Sentences with phrase «as symbols of the faith»

As a religious Jew and a political secularist, I agree, privileging this piece of steel as a symbol of faith at Ground Zero is wrong.

My religion does not recognize the cross as a symbol of my faith but I can think of no other symbol which depicts mourning as succinctly or as universally as that does.

If the museum is to capture a piece of history, then it would be correct to showpiece what many people hold as a symbol of their faith and resolve to carry on.

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

As a symbol of that faith, they gathered and burned their magic books.

Mark offered the empty tomb as a symbol of the faith fact, that when our dreams die, when the life of faith collapses under the weight of illusion, Christ is not consigned to the tomb, nor does the whole structure of faith collapse.

The hijab is perhaps the most distinctive garment that someone would associate with Islam, and those who wear it do so as a symbol of their faith.

Not exact matches

In the aftermath of the referendum, Tsipras decided to present the head of his finance minister as a symbol that the Greek government was serious about negotiating in good faith.

Why not display other religious symbols alongside this as a sign of respect for the people of other faiths who also died in the towers?

Would you look the other way if the muslim community put a symbol of their faith in the museum as well?

A truly dialectical image of God (or of the Kingdom of God) will appear only after the most radical negation, just as a genuinely eschatological form of faith can now be reborn only upon the grave of the God who is the symbol of the transcendence of Being.

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

Medieval art as well dealt in symbols in an era when artists were more concerned with the world of Christian faith than with the world of scientific observation.

In terms of the current use of language, this means that they remain metaphysical, refusing to think of «God» as only a symbol of the community's faith.

Christians turned it into a symbol of their faith as a snub to the Roman Empire.

Did they find some symbols of other faiths bent and broken as well?

Well, I'm someone, and I would like this piece of the structure — which «just happens» to be the symbol of my faith and more importantly the symbol of the faith of so many 9/11 victims and their families — to be included in the exhibit as a matter of respect to those victims and victims» families to whom it is meaningful.

The reception of the Holy Eucharist is the most misunderstood aspect of the Catholic faith, and when the likes of such public policy - makers as Nancy Pelosi make a national mockery of Communion without consequence, there is little wonder why it has become a mere symbol of self - affirmation rather than the efficacious sign of personal transformation through the Cross of Christ and the «renewal of the mind» (Rom.

For all we could possibly know, all our psychical concepts apply to God not as analogies, but as symbols, in exactly the same way in which at least some of them clearly must apply if we are to do any justice at all to the faith and witness of theistic religion.

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.

However, offering slang and fashionable jargon as «renewed» preaching, celebrating the secular embrace of certain Christian symbols (i.e., use of crosses as warnings at highway danger points, putting Christ in Christmas, etc.), or reducing the Gospel to the lowest common denominator of acceptable faith and ethic will hardly be received by a serious world as adequate penance.

It can only be understood as a «symbol of the faith».

So it is here on the historical Jesus, as he is presented to me by the texts and encounters me as a person through historical reconstruction, that the decision of faith is made, not on the risen Christ as I would have liked him to be, or as, for example, he is accessible archetypally to all human beings as a symbol of the self.

Almost every department of theological study is involved at this level, and this means not only attention to the symbols and images of the Christian faith; it also means attention to the symbols and images and art forms of the contemporary world, as they are encountered in literature and the fine arts, but also in popular expressions, community rituals, social ideologies, and not least in the mass media of the time.

The letters showed a different woman than the symbol of Christian love and unwavering faith that much of the media portrayed her as.

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

Inculturation should not be understood merely as intellectual research; it occurs when Christians express their faith in the symbols and images of their respective culture.

Thus, in some of his early essays, Ricoeur is already giving this philosophical hope a hermeneutical turn, referring to it as «the Last Day,» which, in its original context in the Hebrew Scriptures, is a symbol of the hope of the community of faith for fulfilled righteousness and justice.

We move out of the church alone as well, carrying with us our own fragments of warmth and insight as we seek to make connections between the great symbols of the faith and the stuff of everyday life.

Easter faith as the symbol of hope offends no one, but Easter faith as belief in an empty tomb and in Jesus» bodily resurrection is quite another matter.

In the Orient, a fully dialectical form of faith, such as Madhyamika Buddhism, has inevitably dissolved all positive meaning, with the result that it has left behind the world of symbols, myths and dogmas.

Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.

He damns the religious structure in which the fervent hymns of praise and the devout symbols of dedication were matched by a fervent immorality and a devout pursuit of vanity; in which Yahwism was enthusiastically endorsed at the sanctuaries but — as Amos saw the Yahweh faith — blatantly violated in business, domestic, and personal relationships.

Rather than finding that most teens are reverential toward the symbols that represent what is most meaningful to them or even the symbols most closely associated with their own tradition, as Fowler asserts in his oft - cited argument of adolescent faith development, I found that teens actually approach all religious symbols more like what Frederic Jameson called bricoleurs.

No doubt there are family resemblances among different concrete practices and symbols of the Christian life, but it is far from clear that they are all expressions and manifestations of some one underlying «structure» or «essence» of faith - as - such.

First, the early church was responsible for summarizing the general doctrines of the faith in creedal form such as the rule of faith, the later Old Roman Symbol, and finally the Apostles» Creed.

Here, in a strange fashion, the original fusion of supposed fact and faith - image, after an interim period of being dismissed by the religious mind as purely symbolic and crudely so, becomes in our day once again the vivid symbol for a faith - interpretation of literal fact.

Having symbols of our faith and heritage removed from government property pales in comparison to such persecution, yet the Church fights them with as much piss and vinegar as Jesus turning over the moneychanger's tables in the temple!

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.

It's hard to fathom why the governor would skip these important symbols of collaboration, communication and good - faith, as they are the start of each year's vital dialogue between the branches of government.

If they're concerned about your credit, offer to pay more than the required security deposit as a symbol of good faith.

Emin describes the sculpture, often mistaken as a real bird, as a symbol of «hope, faith and spirituality» that acts as a point of contemplation.

In 1958, Guston exclaimed, «I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom.

It bears a curious title for such a peaceful image — one that Emin has described as a symbol of «hope, faith and spirituality» — because the Roman standards were nothing if not bellicose, an integral part of the language of warfare — and of the local identity of particular legions.

Here's a quote and some images by Philip Guston to think about: «I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom.

I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom.

The policy recognizes that it is not practical for some religious symbols — such as turbans and hijabs — to be worn underneath the uniform; wearing the cross is not a necessary observance of the Christian faith.

If a particular claimant testifies that she wears the niqab because as part of her practice of faith, that is all that is needed to make the niqab a religious symbol.

The court ultimately held that schools must not proselytize on behalf of a particular religious doctrine and that the display of crosses in the classroom exceeded the constitutionally established limits on freedom of religion, as the crucifix is a core symbol of the Christian faith and was being displayed in a public school where attendance is mandatory.