Sentences with phrase «in symbolic ways»

The point, in any case, is about populations and ecosystems, not somebody's idea of a poor dear sweet bear — though no doubt the imagery would be powerful in symbolic ways quite beyond ecological ones.

If I may interject, I do believe that our «gods» are our external projections of an ideal, our attempt to understand the mystery in symbolic ways.

That movement is to be remembered and continually re-enacted in symbolic ways and in actuality in the church's life.

Nakedpastor David Hayward May 28, 2015 at 7:34 am I do believe that our «gods» are our external projections of an ideal, our attempt to understand the mystery in symbolic ways.

Questions of right and wrong can not be settled during a war but at most only after the war, and only in a symbolic way like the Nuremberg trials, and that too only if the Good Guys have won.

«In a symbolic way, I have your birthday card, Mommy,» he said.

I do it in a symbolic way, in a way which only gives a sense of a world that was shattered.»

The title of Philipp Fürhofer's recent exhibition, «Walpurgisnacht,» was borrowed from a scene in Goethe's Faust, so we can assume that the show's recurrent concern with light was to be understood not only literally, but also in a symbolic way.

They contain no words but act as poems about nature which enable the viewer to experience a place in a symbolic way.

That Chris Monckton is also tied to history in a symbolic way is no reason to chide readers on hearing what he has to say.

Not exact matches

«In a lot of ways, it's a symbolic way for Best Buy and Yahoo to remind their employees that the old ways are not going to guide the company.»

Last week: Kim Jong - un's trip to Beijing this week was symbolic in many ways.

Because this is, as you alluded to in your opening piece here, symbolic, in a lot of ways.

Yet, since they all can not be equally true in an actual, historical way, then they most likely are all equally «true» in the symbolic, mythical sense their creators made them to be.

By the time the narrative reaches the events of October, 1830, the field of conditional elements we have sketched is supposed to be fairly well constituted, but in a symbolic, prelogical way.

The renewal of the real presence was effected in many ways, but it focused in the Eucharist repeated specifically in memory and symbolic reenactment of the event.

The divine wisdom has devised a way in which our Redeemer's sacrifice is marvellously shown forth by external signs symbolic of death.

«Moving these «holydays» (how the etymology of that word says so much about what they were to our culture) represents a symbolic retreat of huge proportions; conceding the notion that the secular world and the imperative of its ephemeral commitments must now be considered more real than the way in which the divine has entered our history and shaped it.»

I have suggested that the language of religion may be understood as representing in a mythic and symbolic way at least a portion of the qualitative data given to us in primary perception.

At the core are those actually experimenting in a serious and disciplined way with new forms of community and symbolic expression.

However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

The babylonians symbolic for evil were to punish the jews but went way overboard in their cruelity and their lot is included with Satans bunch.

It is a well - established rule of interpretation that one should read symbolic or unclear texts in the light of texts that are non-symbolic and clear, not the other way around.

Both of these approaches pay attention to the way in which societies create «symbolic universes by which to negotiate issues of identity, legitimacy and the creation or resolution of conflict.

But there are two fundamentally different ways of approaching such an explication, and they are correlative with the two primary ways of understanding the language in which the confessional statement is made: the univocal, which takes the language as rigidly discursive, and the imagistic, which sees it as highly analogical or symbolic.

The anthropologist Claude Lévi Strauss argued that symbolic structures within human societies, including their kinship systems and their mythologies, could be analyzed in the same way, as systems of differences structured according to binary oppositions (e.g., life / death; male / female; hunting / farming; outside / inside).

by Franz Rosenzweig and Ludwig Strauss [Berlin: Lambert Schneider Verlag, 1928], p. 65 f.) This statement is symbolic of the way in which he has consistently answered this question: good can be maximized not through the rejection or conquest of evil but only through the transformation of evil, the use of its energy and passion in the service of the good.

For example, talk of coming down from heaven may have been appropriate in a world that conceived the divine habitations as almost literally «above»; it will also be appropriate as a useful metaphorical way of describing the presence among us of that which (again in a symbolic sense) is higher than human experience as such.

Even that is phrased in a poetic and symbolic way, but its point is clear.

They are indispensable symbolic ways of making ourselves in some sense contemporary with the past events of salvation history.

The gospels treat it as in some way symbolic of more than appears on the surface.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

Surely that great symbolic turning point will be marked in a variety of ways, not all of which will be pleasing to us if millennial sects succeed in capturing major attention.

Different churches treat their children in different symbolic ways.

Nor does the fact that these analyses, as he develops them, are not adequately distinguished from formulations that he takes to be analogical, but that I can accept only as symbolic, in any way interfere with my appreciating both kinds of formulations as having their proper places in any adequate philosophy.

It is a symbolic way of talking about attitudes and values of actual persons who have been caught up in devotion to one in relation to whom they have found a new and ultimately satisfying kind of life.

The program of Munch, developed very early in his career, is to probe in visual and symbolic ways the tensions between outer and inner worlds.

And there's a very good reasonfor the difference — the destruction of the curtain was symbolic to them in different ways.

I entered into the earlier long discussion on ontology and epistemology in preparation for submitting and testing the following assumption: Let us assume that the way we come to faith in God and come to develop symbolic expressions about relationship to Him is not fundamentally different from the way we come to have certitude about and develop symbolic specificity about our other relations.

This can not be done wilfully, of course, but emerges spontaneously from a particular way of appreciating the world: as an objective and beautiful thing, a symbolic reality whose fabric reveals, in a great variety of ways, the forms or archetypes of the world's order (pp. 13,125).

If the «will of God» is understood as a symbolic way of saying «the way things are» (the nature of reality in an orderly, cause - and - effect universe), the profound significance of this step becomes clear.

To see the universe as a whole in this way with the same God working in the universe at large, in the life of Jesus and in our lives was put in highly symbolic language by Paul in his letter to the Colossians about the Cosmic Christ.

It is difficult to see how Whitehead's own understanding of God is in any positive way in continuity with any metaphysical tradition, and as to its symbolic meaning, Christian theologians, other than the Whiteheadian faithful, have either been unable to understand it or have judged it to be atheistic.

Christians believe that this ultimate sacrifice redeemed us all from sin in the same way that lambs and other animals were once sacrificed as a symbolic way of cleansing people from sin.

Still, we can not envisage our symbolic creativity in this way until we become convinced that we ourselves are an expression, a germinating from the depths of the universe, and not aliens imparted from some other world.

Ok, on to Christian Baptism: Baptism is the public confession of one's faith, and is a symbolic gesture of putting to death your old sinful way of life (as in, living for yourself), and be raised a new creation in Christ (and now your focus is on His Will, not your own).

«15 Moreover, Whitehead emphasizes that symbolic reference, at least in human symbolisms, is generally a two - way affair in which the symbol and the symbolized are frequently interchangeable, a situation that suggests a reciprocal interaction between secondary (poetic) imagination and the social or cultural aspect of symbolizing.16

When one shares one's body, when one shares another's, as part of the give - and - take, as symbolic of the frustrations and appreciations that both face together in all areas of life, then sexual experience becomes a way of saying what we all need to say and to hear: «I care!»

Although Dalit Christians joined their neighbors in various symbolic ways to indicate their unity in invoking the protection of the colony goddess for their community, they were reluctant to admit to their pastor that they played any significant role in the celebration of their Dalit religious heritage.