Sentences with phrase «imaginative construction»

The works are imaginative constructions of figures, animals and birds.

And here, I think, we come to a question that challenges the viability of a theology conceived as imaginative construction: Granted that religious symbols and frameworks function to orient people in the world, could they do so if we believed that this were their only meaning?

The author writes about the power of the story in history and in imaginative construction of future possibility, and points out that narrative does not now occupy a central place in the school curriculum.

Kristol also was constantly thinking about the Jewish relationship with Christianity, from the early (and highly sympathetic) explorations of Auden and Eliot and a fascinating and learned essay on the Christian imaginative construction of Jews as both a suprahuman people in covenant with God and a subhuman people in league with the Devil, to more - contemporary treatments of the problem (much overblown, in his view) of observing, or enduring, Christmas.

Their focus is not on imaginative construction but on what they call the «realistic narratives» in scripture that render characters and circumstances in mutual interaction.

A hardworking, adaptable and imaginative construction manager with a vast creditable experience in architecture.

One strand is represented by Gordon D. Kaufman's «theology as imaginative construction.»

3 Whitehead also uses the related terms: «imaginative rationalization,» «imaginative construction,» «descriptive generalization,» and «philosophic generalization.»

Feminist theology includes poetic revisioning, aesthetic production and imaginative construction.

This new text in part is the old text, and in part is the imaginative construction of the preacher which did not exist until the moment of utterance by the preacher.

Modern rationalism uses the Cartesian method of discard as a preliminary guide to imaginative construction; but its essential point is that it starts with an imaginative system of ideas, the logical connections of which have been thoroughly explored.

Indeed, our comprehension of the present has more the character of an imaginative construction than of straightforward description.

Both phrases are pictures, both are imaginative constructions, both offer ways of thinking about God and the world.

In Haenchen's view the apostolic council is «an imaginative construction and corresponds to no historical reality».

White - head uses several labels for this method: imaginative rationalization, imaginative construction, imaginative experiment, imaginative generalization (Process and Reality, Corrected Edition, ed.

Playful in her approach, Floyer's constructions often function as visual puns, laying open the structural character of things and highlighting the dialectical tension between the literal and the mundane, and an imaginative construction of meaning.

Floyer's work examines a dialectical tension between the literal and the mundane, and an imaginative construction of meaning.

Ben Steele is an Atlanta - based painter whose works explore the imaginative construction of idealized places.