Sentences with phrase «biblical metaphor»

That is why the wilderness is the enduring biblical metaphor of a hard place in life where faith grows.

To suggest to you how central this notion is to the biblical tradition — one of the central biblical metaphors for infidelity to the relationship with God is adultery.

It's a beautiful song, laced with biblical metaphor, and it's a rare attempt in a modern worship lyric to focus on the reality of Jesus» return.

Then I noticed that my parishioners easily referred to scripture in their conversation, freely used biblical metaphors, and sometimes mentioned obscure biblical texts that I had never read.

Her book Metaphor and Religious Language (Oxford University Press) argues for taking biblical metaphors seriously and for not translating them into some other idiom.

No other single biblical metaphor has such range.

Following biblical metaphors, God is imaged by most Christians as a cosmic Self who responds to worldly happenings in various ways, and who, in so doing, takes those happenings into account, or experiences them in some way.

The operating biblical metaphor regarding worship is sacrifice.

The 20th century opened the New Testament era of US foreign relations which, as McDougall's Biblical metaphor suggests, involved the US actively shaping the global environment.

While some moviegoers applauded director Darren Aronofsky for his ambitious Biblical metaphor, others outright hated the picture and it tanked at the box office ($ 17.8 million domestically).

In fact, evergreens are biblical metaphors for reversal: they symbolize divine reversal from a state of accursedness and judgment to a state of blessedness and restoration.

We should be cautious about relinquishing the rich language of biblical metaphor.

One time years ago, in the middle of a sermon I was preaching on the Biblical metaphor of sheep and Shepherd, I said something to the effect that sheep tend not to be terribly bright and will blindly follow whatever or whoever attracts their attention.

To use another biblical metaphor, our goal is the «glorious liberty of the children of god.

The relationship of the Christian to Christ is expressed in a variety of biblical metaphors.

The biblical metaphors that represent these two traditions are salt and spice — an unlikely match.

As a biblical metaphor, it is incomplete — it doesn't tell us everything about man's relationship with God.

Nissar Modi's screenplay sometimes treads too heavily with the biblical metaphors, but Zobel never does.

I'd agree that the biblical metaphors are like sledgehammers sometimes but I really responded to the film overall.