Sentences with phrase «central symbol»

Words and images, used metaphorically, provide central symbols of the Christian tradition.

It must be acknowledged that the two central symbols, Lord and Father, are stumbling blocks for many people because theologians and preachers have been unwilling to listen to the often shocking insights into psychological consequences of the traditional use of these symbols.17

It is worth pointing out in response that anyone who thinks Christians have never grappled with the problem of evil can never have noticed that the crucifix is the central symbol of Christian faith.

It transformed some of the central symbols of Puritanism and introduced new values and beliefs which questioned not only the authority and function of Crown and Parliament but also the traditional role and power of established clergy and magistrate.

He recognized, as we have seen above, that the laws about tithing were for Jewish people living in a covenant relationship with the God of Israel, and with the Temple and the priestly Levitical system as one of the central symbols of that covenant.

Michael Novak puts it this way: «No one church was allowed to become the official guardian of the central symbols of the United States.

Rather, she realized over time that the central symbol of her religion was a crucified man, a realization we can see form over the course of «Ash Wednesday.»

In reviewing how her mind has changed from a Barthian position in the 1950's through the feminist and liberation theology emphases to a more wholistic and cosmic focus, Sallie McFague has experienced a deconstruction of the central symbol of God as patriarchal, hierarchical and militaristic, and a reconstruction of God as creator and sustainer of everything in his universe.

The central symbol of ecological thinking in this book is purpose.

The cross became the central symbol of the church's faith only because it had first been the actual center around which the whole remembered meaning of the life of Jesus had been gathered.

This central symbol of death and resurrection is a metaphor for the internal, psychological spiritual path means that the born - again experience is at the very center of the Christian life.

The central symbol for the alternative way of Jesus in the New Testament as a whole (and we find it in the Gospels as well) is death and resurrection.

The central symbols through which love of country is expressed should cease to be those of military might and should more and more come to celebrate those distinctive national aspirations and traditions that prefigure the reign of freedom and justice everywhere.

Chagall himself claimed that this dramatic use of the central symbol of Christian faith did not make it a Christian painting.

In the Christian context the central symbol through which the divine liberating mystery is revealed to the faithful is the man Jesus who is called the Christ.

One hears echoes of Ruskin's nostalgia for the harmony of the medieval manor in contrast to the din of modern factories, or of James» preference for the Virgin over the dynamo as the central symbol of power in society, or of Schumacher's «small is beautiful» against the «great industrial city.»

The central symbol of Chanukah is the menorah.

«The central symbol portrays two children emerging from a pleasurable learning experience as they spontaneously explode in joy.

Aluminum foil serves as the central symbol of matter throughout many of her paintings.

The bed is also a central symbol in Rinquist's work as she encrusts bed sheets and pillowcases with commercial vintage patterns of bonneted girls, tomatoes and hens to comment on gender roles.

It would be nothing short of naïve to represent Cooper Union as the world's central symbol of elitism and inequity in the area of art and art education.

Another milestone in the project's success was the widely circulated piece in The New Inquiry by Eunsong Kim and Maya Isabella Mackrandilal criticizing the framework of the Whitney Biennial, with the Scanlan piece as a central symbol.