his early crosses from 1949 installed in the Chapel Gallery, which unite Christian and pagan symbolism by conflating Christ's crown of thorns with the rays of a sunburst, and a defining feature of the rest of his oeuvre.

Note: Meyer Schapiro's «Muscipula Diaboli, The Symbolism of the Mérode Altarpiece,» is republished in his Late Antique, Early Christian and Mediaeval Art: Selected Papers (New York, 1979).