Sentences with phrase «as symbolic expression»

Coard has said that he uses «bearded black men as a symbolic expression for possible change in the African American community» and that his work is «a form of testimonial where black men can be seen in a more positive and righteous light».

Acts of solidarity, as illustrated here, can then be seen through two lenses: as a symbolic expression of approval and sympathy or as a grounded effort to enact change.

Rather these traditional ethical values must be understood as the symbolic expression of what takes place when people stand in true dialogical relation to each other.

However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

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«Anne Frank has great symbolic power, and this has led to a multitude of manifestations, such as the naming of streets, schools and parks, but also Halloween costumes and expressions of antisemitism in the world of football.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

40 But once again, omnipotence is another symbolic term, though it is retained as an expression of our ultimate courage to have faith in «a victory over the threat of nonbeing.»

This version of symbolic functioning allows a comparison between the interpretation of a sense presentation such as the sight of lightning and linguistic expression such as the word «tree».

This means that a Prolog program interpreted at its most abstract level as a logical or mathematical structure is a symbolic expression for an eternal object.

In the end this symbolic expression can have just so much meaning for us as we can give it through specifying that in our experience which bears it out.

We saw earlier that symbolic expressions may be regarded as a primary means by which the members of a religious communion are united.

What symbolic act would be meaningful to you personally as an expression of your faith?

The cross is commemorated not in separation from the rest of Christ's life and work but as the final symbolic expression of a total self - giving to God, in which through prayer and thanksgiving Christians are enabled to share.

«6 Symbolic expression takes objects, persons, experiences and events that are familiar and employs them as indicators of the less familiar.

But it is precisely because this feeling remains for the most part buried beneath the level of our immediate awareness that we need symbolic expression to bring this value into our conscious awareness so as to bolster and vivify our capacity to trust.

And if we are moved by the assumption that what is clear and distinct is also the most concretely real, we will be inclined to suspect the whole realm of symbolic discourse as illusory, as moving us away from rather than toward the real world, precisely because symbolic expression is so frustratingly nebulous.

Thus we can not treat artistic expression as the choice of an external symbolic form to reflect feelings which are simply given.

In particular his theory of symbolic reference undermines our tendency to think of creative expression as a simple», direct display of feeling.

It is these narrative traditions that provide the material for the symbolic and mythic expressions through which we as individuals come face to face with mystery.

It can also be used at the beginning and end of our meditation practice as an expression of gratitude, or a symbolic joining of universal opposites, such as sun and moon or male and female.

A symbolic color selection; a color snapshot of what we see taking place in our global culture that serves as an expression of a mood and an attitude.

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His longstanding commitment to bricolage, an art of making things out of what is ready to hand, is one expression of a studio ethos centered on labor, both as guiding principle and as symbolic currency.

The annual Color of the Year selection is «a symbolic color selection; a color snapshot of what we see taking place in our global culture that serves as an expression of a mood and an attitude,» says Pantone.

Although the setting in Kahlo's painting is fictional, it serves as a symbolic space for self - staged expression.

His sculptures and installations, constructed out of industrial materials such as Plexiglas, concrete, and steel and arranged in precise geometric shapes, were intended to emphasize the purity of the objects themselves rather than any symbolic meaning they might have — «the simple expression of complex thought,» said Judd.

More importantly, the CPP is of immense symbolic value on the international stage, as the tangible expression of Obama's promises at the Paris climate talks.