Sentences with phrase «from ancient figures»

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Look at ecclesiastical history and you will figure out that the ancient bishops or pastors of single congregations were independent from each other.

Why a non-terrestrial culture would name their planet after a figure in ancient Roman mythology is open to question (Romulus and Remus were reared by a she - wolf and went on to found the city of Rome, which also takes its name from Romulus).

What is really fascinating is the theory that the Hebrew and Muslim deity figure derive from a war god in an ancient Semitic pantheon whose association with the other gods was lost in the confusion that time and oral tradition bring.

If the term «ecstasy» is applied at all to the giant figures in the succession from Amos to Second Isaiah, I would want to insist on Lindblom's distinction between ecstasy of the absorption type (involving loss of rational control) and that of the concentration type, and a very clear further distinction between the circumspective religion of the prophets and the more common ancient Eastern type of introspective, mystical piety.

As I researched this biblical figure, I learned from the Jewish writings that the ancient Jewish sages declared Melchizedek was none other than Shem, the eldest son of Noah.

The unworldly thinker is a figure of ancient legend: Socrates himself, of course, losing himself in thought at the threshold of a dinner party, as described in Plato's Symposium; or Thales, who reportedly fell into a well from looking at the stars; or Diogenes the Cynic, whose only request to Alexander the Great upon meeting him was that he get out of his sunlight.

But we will then have moved a long way from the historical figure of ancient Palestine.

I would say that it's more that she's figured out that the bible and religion in general is bull but like a child with a security blanket, she doesn't want to believe what she's figured out (like the child not wanting to believe that they've outgrown the blankie) and is desperately trying to rationalize clinging to her faith when the best thing she could do is free herself from what she deep down inside knows is untrue and silly ancient myths.

Abinadi, Odds are that you are a Mormon because your parents were Mormons and you were taught as a child that it was the correct religion by adult authority figures and most people you knew held the same beliefs, just as ancient Greek children were taught that the source lightening was Zeus hurling bolts of lightning from Mt. Olympus.

Among converts to Orthodoxy, for instance, as well as among many cradle Orthodox of a particularly rigorist kind, Dostoevsky is especially honored for having held firmly to Chalcedonian orthodoxy and having introduced the greater world to the figure of Father Zosima, from whom all the light of Eastern Christian contemplative spirituality shines out; and, more generally, among Christians of many confessions, Dostoevsky is revered as a prophet, the great Christian anti-Nietzsche, the voice of ancient Christian truth crying out in the spiritual desert of the modern West.

David Cameron and the older figures in his Cabinet are acutely conscious of this lesson from the Ancients.

But most ancient skeletons are highly fragmented, so it's difficult to figure out what kind of animal they were from, and what they were used for.

Katniss chose self - sacrifice over executing another, which makes her a Christ - like figure in this universe filled with references to everything from the Bible and ancient Rome to the Third Reich.

Shazam, who was first introduced into DC Comics in 1939, is an acronym of the ancient world gods and historical figures — Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury — from whom William Joseph «Billy» Batson's alter ego derives his heroic attributes when in adult form.

There is also a beautiful, authentic Japanese garden which has bridges, walkways and hand carved figures which have all been both imported from Japan and set out according to ancient tradition.

All those who pre-order one of the upcoming Sonic Boom video games from Gamestop will get an exclusive Sonic Boom figure by TOMY, featuring Sonic the Hedgehog with the Ancients» Crystal!

Starting today, if you pre-order a copy of Sonic Boom from Gamestop, or EB Games if you \'re in Canada, you \'ll be able to pick up an exclusive Sonic Boom figure by TOMY which features Sonic the Hedgehog with the Ancients \» Crystal.

The exhibition title references many facets of arts and culture traditions from ancient history to the modern day, arising out of Smith's meditations on the number's spiritual significance as a marker of immortality, as well a number of noteworthy cultural and historical facts and figures featuring the number itself.

Lu said, «in my opinion, from the ancient time to the present day, every painter uses paint to depict the world other than the paint — no matter figure, still life, landscape, and other things.

