Here, the photographers behind the burgeoning discipline explain how it all came about — while showing
some extraordinary images of nature that prove the power behind the discipline.
Not exact matches
The power
of the human Orpheus to coerce
nature and the gods
of the underworld was an
extraordinary message in traditional Greek religion.11 This
image of human triumph helped make Orpheus founder and hero
of the Orphic mysteries, a cultic practice noted for personal asceticism and accomplishment, 12 that demonstrated the immortality
of the human soul.
Responsible theological teachers did not take at their face value the pictures
of heaven which were found in hymnody, nor did they regard the somewhat
extraordinary set
of images in Revelation as being an exact representation — indeed, these
images, laden with Jewish eschatological conceptions
of the
nature of the Kingdom
of God when there should be «a new heaven and a new earth» were sometimes felt to be slightly embarrassing.