Sentences with phrase «figures of»

Within this circle is Jehovah's name, Forward and backward anagrammatis'd, The breviated names of holy saints, Figures of every adjunct to the Heavens, And characters of signs and erring stars, By which the spirits are enforc'd to rise: Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, And try the uttermost magic can perform.

Donatello did three figures of strikingly similar, exceptionally powerful character, a Magdalena and two John the Baptist figures, one just before and one just after her.

Mariani speculates on the reasons for Stevens's conversion only in passing, hedging with «perhaps» and humorous figures of speech about an insurance lawyer opting to «sign on the dotted line» of the Church's creed.

He's one of the most famous and controversial figures of the new millennium, whose loose tongue wins him critics and fans alike.

Whether we rely upon «hard» poll data, or sales figures of books and periodicals, or an endless stream of anecdotal evidence, Darbyite premillennialism proves to be one of the most resilient and widely held belief systems that has ever gripped the American imagination.

Speaking of morons, you were the one who implied that your EXCUSE for what the Bible says was that it contained «poetry, figures of speech and metaphors.to name a few».

figures of speech..

Evidence for the existence of King Gilgamesh is found in inscriptions crediting him with the building of the great walls of Uruk, references to him by known historical figures of his time (26th century BCE) such as King Enmebaragesi of Kish and the Sumerian King List that says he ruled for 125 years.

(9) In contrast to much of Western poetry of sexual mysticism, though, Radha and Krishna are not figures of erotic allegory.

Drawing on the conventions of the classical literature of love and using an existing pan-Indian stock of symbols and figures of speech, the bhakti poets nevertheless strive for spontaneous, direct, personal expression of feeling rather than a rarified cultivation of aesthetic effect and the «emotion recollected», preferred by the Sanskrit poets.

Pastor John Hagee is a very dynamic speaker, he is extremely knowledgeable, and he uses a lot speaking skills to communicate with his audience, including figures of speech.

Christ's birth was celebrated to present him as a figure superior in every way to the central figures of this competing religion.

Being a messenger of god and having to experience watching and taking pictures of biblical figures of the bible are hard to see let alone spread the message.Write me back and tell me where i can send you pictures that are biblical this aren't made by computer or touched up.

I listened to Pastor John Hagee quite often for a good while, he uses figures of speech all the time.

He could do such painting without reverence, but when you think of Millet's great works, that make his name immortal, that he loved, brooded over, and put himself into, you know that he inwardly bowed himself, like the worshipping figures of his «Angelus,» before the vision of beauty that he saw.

Male and female co-leaders provide opportunities for growth in relation to authority — figures of both sexes.

One thing I look to in affirming the historical existence of figures of the ancient past is to look to the New Testament wherein many of the ancient figures and episodes are affirmed by Jesus and various sacred writers.

Where can and must the faith adopt the forms and figures of modernity - and where must it offer resistance?

It is this homeless Christ who represents 8,990 cultural contexts in the world today (I use the figures of statistician David B. Barrett).

The basic motivation for denying evolution is fundamentalism — the tendency to interpret the scriptures completely literally, refusing to allow any symbolism or figures of speech.

One would almost think that the West had only just had news of that victory, as it had just learned of the conquest of Jerusalem, and that the purpose of the company of statues that now was mustering in the glimmering recesses of cathedral porches was to reveal to men as living presences the figures of their collective dreams.4

In the second part of his article Fr Ross Campbell, assistant priest in Kirkintilloch, offers an insight into the challenging Mariology of one of the major figures of 20th - century theology.

[1] A. Sicari, «Mary, Peter and John: Figures of the Church,» in Communio 19 (Summer 1992), trans.

Norman Finkelstein's targets include revered figures of the Jewish world such as Elie Wiesel, influential Jewish groups such as the World Jewish Congress (WJC), and, most of all, the State of Israel and its vocal supporters.

in context that GOD created... He can cause it to happen in HIS way... laws of nature did not exist until there was something for it to influence... the writers of the Bible did not believe in flat earth or the sun revolving around the earth... seems to me you cant see figures of speech, but only false stuff... so why don't you tell the weather man at your local TV station to stop saying surinse and sunset eh?

It seems that all of the leaders and figures of authority have hidden child abuse.

Behaviour considered idolatrous or potentially idolatrous may include the creation of any type of image of the deity, or of other figures of religious significance such as prophets, saints, and clergy, the creation of images of any person or animal at all, and the use of religious symbols, or secular ones.

He has been attending at worship in the Temple, and remains there in meditation, his eyes upon the still smoking altar, and the bizarre carved figures of supernatural beings which we know to have adorned the building.

Messiah Complex is Brand's tongue - in - cheek attempt to claim his place among the great revolutionary messiah figures of global history Che Guevara, Gandhi, and, of course, Jesus men he refers to as his personal heroes.

He's one of the most famous and controversial figures of the new millennium, whose loose tongue wins... More

Few cults of deceased Hellenistic kings lingered on, and only a modest range of evidence attest cults or games or shrines for even the major Roman figures of the late Republic.

We have become so accustomed to speaking of computers as artificial minds and of their operations as thinking that we have forgotten that these are mere figures of speech.

The Historicity of Nature: Essays on Science and Theology by Wolfhart Pannenberg Templeton, 272 pages, $ 29.95 Wolfhart Pannenberg, one of the great figures of German Protestant theology, turns eighty this year.

Are these evangelicals holier than all the important figures of the bible?

Jesus and Saint Paul, the two towering figures of the New Testament were also open supporters of slavery and beating slaves.

Therefore, it does not aim to out - argue its opponents, but to shame them, to drive them from the field in ignominy, to make them figures of ridicule, moral indignation, and revulsion.

These witnesses, of course, include the great figures of black American political and cultural history, but they include as well the leaders of the founding generation who conceived and gave birth to our still - maturing democracy.

Acting from afar and through intermediaries are the great figures of Pascal, Montesquieu, and Rousseau — whom Tocqueville mentions as having read from every day without intermediaries and in rather naughty violation of the protocol of M. Jaume's intellectual history.

This freed him up to concentrate on locating his pitches, on choosing his words and analogies and shaping his figures of speech.

«One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.»

«I've worked with Nicholas exclusively for the past 3 years to run all of my lead generation, which has resulted in over 7 - figures of revenue directly from his efforts.

So people can rack up six figures of undergraduate and graduate student loans — and then have them forgiven.

In Q4 2017, Apple iPhone X was the most selling smartphone model with the sales figures of 29 million units.

The Manhattan office market remained steady with 2.3 million square feet of leases signed in April — though year - to - date leasing figures of nearly 9...

Overall the market capitalization had declined more than 50 % after all - time high figures of June this year.

Plaudits from foreign leaders like President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, as well as leading figures of the economic and diplomatic world, have helped to cement this image.

If one uses real rates of inflation produced by Shadowstats (versus the fantasy land figures of low inflation quoted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics every month for years on end), one can prove that the US dollar has crashed.

The deficit figures of 2009 were a source of great controversy in the past, as the then outgoing government under conservative Kostas Karamanlis was accused of fraud by claiming the deficit to be much less than it actually was.

No, not the David Hogg, of Parkland, who has become one of the most recognizable figures of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas student - led #NeverAgain movement.

«We are exceptionally excited to host a conversation with Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States and one of the most inspirational public figures of our time,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.