Sentences with phrase «biblical metaphors for»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Just as the Jews in Biblical times achieved their dream of freedom and self - determination, many of the elements of the Exodus story serve as metaphors for how we can achieve our own dreams today.

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

In any case, we can see that his metaphors for God's active presence enlarged upon and enriched the biblical tradition, rather than being simply derivative.

If art means inspirational stories and pretty metaphors, there is so much in the Bible that is neither inspirational nor pretty that biblical preaching, at least, will probably not be mistaken for art.

«As an argument against this way of thinking, this kind of idolatry, I turn to the work of Walter Brueggemann, who, in an interview last year with Krista Tippett for On Being, explained the reason for the abundance of metaphors we find for God in the scriptures this way: «The Biblical defense against idolatry is plural metaphors.

In the biblical tradition another metaphor for infidelity, like adultery, is the metaphor idolatry.

He observes, for example, that the biblical texts are filled with metaphor, especially metaphors of the «anti-logical» A-is-B variety (e.g., «Joseph is a fruitful bough»).

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 this Ebook edition of The Land Between, author Jeff Manion uses the biblical story of the Israelites» journey through Sinai desert as a metaphor for being in undesired, transitional space.