Sentences with phrase «as symbols of life»

People around the world have used labyrinths and mazes as symbols of life's complications.

Bread is not forgotten and, as the symbol of life's physical basis, is made an object of request in the Lord's Prayer.

Breastfeeding has a long history of being recognized as a symbol of life.

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.

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.

In the artist's words, «I chose the spiral as a symbol of life's continuity.

«This series exemplifies Fischl's sense of voyeurism and his use of water as a recurrent theme, both the ocean as a symbol of life and the swimming pool as its domestic manifestation,» according to the arts center.

Not exact matches

Rather, the pager is a symbol of Apstein's other life: as a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, where he specializes in diseases of the digestive tract, including the liver.

In effect, he turned the patriotic poster on its head, making it serve in his novel not as a symbol of heroic national resolve but rather of insidious government intrusion into the lives of its citizens.

Could this use of marriage as a symbol of salvation have a reviving effect on our prayer lives?

The white lily is thought to be pure as Christ and a symbol of the purity of the new life that comes from being resurrected.

And that bleaching has not produced a more tolerant people, but a far more intolerant civic life, of which the recent awfulness in Charlottesville, Virginia, may stand as a vile symbol.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

In Play it as it Lays and elsewhere, Las Vegas is an apt symbol of human life — a chancy venture with no external meaning or significance.

Since time immemorial, etiquette has been used to establish the principles of social virtue, as well as the rules, symbols, and rituals of civilized life.

This mystery is richly captured in John Allen's description of John Paul as «a living symbol of human suffering, in effect, an icon of Christ on the cross.»

The temple was seen as the central incarnational symbol of Jewish life.

They can understand how any claim to «God's word» is clothed in linguistic particularity and rhetoric requiring interpretation, and that every tradition requires a reinterpretation in order to transmit symbols from one generation to the next as living vehicles of meaning and not as museum artifacts.

And it was an expression of her indomitable affirmation of life that she chose «reincarnation» as her symbol for the invisible order.

The sacrifices were confided in by good men as the outward symbols of forgiven sin and reestablished fellowship with God, but they were also confided in by evil men as an efficacious technique for placating God regardless of one's ethical life.

The definition of worship as «the celebration of life» was coined by Chicago's UU minister Von Ogden Vogt (who also guided the construction of a Gothic UU church freighted with symbolism but devoid of any traditional Christian symbols beyond the cruciform floor plan!).

This is as it were a symbol of everyday life which is a mean between the abysmal terror of Good Friday and the exuberant joy of Easter.

He recognized, as we have seen above, that the laws about tithing were for Jewish people living in a covenant relationship with the God of Israel, and with the Temple and the priestly Levitical system as one of the central symbols of that covenant.

This felt contrast between solitariness and community is the empirical datum which underlies the multitude of religious symbols, such as creation, incarnation, resurrection, nirvana, samsara, moksha, tao, wu - wei, t» ien, each of them, in their wide variety of forms and connotations, pointing to some aspect of organic life together.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

Fifth, Christians choose to use «God» as the symbol for the ultimate mystery of this creative process, so that «life must at all points be lived in awe and respect before the ultimate mystery of things.

As a living exemplar of Christ on Earth, he is already halfway to being a symbol.

Insofar as meaning is contextual, the meaning of life ultimately depends on a different kind of symbol — not amenable to empirical falsification — which evokes a sense of the ground of being.

The doctrine of forgiveness, the doctrine of the Cross as a symbol of redemption, the myths and the mysteries surrounding the human body and human sexuality, the identification of sin and temptation with femaleness, the Image of God, the mind / body dualism that devalues female life, the depreciation of creation... these are some of the problems Christianity poses, giving subtle sanction to the violence women experience.

While frequently seen officiating at state events (a portcullis symbol on her stole denotes her office) alongside John Bercow (or Mr Speaker, as she refers to him), she's still involved in the normal life of priestly ministry.

The need for some overarching symbol system can be fulfilled in a variety of ways: through personal philosophies of life, scientific worldviews, secular philosophies such as Marxism or nihilism, or commonsense ideas about luck and fate.

The association of feasts with significant moments in life finds its ultimate use as an eschatological symbol of celebration and renewal.

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

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.

In fact one (of many) miscues in the gospels is when Jesus is claimed to have ordered his apostles to «take up the cross» — the cross would not have had meaning to Jesus when he was living... unless of course... oh right... the cross had been around as a religious symbol for thousands of years... oops.

«We are deceivers, yet true in clinging to the idea of the fall as a symbol of the origin and the nature of evil in human life.»

«A better perception of the rural background of the parables of Jesus» as Legrand concludes, «helps better to appreciate the roots of Jesus in Galilean village life and his originality as a symbol maker.

Shawn: Since you do not believe in the meaning of the Cross, nor any other symbols of belief, perhaps you should stop using our money, using our legal system, living under US law, using the protection of our laws as they were set up under God.

Some Mormons do wear religious garments under their clothing as a symbol and a reminder of the promises that they have made to God to live a clean, morally upright life and to worship and serve Him and their fellow men.

In Theology in a Nuclear Age he writes that theology must redefine God as «the unifying symbol of those powers and dimensions of the ecological and historical feedback network» sustaining the fragile web of life.

The life of its people together will be complex, the demands of being a Christian difficult, but they will find joy and peace as they seek to embody the symbol of one who gave his life for what he believed.

I saw in all this, as people abandoned a dying building for a new and living one, as they established a new place for themselves and their children, a symbol of resurrection.

Literal - minded Moslems have, no doubt, often enough taken these as literal pictures of the future life just as Christians have taken literally the pictures of immortal existence as given in their sacred book; but many Moslems, like many Christians, believe that these words are but symbols through which the Prophet attempts to give some conception of the life hereafter, which he obviously believes may be one of bitter judgment or of supernal delight.

This was just the kind of religious life portrayed in the New Testament, not only as a model and pattern, but as a challenge and inspiration The New Testament was thus the abiding source of power which enabled man to realize the true life of religion, and Christ was the eternal symbol for the cultus of the Christian Church.

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.

Within the various theologies of liberation movements, the symbolic construction of justice seeks to express the dialectical movement within the function of Christian symbols: justice enables us to name faith, and faith symbols reconceived as justice allow us to envision new spaces of life together.

In the UK Christians are not allowed to offer prayer in a hospital to the sick, on airlines wearing a Christian symbol of a cross is not allowed, Christian teaching in school must not be taught as the only truth, and a blind eye is turned to extreme religious life styles.

That same symbol is used in the Garden of Eden as the promise of provision, in Jeremiah 17 to illustrate a man whose trust is in the Lord, and in Revelation 22, which describes another tree of life that bears fruit in the new earth.

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.

If we eliminate baptism as a symbol of a new life in Christ, then we would have a very difficult time explaining the passages which mention baptism, and especially Romans 6:4.