Sentences with phrase «allegorical interpretation of»

For the better part of nineteen centuries, the historic churches, wittingly or unwittingly, have contributed greatly to the global spread of anti-Semitism by their excessively allegorical interpretation of most if not all favorable scriptural references to the Jews.

Also Palestinian Judaism did not avail itself of an allegorical interpretation of the mass of incomprehensible and impracticable commands in order to find in them an intelligible moral meaning This method was used only in Hellenistic Judaism under the influence of Greek thinking, as it was later in the Christian church, when it needed to come to terms with the Old Testament laws.

We need only mention briefly the allegorical interpretation of the New Testament which has dogged the Church throughout its history.

When an allegorical interpretation of the Song first developed is debated.

But why should Muslims care if Catholics wanted them to be a bit more «Sufi,» keener on allegorical interpretation of the Koran and the Hadith, and cooler on taking words like «jihad» literally?

This is a truly scary identification insofar as it involves a resurgence of extreme antinomian supersessionism, since the main thrust of the Epistle of Barnabas is a radical allegorical interpretation of the Law as part of a polemic against Jews.

It can not come from an obscurantist who behaves as though nothing had happened and is content to repeat the shibboleths of a short - circuited dogmatism, or to take over the exegesis of Luther naïvely and uncritically, to say nothing of the allegorical interpretations of the Rabbis.

Hardison notes that popular devotional manuals contained allegorical interpretations of ceremonial right up to the mid 1950s (p. 39).

His photographs address themes in common with the painter, including moody maritime nocturnes and allegorical interpretations of nature.

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In dealing with the problem, they made free use of an allegorical method of interpretation, which was a legacy from ancient Greek scholarship.

It required them to move from literal interpretations of the texts to allegorical interpretations in which the religious insight of the texts was uncovered.

As one who continues to delight in the poems, I cheer the ingenuity and inspiration of the allegorical interpretation which preserved the Song of Solomon.

First, disputes with Protestants, who accepted Scriptural authority alone and rejected allegorical interpretations, meant that the literal sense of the Bible was fundamental and almost exclusive.

The Song of Songs eulogizes a love affair between two unmarried persons, though even some scholars have conspired to cover up the fact with heavy layers of allegorical interpretation.

Werner examines each of these passages in detail and concludes that in none of them is the allegorical method of interpretation necessary, while in most it is positively excluded.

As in most examples of allegorical or symbolical interpretation, the interpreter's views are first subtly read into the text and then adroitly extracted by a pretended exegesis.

Moreover, the allegorical or «symbolical» interpretation of the Gospel, which Volkmar, Holsten, and Schulze had pressed to its utmost limits, still survived — at least in the interpretation of certain crucial passages.

Thanks to the admirable work of de Lubac on the «four meanings» of Scripture — historical, allegorical, moral, anagogical — the breadth of this mutual interpretation of Scripture and existence is known.

This allegorical interpretation, however, is not necessary to the understanding of the book and has been almost universally given up by scholars.

Instead, they went through theological contortions to stress and promote their preferred concepts of original sin and messianic redemption, and to fit literal interpretations of scriptures that were in large part allegorical.

Then it occurred to me that this interpretation, despite the rejection of allegorizing by this and all other competent New Testament scholars, was really an allegorical interpretation.

Indeed, when St. Paul does happen to mention a relevant text from the Hebrew Scriptures — «You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain» (Deut 25:4)-- he does so simply to apply it by a kind of allegorical interpretation to the economic support of those who preach the gospel.

This is one of the few parables that are almost, if not quite, allegorical, and so is especially liable to erroneous and fanciful interpretations.

From Ambrose in the fourth century A.D. to Thomas Hayne and John Milton in the seventeenth century, there have been repeated attempts to maintain a proper «biblicity» for Samson by means of allegorical interpretation.

Given the allegorical method of Darren Aronofsky's storytelling the film is open to much interpretation and criticism.

In addition, students learn to make clear and accurate interpretations regarding the events of the chapters 5 and 6, (as Napoleon's dictatorship begins to emerge) and make appropriate links to individual characters and their allegorical relationship to context.

Even in his later works that depict the atrocities of war, allegorical still lifes, vivid interpretations of art - historical masterpieces, and his sensual canvases created during his twilight years, he continued to apply a reduction of colour.

Cindy Sherman's allegorical pictures reflect our own conception of the world and open up for new interpretations of familiar phenomena.

PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...