Sentences with phrase «biblical imagery»

What is the significance of the concrete biblical imagery?

Teilhard is helpful at this point because he does bring together in his thought an understanding of the world — if not God — as a thoroughly processive reality and a positive use of biblical imagery of the eschaton as finis.

Butler also has a fascination with Biblical imagery here that hasn't been present in past projects.

When people think of biblical imagery for the church, the most common picture that comes to mind is the Body of Christ.

From consistent Biblical imagery (and actual Bible verses) in The Walking Dead to the mess of Mother!

Like the other great American songwriters his poetic songs about politics, love and life are steeped in biblical imagery and spiritual themes that weave beautifully through guitars, string sections and banjos in brilliantly earthy compositions.

As someone whose Dictionary of Biblical Imagery makes for regular causal reading, I am loving every word.

He provides a spirited defense for each selection, linking them whenever possible to historic hymns, pertinent scriptural verses, and relevant biblical imagery.

Griffiths brackets the thorny question of how to interpret Balthasar, whose vivid biblical imagery and brilliant conceptual formulations do not lend themselves to easy summary.

Religious leaders, I think, face alternatives not easily reconciled: to try to form communities in which biblical imagery and ideas provide an alternative vision to our cultural ones, or to engage in a process of mutual critique, edification, correction and revision of frameworks that are informed both by our religious traditions and by the sciences and culture.

Ljubica D. Popovich, «Popular American Biblical Imagery: Sources and Manifestations,» in Phy, The Bible and Popular Culture, 209.

Coming from a script by Nick Cave, The Proposition has its fair share of grim Biblical imagery.

There is real tension to this sequel as Tim Burton delves deep into biblical imagery to bring us a Penguin that wants to kill all Gotham City's firstborns for having scorned him (he well, uh, looks different - bit like a mutated Ebenezer Scrooge).

This new placing of the character plays in a humorous way with the two distant times represented, the historical, mythical and sometimes biblical imagery of the past, coming up against the ordinary materialistic and consumerist attitude of modern times.

Melville was not unfamiliar with Biblical imagery and symbolism.

From consistent Biblical imagery (and actual Bible verses) in

Against my own abstaining Methodist forebears I would argue (and I think John Wesley would back me up on this) that wine is necessary at the Lord's Supper not only because it is obviously related to the full range of biblical imagery of the «fruit of the vine» and the «spirit» but also because it is a symbol of humanity's creative and demonic potential.

At the same time, the biblical imagery associated with the end of the world is not very helpful.

But when it's making a point that seems to change the point of the biblical imagery, yeah, then it becomes a problem.

For the most part, the biblical imagery of the end time is retained and the philosophical description of immortality (sketched in the previous chapter) is used.

When he offers a book - length «vindication of democracy and a critique of its traditional defense,» he does so by employing the biblical imagery of «the children of light and the children of darkness.»

The biblical imagery underlying the conception of the new nation was sufficiently generalized, sufficiently pruned of anything specifically Protestant, so that both Catholics and Jews could easily echo it.

We are not free to tamper with the Biblical imagery without losing some of the mystery.

I now wonder if the labyrinth and the glowing birds have some biblical imagery that escapes me.

(Abingdon) and Biblical Imagery of God as Female (forthcoming from Crossroad.)

For an account of the mix of biblical imagery with patriotism in the thought of religious leaders and political figures in the nineteenth century, see Conrad Cherry, God's New Israel (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1971).

If we interpret the biblical imagery by negating its specific content (it's not this, not that...)-- what theologians call the [i] via negativa [/ i]-- what is left of it?

It is utterly inconceivable that Biblical imagery should be forced into such a straitjacket as this.

It might be my buttocks burning after corporal punishment — like the fire of Biblical imagery.

The biblical imagery of sheep and their shepherd does not quite match our assumptions — be they positive or negative assumptions.

I find this almost laughable, for it shows a complete disregard for biblical imagery and symbolic terminology.

He presented socialism in a very American rhetoric, full of biblical imagery and steeped in American history.

Ortega's use of biblical imagery to describe U.S. attacks against his people illustrates why the Santa Fe Report targets liberation theology as enemy.

But watching it with the Sacred Heart League in mind makes all the biblical imagery seem slightly sinister.

Bottom line is that your entire premise just doesn't fit the biblical imagery or teaching about redemption.

I would ask you to consider studying what the true «Biblical imagery or teaching about redemption» is while using the Bible as your reference.

They may also emphasize the biblical imagery that suggests movement and physical expression in the worship of God.

Someone in Hollywood realised at the time of the Bush administration that were big dollars in redressing Christian entertainment with biblical imagery and action clichés.

2013 INsite / INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY Ashé to Amen: African - Americans and Biblical Imagery, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY; Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture; Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN