Sentences with phrase «as symbolic ways»

Future Ed School students, whether their programmatic experience is focused squarely or less directly on early education, will now be enrolled in a higher education institution that, in very concrete as well as symbolic ways, is organizing around the notion that the years before formal schooling are crucial.

If the «will of God» is understood as a symbolic way of saying «the way things are» (the nature of reality in an orderly, cause - and - effect universe), the profound significance of this step becomes clear.

Christians believe that this ultimate sacrifice redeemed us all from sin in the same way that lambs and other animals were once sacrificed as a symbolic way of cleansing people from sin.

(The idea of the virgin birth of Jesus can be understood as a symbolic way of expressing the fact that deep unity is possible between God and a human being (Mary).

The idea of original sin can be understood as a symbolic way of expressing a truth that every counselor observes repeatedly — namely the way in which neurosis (or health) is passed through the generations.

Not exact matches

Because this is, as you alluded to in your opening piece here, symbolic, in a lot of ways.

As a result, the literal and tangible sacrificial apparatus of the Jews became to the Christians symbolic of another kind of religious system altogether, whose temple is heavenly, not earthly, whose high priest once for all has entered the holy place of divine communion, where believing souls may follow him, (Hebrews 10:19) whose sacrifice is voluntary self - giving, and whose consequence is an open way for all to «draw nigh unto God.»

I have suggested that the language of religion may be understood as representing in a mythic and symbolic way at least a portion of the qualitative data given to us in primary perception.

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.

But there are two fundamentally different ways of approaching such an explication, and they are correlative with the two primary ways of understanding the language in which the confessional statement is made: the univocal, which takes the language as rigidly discursive, and the imagistic, which sees it as highly analogical or symbolic.

The anthropologist Claude Lévi Strauss argued that symbolic structures within human societies, including their kinship systems and their mythologies, could be analyzed in the same way, as systems of differences structured according to binary oppositions (e.g., life / death; male / female; hunting / farming; outside / inside).

For example, talk of coming down from heaven may have been appropriate in a world that conceived the divine habitations as almost literally «above»; it will also be appropriate as a useful metaphorical way of describing the presence among us of that which (again in a symbolic sense) is higher than human experience as such.

The gospels treat it as in some way symbolic of more than appears on the surface.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

Nor does the fact that these analyses, as he develops them, are not adequately distinguished from formulations that he takes to be analogical, but that I can accept only as symbolic, in any way interfere with my appreciating both kinds of formulations as having their proper places in any adequate philosophy.

Each symbolic language is a kind of super-language which has to be learned and understood by those who embrace that religion as their way of life.

This can not be done wilfully, of course, but emerges spontaneously from a particular way of appreciating the world: as an objective and beautiful thing, a symbolic reality whose fabric reveals, in a great variety of ways, the forms or archetypes of the world's order (pp. 13,125).

To see the universe as a whole in this way with the same God working in the universe at large, in the life of Jesus and in our lives was put in highly symbolic language by Paul in his letter to the Colossians about the Cosmic Christ.

It is difficult to see how Whitehead's own understanding of God is in any positive way in continuity with any metaphysical tradition, and as to its symbolic meaning, Christian theologians, other than the Whiteheadian faithful, have either been unable to understand it or have judged it to be atheistic.

Ok, on to Christian Baptism: Baptism is the public confession of one's faith, and is a symbolic gesture of putting to death your old sinful way of life (as in, living for yourself), and be raised a new creation in Christ (and now your focus is on His Will, not your own).

When one shares one's body, when one shares another's, as part of the give - and - take, as symbolic of the frustrations and appreciations that both face together in all areas of life, then sexual experience becomes a way of saying what we all need to say and to hear: «I care!»

To see the universe as a whole in this way, with the same God working in the universe at large, and in the life of Jesus, and in the lives of all of us, was put in highly symbolic language by the apostle Paul in his letter about the «Cosmic Christ» in Colossians 1.

God's power to heal bodies shatters our prejudice that healing prayer is only for the more emotional, less intelligent folks; that the Bible stories of healing are merely «symbolic» and «not really true» and that the way the world is (comfortable as it is for us) is God's will.

The essence of the consecrated bread and wine is Christ, not just symbolic of Him — after all, if it were just symbolic, why would Christ pick eating bread as the way to remember Him?

Protestantism, which can be characterized as a movement of the word, led the way in the shift from symbolic communication of the medieval era to the verbal communication of the modern era.

