Sentences with phrase «given symbolic expression»

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

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Proust's world was preponderantly made up of subjective emotions and objective observations, whereas Dostoievsky and Blake first participated fully in what they experienced and only later attained the distance which enabled them to enter into an artistic relationship with it and give it symbolic and artistic expression.

In the end this symbolic expression can have just so much meaning for us as we can give it through specifying that in our experience which bears it out.

The cross is commemorated not in separation from the rest of Christ's life and work but as the final symbolic expression of a total self - giving to God, in which through prayer and thanksgiving Christians are enabled to share.

Not that this book is any less tightly argued or given to symbolic expression than Hartshorne's previous works.

Thus we can not treat artistic expression as the choice of an external symbolic form to reflect feelings which are simply given.