The exhibition features a selection of ancient Egyptian and Nubian artworks in wood, stone and papyrus, and 19th - and 20th - century masks, figures and ritual objects made by artists from regions south of the Sahara.

Sculptures from the history of art also feature, including an ancient Janus figure, as well as modernist classics such as Rodin's Burghers of Calais (1884 - 88) and Brancusi's Bird in Space (1923).

Her lexicon focused on the gesturing female figure as the protagonist, moving across space and defying the strictures of linear time by mixing historical narratives, drawing equally from ancient working processes and formats with her activist orientation and an ongoing questioning of the formation and construction of memory and representation, particularly the representation of women.

Past works by Kader Attia include Ghost (2006), a metallic phantom army resembling kneeling figures in prayer, or Untitled (Ghardaïa)(2009), a scale model of an ancient North African town made from couscous.

Intuition at Palazzo Fortuny looks at its titular theme through works ranging from ancient sculptures to modern movements (some great Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism and Fluxus) to contemporary art by figures such as Anish Kapoor RA.

The Documenta show in Germany this year included many historic works, ranging from ancient stone figures to still lives by the 20th - century Italian painter Giorgio Morandi.

The work features imagery from Attic vases, others the Kouros, or Edymion figure; some make use of ancient Greek, Coptic and early Arabic scribbling and graffiti, functioning like a wall found in a Ptolemaic archeological dig.

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The viewer is moved emotionally by what seems to be a plea from these figures and feels a deeply — yes, almost ancient — human response to their plight.

An injured warrior in ancient Chinese armor is followed by three equally ghostly figures, clearly from mutually contradictory times and historical backgrounds.

Transforming ancient symbols, myths, and ideas, he has created a personal visual language of dreamlike landscapes, animals, and human figures drawn from recollections of his travels.

The figures that were black and red were taken from Greek vases, the ancient Greek vases on which the images were black on red.

Line got unhinged from its ancient role as the means with which to describe a figure against a ground.

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

New York - based Ruby Sky Stiler forges sculptures and mosaics in which Amazonian female figures become one with ancient patterns and symbols, while Copenhagen and Berlin - based Alexander Tovborg's saturated, symbol - laden paintings draw from folk art and mysticism.

The first scans include a 2nd century bust of Greek mythological figure Ariadne, Roman tombstones, medieval baptismal fonts, part of the pelvis bone from Anglo - Saxon remains, and an ancient mosaic.

The sculpture, slated for the outdoor terrace, will be based on an ancient terracotta Jalisco figure from the museum's collection.

The first, Founding Figures: Copper Sculpture from Ancient Mesopotamia, ca. 3300 — 2000 B.C., is at the Morgan Library and Museum until Aug. 21.

The figures in paintings by Bettina Sellmann at Derek Eller Gallery emerge from chaos like misty, gem - colored invocations of the fearful nothingness ancient cultures believed to be just outside the human realm.

There were «monster «paintings of people with multiple eyes and mouths, and works that are now known as «transparencies, «which he produced by drawing figures «often appropriated from the paintings of Botticelli or ancient art «one on top of another on top of another.

The collection eventually ranged from 3,000 - year - old sculptures from ancient Egypt, and Tang dynasty Chinese figures, through an old master collection with works by Dürer, Raphael Tiepolo, and Gainsborough, to his impressionist, early 20th - century and contemporary works.

Also featured are stoneware and marble figures from the Cyclades Islands, ancient Greek and Roman ceramics, and bronze votive figurines from the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean.

The images Weathersby employs often depict a sculpture of a single human or animal figure and stem primarily from the periods of ancient Greece, Rome, and medieval Europe.

And I'd have to say that if I have to save my life by winning an argument with oil men in a bar in Midland, Tex., on this topic, I would go in with some lumps of black mudstone from the ancient rock record, I'd go in with the established figures on our present input of carbon dioxide, and I'd say which bit of this observational science do you guys quarrel with, and why?

It distanced science from the scholasticism of the ancient universities, and stressed that scientific knowledge is based on appeals to experimental evidence rather than to the word of authority figures.