Because symbolic reference is often not recognized as an interpretative synthesis but mistakenly viewed as a pure perception, a society can fail to recognize the need for critical evaluation of the ways it understands experience.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

To buy unnecessary and excessively luxurious goods, and to do it in a public way, buttresses one's reputation as a man or woman of leisure and erects a symbolic barrier against the reeking working classes.

Jewellery has been an important part of humankind forever (the ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians were buried with their jewellery), as has identifying with nature as symbolic of something meaningful to us in sometimes universal and sometimes unique, personal ways.

Wedding anniversaries are considered just as symbolic as the wedding itself, with a tradition of gift - giving that dates all the way back to the Middle Ages.

I do want to encourage all mom's to take heart this Mother's Day: However you hold your baby, in your arms or in your heart...... Remember these things: You are MOM You are strong Love never dies You are brave for all you've endured Sunshine comes after the storm The rawness of grief will not last forever Mother's Day is a chance to remember Your baby will never be forgotten If you are looking for a way to celebrate Mother's Day as a bereaved Mom — or for a bereaved Mom you know — here are a few ideas: Plant a memory garden Meditate in nature Create a symbolic painting Start a new journal Write your...

The way the question is currently written, one could either interpret it as any case where a party first got a small number of seats in one election and was then able to increase their share significantly in the next (by whatever means), or it could be interpreted as just covering the technique of using symbolic gifts to provoke their opponents.

For those who understand it, it is symbolic of science's triumph over mythology as a way to understand the heavens.

Wedding anniversaries are considered just as symbolic as the wedding itself, with a tradition of gift - giving that dates all the way back to the Middle Ages.

Right off the bat do Glazer's deconstructionist intentions become clear: As Winstone bakes in the sun with his healthy gut hanging over his Speedoed crotch, the symbolic boulder rolling down the hill toward him signifies we're a long way from the hard - bodied and likable Stathams and Caines that have populated the genre.

The beginning of the Oscars telecast, Jimmy Kimmel's introductory bit about the old Hollywood giving way to the new, featured a symbolic transformation: the Hollywood of the past — black and white, but so deeply monochromatic — transitioning, just as the 90th Academy Awards ceremony began, to a depiction in full and vibrant color.

No one will accuse 99 Homes of tackling the housing crisis with a subtle hand, as its characters are more symbolic than fully - forged; however, the way it drafts Nash's deal with the devil makes his choices far more understandable.

It was also symbolic; the soldiers Proudfoot attempted to heal were also supposed to write letters to those who'd died during war as a way to bring their emotions about what they'd experienced to the fore, so they could begin dealing with them.

Humane Gifts is a symbolic donation program that allows you to give meaningful gifts to your friends and family — or simply as your way of helping animals for a special occasion.

I also loved the symbolic way that just as I began my quest to «do everything», I was searching for a relic, and the map marker showed it to be atop a mountain.

Cloud is essentially symbolic of Squaresoft's «betrayal» in the late»90s, as they ditched the cartridges of Nintendo and made their way to the optical media of the PlayStation to make Final Fantasy VII.

He employs the mythological trickster trope ---- existent in nearly every culture's folklore ---- to not only examine how artists disrupt the status quo and change the way in which we think, but as a signifier of how people of color navigate both real and symbolic social boundaries inherent to their blackness.

Later works on view illustrate ways Still repurposed his Yaddo images, as his career progressed, into grotesque social commentary and symbolic forms alluding to sexual drive and mythical dualisms.

The architecture takes on a symbolic value thanks to the writing, and it is the signs that create the field of correspondences... In Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi / Brown / Izenour proclaimed the sign as being the organizing element of movements in space, and they succeeded in demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise direction.

It is billed as «more than 60 abstract, symbolic, and conceptual portraits across a wide range of media — reexamining over a century of portraiture and inspiring new ways to see ourselves and others.»

Richter redefined the terms of contemporary painting as he looked to photography for a way to release painting from the political and symbolic burdens of Socialist Realism and Abstract Expressionism.

De Kooning was especially supportive, so much so that he eventually gave way, albeit grudgingly, to the younger man's request for a drawing which he could erase: an act that has been interpreted with some justice as «symbolic patricide.»

The curtains question themselves, as their symbolic meaning - that which simultaneously hides and shows - is a reflection of current ways of seeing.

Concentrating on an endurance - based performance practice, he uses his body as the literal and symbolic site for examining the many ways in which physical and ideological bodies may transcend their afflictions.

The idea for the project originated from reflecting on Erwin Panofsky's book Perspective as Symbolic Form (1927), which shows how every cultural age develops its own way of representing space.