Sentences with phrase «if metaphors for»

If my metaphor for ministry is apt, it should not only inform the life of the minister in full swing, but it should encompass the whole span of ministry.

Not exact matches

If a coin toss is a metaphor for meeting different customers, outcomes of past coin tosses have no bearing on the outcome of the current toss.

If cryptocurrencies are a metaphor for a new era, that would be troubling,» said Greg Valliere, Horizon's chief global strategist.

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If there is anyone that can leverage a rock and roll metaphor for content marketing, it's Jason Miller @JasonMillerCA, Senior Manager, Content Marketing at LinkedIn (LinkedIn is a TopRank client).

Mike has crushed it and I'm not sure if it was Joel or I who got him started, but I'm sure he'd attest to the power of that metaphor for getting you to take bold moves.

As Levenson and Madigan argue, «If resurrection were thought ludicrous, or impossible, even for God, then it would be a singularly inappropriate metaphor for the national renewal and restoration that Ezekiel predicts.»

If «Genesis is «true» as a long poetic metaphor» then the actual event of eating of some fruit that was forbidden did not happen and thus there was no inherrited sin and thus no need for a ransom sacrafice from some savior which means the entire bible falls flat on its face.

If being a writer meant having that cabin in the woods — which is the mythic metaphor for uninterrupted, solitary, sustained, romantic ideals of writing, well, I would never be a writer.

(I apologize to those that dislike metaphors, but I almost can't communicate if I don't get to use them, and as insufficient as they at times are, they are very close to the language of what I believe, because you can't really explain or define someone into believing... you can only live out your beliefs in a way that you share with others, and when given the opportunity shine a light, or point a direction, or walk along with someone for a bit).

If covenant is only a metaphor for relationship, then poor behavior may be thought to sabotage the relationship.

For a metaphor to be acceptable, it need not, can not, apply in all ways; if it did, it would be a description.

If the characteristic mark of hermeneutical theology is its interpretive stance, especially in regard to texts — both the classic text of the Judeo - Christian tradition (the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament) and the exemplary theologies that build on the classic text — then heuristic theology is also interpretive, for it claims that its successful unconventional metaphors are not only in continuity with the paradigmatic events and their significance expressed in this classic text but are also appropriate expressions of these matters for the present time.

Increasingly, however, the idea of metaphor as unsubstitutable is winning acceptance; what a metaphor expresses can not be said directly or apart from it, for if it could, one would have said it directly.

The univocal and equivocal imaginations deny metaphor, deny that any new insight can come through the ordinary — the one flattens it to sameness, the other escapes from it — but what Lynch calls the analogical imagination delves into the mundane, for it is precisely in and through the complexities of historical, limited existence that insight comes, if it comes at all.

Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92 f.)

The image of the raped woman forms an exaggerated metaphor for the oppression that every woman knows from her own experience, at least emotionally if not physically.

If the metaphor «the world is my body» prevents respect for creatures on their own terms, for their own sakes, then again it is dangerous.

If the metaphor that «the world is my body» suggests that we have, or ought to have, the world as a medium for personal self - expression in the same way that we have our bodies as such media, then the metaphor itself is again misleading.

For in a metaphysical system in which process is creative of the relational depths of our lives, the nature of religious experience, if it is metaphysically grounded, will illustrate the same root metaphor found in the system.

What if the BIG TICKET miracles (cures, resurrections) are just metaphors for the important stuff we keep missing?

If I can convince Joe of just one thing, it would be this: Drunkenness is a helpful metaphor for the kingdom of heaven; so helpful, in fact, that it answers the question of whether Martha will be disabled there.

His reflections on these issues culminate in chapter 11, where the theme of Israel's apistia arises once again in Paul's metaphor about the olive branches broken off the tree: «They were broken off because of their apistia, but you [gentiles] stand only through pistas... But even these, if they do not persist in apistia, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.»

There are so many metaphors in the Bible for loss of salvation, but if you refuse to see it, God won't force you to either.

For if we cling to the exodus as the exclusive metaphor for our engagement, and to liberation as its dominant theme, we are guilty of neglecting «the whole counsel of God.&raqFor if we cling to the exodus as the exclusive metaphor for our engagement, and to liberation as its dominant theme, we are guilty of neglecting «the whole counsel of God.&raqfor our engagement, and to liberation as its dominant theme, we are guilty of neglecting «the whole counsel of God.»

As if Oprah's favorite things were somehow in the neighborhood of the crucifixion and resurrection, the AP reports that the pastor says «the prizes are a metaphor for the Easter message of the ultimate giveaway.»

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

We need to comprehend the first link if we are to understand something of the process by which sacrifice was displaced from an actual bloody ritual practice to a metaphor for moral action, such that we can now say «he was very self - sacrificial» and not mean «he offered his body to Aztec priests.»

If art means inspirational stories and pretty metaphors, there is so much in the Bible that is neither inspirational nor pretty that biblical preaching, at least, will probably not be mistaken for art.

I hoped I wasn't a big old metaphor for putting ministry first, but I was comforted by the knowledge that Joe would eat his body weight in sausage if I let him, and really, it's just what they like, and honestly, who cares?

The only way it can even possibly hold up under its own weight is if you throw the concept of original sin out entirely, spin it as something like «this is a metaphor for humans achieving sentience,» and in the process lose the entire purpose and mission of Jesus.

The latter metaphor comes alive for us when we recognize that the Palestinian sycamine tree was notably deep rooted; the Mishnah says: «A tree may not be grown within twenty - five cubits of a cistern, or within fifty cubits if it is... a sycamore (shikmah) tree» (B. B. 2.11).

If you reduce the metaphors too much, you will end with an idol.So more metaphors gives more access to God, and one can work one metaphor for a while, but you can't treat that is though that's the last word — you've got to move, and have another, and another.

If the church is still our defining community, as I think for Christians it must be, then it is so in part because it breaks the metaphor of home.

If an erroneous, and indeed pernicious, metaphor has dominated American jurisprudence and public discourse for years, then correcting that error would yield real - world changes in law, politics and society.

It won't be because Cleveland sports are a metaphor for the city's general malaise, even if that perception is more than a little tired and outdated.

If for no other reason than accessable metaphors, we are lucky to be Suns» fans.

Maybe battle isn't such a bad metaphor for him, if I can place it in the appropriate context.

I mean, yeah, a dead baby would be like 1000x more offensive and emotionally difficult for viewers, but the metaphor holds better, and if you want to guilt us dirty bottle feeders into making our boobs work or forgoing our mental health meds or suffering through rape flashbacks or never - ending mastitis or simply not enjoying how we feed our babies, then a picture of a dead baby will be much more effective.

It was as if Dr. K was making that metaphor for the very first time, actually giving meaning back to what has been a cliché for so long.

Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said: «If ever there was a metaphor for battling through adversity, that was it.»

If I were doing PR for the council, I'd suggest We're Not Just A Political Metaphor as our slogan), its tendrils do, after a while, wrap their way about your heart.

To clarify, Buck used the metaphor of a speeding ticket, noting that a person can not be punished for speeding yesterday if a traffic sign was only placed on the street today.

At the end of that book he famously used God as a metaphor for the laws of nature: «If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of reason — for then we should know the mind of God.»

A good metaphor for understanding how fascia plays a role in relaxation is to think of a knitted sweater: if you pull on one string of yarn the entire sweater can unravel.

If you read the few translated tantric texts, for example The Serpent Power by Sir John Woodroffe, they are dense, obscure, and veiled in metaphor.

If Owens had found a perfect metaphor for his frustration, he'd also isolated the challenge he himself had to master: doing it all again in a way that mattered.

Boy, if that isn't a metaphor for life, I don't know what is.

For example, if I can use the «Baseball Metaphor» in a different way: watching baseball is long and boring and the excitement spreads over 9 innings, but if you catch the highlights on ESPN then you get to see all the action jammed into a two - minute span.

Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot (sorry for all the feet metaphors today).