Sentences with phrase «as symbols of death»

Her work references the 19th - century tradition of hairwork, in which family members and artisans would fashion the hair of the deceased into intricate jewelry and other objects as symbols of death and rebirth.

White is «the vestment of pure joy and immaculate purity,» while black represents the «greatest and most profound mourning [as all symbol of death.»

I don't see the tree as a symbol of death - I see it as a symbol of growth and strength.

Not exact matches

The Cross was an instrument of death but I think as a symbol it represents wholeness with it's different dimensions in which the celts were able to expand on its significane.

Such a contemporary appropriation of the symbol of the Kingdom of God can also make possible our realization of the gospel, or the «good news,» of the death of God: for the death of God does not propel man into an empty darkness, it liberates him from every alien and opposing other, and makes possible his transition into what Blake hailed as «The Great Humanity Divine,» or the final coming together of God and man.

The Christian faith is the only world religion that takes as its logo an emphatic symbol of death.

In my understanding the Trinity is a symbol which affirms the Christian experience that God is known as our Creator and Sustainer, that God is also known in the life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus and that in both the fellowship of believers and in personal devotion God is present as the Holy Spirit.

And certainly the resurrection remains as an important symbol of God's love and of the triumph of love over death.

Why would religion focus on the death and not the rebirth as the symbol of their faith?

Two years ago I wore black for the entire Lenten season as a symbol of my grief over the death of our Lord, and I also wore black in solidarity for the suffering that is experienced in this world by so many people.

The death of Jesus is portrayed in Christian faith and hope as an act of life, as an affirmation of life in the face of death, and the cross of Jesus are symbols not of death, but of an unquenchable and invincible life that this world can neither give nor take away from us.

Taking both symbols as representative and interpretative symbols of the life and death of Jesus, expressing the meaning of that life and death and therefore the meaning of Jesus, they both speak of Jesus as living and dying for others, as giving self, of being broken and being poured out, as being servant.

Here I think we can find renewed meaning in the death and resurrection of Jesus as a profound symbol of hope.

Furthermore, since the death and resurrection of Jesus was central to Christian belief and practice, and since teaching was often done with the help of symbols, it probably became customary as a part of nearly every meal where Christians were gathered, to remind people that the bread they were eating represented the body of Jesus which was broken for them, and the wine they were drinking represented His blood.

As St. Francis stands with the symbols of death and self - sacrifice in his hands, so stands every life of faith.

Kateri's long journey has undergone three stages: first, her courageous conversion; second, her death and return to Christ; and, finally, her broad acceptance as a universal symbol of sanctity and love.

Chaos presents us with a religious terror at the sheer contingency of existence as harmony, a terror that clutches at symbols like the polarity of life and death, the creative dance of Shiva the Destroyer, the Pit.

Come now, you know why: Because of a brief period in history when a symbol that has been used around the world for thousands of years as a sign of good will was used to represent an evil socialistic nation whose leader ordered the death of millions.

The snake is a symbol of both death and transformation as well as healing.

The Gestalt is recognizable even when the symbols are radically transformed through metaphorical power (as in G. M. Hopkins» metaphor of the death of a windhover to evoke Jesus» crucifixion).

But they remind us of the fact that the death of Christ was not only the vivid and poignant focus of the church's memory of Jesus (as death is always likely to be in our memory of another), but also that it became almost at once the symbol of what was realized to be the crucial meaning of the event.

Whether they fed on him by faith in their hearts with thanksgiving by eating the bread and drinking the wine with «him at meal, or whether they gratefully permitted him to wash and dry their feet before the meal in anticipation of being cleansed by his blood on the cross, the meaning of both symbols was the same: We are saved from sin and transformed into new creatures in Christ Jesus only as we freely and gladly receive from him the benefits of his passion and death on the cross for our redemption.

But as smart as it may seem for painting Barkawi as seeking revenge solely for the death of his daughter, the film mostly succeeds at advancing Mike's improbable yet largely singular survival as a symbol of American triumphalism.»

The isolated lamb in Hirst's Away from the Flock 1994 has become fully as totemic a symbol of his artistic identity as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living from three years before.

It is a surface that has been dug into, poured, splashed, pushed and pulled in a myriad of directions, as well as strewn with what is, for Kiefer, a perennial symbol of the cycle of death and rebirth and of macrocosm and microcosm: sunflower seeds.

Although the figure evokes death and decay, Lockett also saw it as a symbol of life and renewal, referring to it as a «baby» and titling the series Rebirth.

You've talked about the crow as being the symbol of death, not just about it being the symbol of Jim Crow.

The title of the exhibition, conceived to indicate the ability of human beings to manage their fear of death, includes the «™» symbol as a nod to both repetition (TM ™) and branding, or as the artist states «what could be a fictional firm specialized in the management of terror.»

The motive of crucifixion served as a symbol of pain and death, and Bacon used the allegory to make Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion.

Just as Whiteread's sculptures of beds inevitably prompt thoughts of birth, sex, and death, so the cast of the sink becomes a font, a testament to water as a symbol of life, as an element in human ritual.

The show thereby examines how light manifests as a symbol in our thoughts, obsessions and pursuits, and oscillates around a series of ideas as a material account of the known and unknown strangeness of the world, from the formation of the planet's crust to the death of the sun and the enduring preoccupation with light as a metaphor for truth, hope and optimism.

Recycling Warhol's car crash paintings from the Pop artist's «Death and Disaster» series, which in turn were appropriated from photographs of fatal accidents in newspapers, Turk swaps Warhol's American car with a white van, a symbol of a certain British white working class, now dying its own kind of slow death as the demand for blue - collar labor begins to dimiDeath and Disaster» series, which in turn were appropriated from photographs of fatal accidents in newspapers, Turk swaps Warhol's American car with a white van, a symbol of a certain British white working class, now dying its own kind of slow death as the demand for blue - collar labor begins to dimideath as the demand for blue - collar labor begins to diminish.

Throughout history artists have used symbols such as skulls, decaying flowers and clocks to reference death and the fleeting nature of earthly life.

Using image, word and symbol, Vandenberg challenged the ethical context of the work of art, wrestling with universal themes such as war, religion, movement, sexuality and death.

Playing on the contradictory associations of speed and power as suggested in the title, Running Thunder conveys notions of mortality and passage of time, very much like a vanitas painting containing symbols of life and death.

This symbol was adapted by early Christianity as a sign of Christ's victory over death and it has come to serve as a universal emblem of martyrdom.

Since his death, Pollock's reputation - founded on his position as the most representative of the Action painters and the symbol of the triumph of American painting after the Second World War - has never ceased to grow.

As Bleckner's work addresses the ever - present spectre of death, especially AIDs and how it decimated the gay community, Eichelmann's two subjects are also symbols of mortality and were, in their lives, widely believed to be homosexual.

It's possible that they do, but we're not talking about them individually; What we rejoice about is the death of a symbol for GM.There's no doubt in our minds that the vehicle that a car company picks as its iconic product has an impact on both the company itself (how it targets advertising, what the other models are like, what ideas it will reject as not fitting with a certain image, etc) and on what customers of that company expect, since the whole point of a halo product is to put a little of its DNA in the more affordable models.