Sentences with phrase «biblical imagery of»

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.

Still, it seemed worth voicing a few protests, even if only a debiliori: that the biblical imagery of the redeemed state is cosmic in scope and positively teeming with fauna (lions lying down with lambs and such)-- that Paul's vision of salvation in Romans 8 is of the entirety of creation restored and glorified — things of that sort.

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.

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

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.»

Not exact matches

If this is some biblical analogy, Lentz has become Philip and Justin Bieber is the Ethiopian eunuch (we might need to leave that particular piece of imagery there).

Exploring some of the lesser - known metaphors and imagery employed by biblical authors to describe God, Winner lyrically invites the reader to imagine God as clothing, laughter, flame, food, wine, and a laboring woman.

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

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

While most of Barkun's theorists ignore the standard dispensationalist practice of documenting their scenarios with scriptural citations, biblical themes and imagery pervade their work.

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

I utterly reject Biblical inerrancy http://lotharlorraine.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/on-the-inspiration-of-the-bible-and-other-books-von-der-interpretation-der-bibel-und-anderen-buchern/ but find it interesting that this view of the afterlife is the most likely interpretation of the passages, provided one consider the Old Testament imagery in its own context.

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.

He acknowledges the importance of personalistic imagery in the biblical tradition.

What is the significance of the concrete biblical imagery?

The biblical writers were fallible persons like ourselves and could have made mistakes, the more probably because current Jewish thought was full of apocalyptic imagery.

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.

Black American politics is still largely inspired by religion and often led by clergy, usually of charismatic and evangelical bent; black political rhetoric can not be understood except in the context of biblical thought and imagery.

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

Of this distinctive vocation, Mgr Paul Marie Guillaum, wrote the following in 2006, reflecting on the teaching primarily of Pope John Paul II but also of Pope Benedict, drawing out much of the biblical and patristic imagery discussed abovOf this distinctive vocation, Mgr Paul Marie Guillaum, wrote the following in 2006, reflecting on the teaching primarily of Pope John Paul II but also of Pope Benedict, drawing out much of the biblical and patristic imagery discussed abovof Pope John Paul II but also of Pope Benedict, drawing out much of the biblical and patristic imagery discussed abovof Pope Benedict, drawing out much of the biblical and patristic imagery discussed abovof the biblical and patristic imagery discussed above:

God, as chief causative principle and as supreme affect, is «in this world or he is nowhere»; biblical material, and in relation to it Christian liturgical and hymnological imagery, with the theological articulation of this, intend to make affirmations which are to be found in the pictures and forms and myths — and these we must seek to make meaningful and valid for ourselves in our present existence; man is an «embodied» and a social occasion or series (or «routing») of occasions, organic to the world of nature, and can only truly live as he lives in due recognition of these facts and sees them as integral to himself.

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

The biblical writers use imagery of both realized and final eschatology to convey the assuredness of this present... (JR 291)

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.

The escalating attention to the biblical - era empire has been amplified by the open lament of some ethicists, church leaders and politicians that the U.S. has assumed aspects of an empire — complete with religious imagery to assure skeptics of its benevolent motives.

Behind the best of our languages they find, as Tocqueville did, relatively inert traditions that all five authors presumably wish were more active: biblical thought and imagery, and republican discourse and institutions.

Thus through a wealth of colorful imagery the Biblical writers were telling that processes such as have functioned in all ages will ultimately bring a wonderful day when right will be finally and permanently triumphant all the world around.

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 Reflections: African American Life from the Myrna Colley - Lee Collection, International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI 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 Etched in Collective History, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

2012 African American Art in the 20th Century, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony (1899 - 2011), The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA; Cape Code Museum of Art, Dennis, MA Group Shoe, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 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

In the Quogue Gallery show, for example, there are a number of words and numbers inscribed in the complex textures of the paint, from the Biblical «33» to the word «wu» itself and allusions to Jacob's Ladder and bird imagery related to the story of Noah.

He also encouraged him to use representational imagery (something Motherwell rarely did in his painting), despite the biblical prohibition of «graven» images.

Horace Pippin was an esteemed artist known for his renderings of the African - American experience, as well as biblical and historical imagery.

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