Sentences with phrase «only as allegory»

For Christians, sexual difference and union is a type of Christ and the church... Only as allegory can the Song play its central role in healing our sexual imaginations.»

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He also uses imagery and allegory to good effect, such as the reference to playing table tennis on a moving train: The ball may appear to be bouncing back and forth, but in the grand scheme it's really moving only in one direction.

I should have specified at the beginning that only fundamentalist Christians believe the Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God, and that many people interpret the stories as allegories.

The myth declared historical — critical method to be the only true way to read the New Testament, and dismissed all other modes of reading (particularly the despised errors of allegory) as «precritical.»

It is also possible to recognize other ways of reading the New Testament: not only midrash, but also typology and allegory are modes of reading which, given their assumptions and rules of discourse, are every bit as disciplined and «true» as that offered by the literalist renderings of the historical - critical method.

Pilgrim's Progress, cited by Braithwaite, was an influential guide to behaviour only because it was read as an allegory faithfully representing the way of life recommended by the Bible and supported by the claims therein about God and the world.

The film works best as an allegory of what men fear: loss of family, loss of profession, loss of respect, loss of sanity (resembling in this aspect the suburban unease of the director's Arlington Road), going so far as to cast a woman (Laura Linney) as the film's only representative of order.

After all, the only people I know who enjoyed The Village are those who presumed Shyamalan's intention was as political allegory.

You may choose to view Milo as O'Shea's modernized update of the iconic monster or a child brimming with inner evil; the film keeps its ends open, its truths veiled and only makes its sociopolitical allegories plain in its final, haunting images.

Long gone are the origins of comic books which served as allegory to modern social situations, these films are only about violence, hero's repeatedly saving the day and leave the intelligent moviegoer with little substance.

An impenetrable folly of gaudy excess and crass emoting, the film's only achievement beyond the technical prowess of its staging is in highlighting the shortcomings of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tome: as an allegory, it is masterful, but as a romantic narrative, it is a meagre work.

As political allegories go, The Shape of Water isn't notably sophisticated or specific: some might argue that it errs slightly by itself othering the non-human creature in question (named only as Amphibian Man) by denying him any silent perspective on proceedingAs political allegories go, The Shape of Water isn't notably sophisticated or specific: some might argue that it errs slightly by itself othering the non-human creature in question (named only as Amphibian Man) by denying him any silent perspective on proceedingas Amphibian Man) by denying him any silent perspective on proceedings.

The main competition is filled with movies about the ailing world of limited means and unjust distribution of wealth, and after the bizarre and derivative allegory of labor in Vahid Vakilifar's Taboor and Amir Manor's astutely titled Epilogue, which played like Michael Haneke's Amour, only capitalism as a stand - in for death, the main competition now brings us Sylvie Michel - Casey's Our Little Differences.

Unfamiliar with symbolism - laden allegory, and without knowing how allegories function as social critiques, most students manage only a surface - level comprehension of the text, missing the opportunity to explore the larger ideas of human capability and culpability.

As an adult, he says, he rediscovered the story only to find that it was not a fantasy adventure so much as a satirically charged political allegory about the «author's» home country of Florin (I know it's fictional now, okayAs an adult, he says, he rediscovered the story only to find that it was not a fantasy adventure so much as a satirically charged political allegory about the «author's» home country of Florin (I know it's fictional now, okayas a satirically charged political allegory about the «author's» home country of Florin (I know it's fictional now, okay?)

Only when I retell this tale in Rocamadour as a teacher do I realize what an allegory it is for anyone who travels.

The title of the work, as the exhibition itself, can be read as an allegory: When a «face» looks into «water face», referring to the watery - fluids found in another person's eye, one sees not only the other's face, but his own face as is reflected in the other's eye.

i'm only a passenger — just like you (from an Egyptian tomb) As you round the corner of the entryway at Diane Rosenstein where this phrase is visible, the first works on view in Eleanor Antin's Passengers are two massive photographs from her 2004 series Roman Allegories.

Transavanguardia not only reintroduced figurative painting into the predominantly Minimalist and Conceptual scene of the period, but proposed devices like allegory and mythology as valid strategies in contemporary art discourse, much to the chagrin of the art - world establishment at the time.

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