Sentences with phrase «figural readings»

His choice of colors — mainly primary colors, different fleshy tones, browns, and blacks — contribute to the figural readings of the works, regardless of how they are made.

But he does not hesitate to offer figural readings of the Bible, drawing on patristic, medieval, and Reformational patterns of interpretation.

Pre-modern ways of reading, especially figural reading, are not only fruitful but necessary.

It has finally become apparent that historical - critical reading of scripture simply can not sustain spiritual life, and efforts are underway to recapture the figural reading of the older tradition.

Calvin, on the other hand, refuses «to torture David's words,» as he puts it, with such a figural reading.

Not exact matches

The present volume shows that figural interpretation is indeed an essential Christian reading strategy.

Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness by richard b. hays baylor, 177 pages, $ 34.95

I was also predisposed to welcome, at a much later date, the work of my Yale colleagues Brevard Childs and Hans Frei on canonical reading and on narrative and figural scriptural interpretation, respectively.

The exhibition rewards a bit of work at the gallery, such as climbing the stairs toward the second floor for a better view in the stairwell of Blue Blush, a horizontal work that reads more as a still life than the figural suggestion of the vertical paintings.

His distinct works resist a single reading, only rarely depict familiar shapes, and are open to a wide range of interpretations, narrative associations, and figural references.

She translates garments into metal and plastic, enlarging the scale and simplifying form to create pieces that read as both figural and architectural.