«Typing doesn't help the brain develop as much as writing in longhand, a tactile
means of expression with roots in scratching on cave walls, argues handwriting analyst Michelle Dresbold.
One is of painting's traditional
means of expression with media such as photography, video, sculpture, performance, printmaking, drawing, and installation.
Transcended by experience, Marina Abramovic perceives performance as
a means of expression with the outside world.
We have assisted students in the completion of a varied range of topics like the meaning of arts, human behavior, creations, philosophy and
means of expression with music and literature.
Not exact matches
For instance, last summer, the company launched the Novello, a modern, brightly coloured desk chair
meant to offer «an innovative and dynamic
expression of material science that synchronizes the seat and back
with every movement.»
Dating from the assumption
of power by the French Third Republic in 1870, it
meant having as little as possible to do
with the rest
of French society in so far as it seemed to be an
expression of republicanism and anti-Catholicism.
The body
of God, as theologians would say, is creation, understood as God's self -
expression; it is formed in God's own reality, bodied forth in the eons
of evolutionary time, and supplied
with the
means to nurture and sustain billions
of different forms
of life.
Wieseltier continues: «Both nationalism and religion are
expressions of the certainty, historical and spiritual, that we have not created ourselves, that we have sources, and that those sources have something to do
with the
meaning of our lives.
Simply by noting the overwhelming power and the comprehensive
expression of the modern Christian experience
of the death
of God, we can sense the effect
of the ever fuller movement
of the Word or Spirit into history, a movement whose full
meaning only dawns
with the collapse
of Christendom, and in the wake
of the historical realization
of the death
of God.
Sexuality is a dimension
of personal existence in which the
meaning of love is to be learned and in which love between persons reaches a depth, intimacy and creativity
of expression which is incomparable
with most other loves.
For Pope John Paul, the evangelising task
of the Church today must not only use new methods and
means of expression, but be suffused
with a new ardour.
The author
of this article may be well
meaning... have you heard the
expression «throwing the baby out
with the bath water»?
Waxing rhapsodic: «wax rhapsodic»
means to speak or write about something
with an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic
expression of feeling.
A revealing light can now be cast upon the problem
of the distinctive
meaning of an apocalyptic faith by comparing that faith — particularly as it is present in the radical Christian —
with the higher religious
expressions of mysticism.
What I
mean is the religiously atomized pluralistic society
of our time
of which all forms
of Christianity are only a part and in which we live together
with post-Christian neo-pagans, if I may be allowed to use this
expression.
The Coptic versions
of the New Testament and Thomas logion 113 lead us to look for an
expression that can be translated both «
with observation» (Luke 17.20) and «by expectation» (Thomas i 13), and that search takes us not to the Greek parateresis, but to the Aramaic hwr, which can have these two
meanings.
Paul tempers this reply — there is no sin in being married, but then, as if wrestling
with an issue which can not be settled by specific prescriptions, he gives his profoundest
expression of what the new life
means:
Such systems have the common character
of starting
with a fundamental Intuition which we do
mean to express, and
of entangling themselves in verbal
expressions, which carry consequences at variance
with the initial intuition
of permanence in fluency and
of fluency in permanence.
And yet we find ourselves in the strongest agreement
with the German scholar, Professor von Rad, whom we have cited before, in his own expressed feeling that after all, legend is not an adequate term, so long as it is commonly understood simply as a mixture
of history and unrestrained popular imagination (one part history, nine parts imagination — our comment, not his) We much better understand legend as a combination
of history and meditation, and as motivated primarily by a concern to give
expression to the
meaning of history, as that
meaning is conveyed by the faith that God makes himself known therein.12
Taking note
of the altered world - consciousness
of human beings in this century, according to which Being is to be understood in strictly interpersonal terms, Mühlen suggests, first
of all, that the classical
expression homoousios, as applied to the Son's relationship to the Father, does not necessarily
mean that the Son is
of the same substance as the Father but only that he is
of equal being (gleichseiendlich)
with the Father (VG 13).
But if Christian theology has the legitimate goal
of unraveling the
meaning of a «religionless» Christianity, it must take far more seriously than ever before the relationship between Christianity and religion, and this must
mean that it is now called to a full encounter
with the higher
expressions of religion.
For both men this
means «an active experiencing
with the client
of the feelings to which he gives
expression,» a trying «to get within and to live the attitudes expressed instead
of observing them.»
Thus the philologist would ascertain the
meaning of a passage
of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural, political, and religious development
of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an
expression of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal
with it from a folkloristic point
of view.
With the help
of man's ability to allow a certain element
of his being to appear in his glance, he produces a look that is
meant to affect the other as a spontaneous
expression reflecting a personal being
of such and such qualities.
From a logical point
of view, however, these two conceptions are not mutually exclusive, especially if Bultmann is right in regarding the true sense
of myth as the disclosure
of the «self - understanding
of man», and the objectivizing imagery
with its implied mythical world view the inadequate
means for the
expression of that sense.
Jacques Ellul in his many writings is one theorist who takes seriously the idea that there is ideology inherent in technology
with the consequence that the adoption
of particular technologies has implications for social and religious
meaning and
expression.
He is concerned
with the theologico - philosophical, epistemological, psychological, phenomenological and historical analysis
of the nature and
meaning of religion and
with the forms
of expression of religious experience and the dynamics
of religious life.
It
means that television, which has become the prime cultivator
of our culture, is providing us
with the myths, teachings and
expressions of our religion, whether or not we recognize it.
Hoefer 1979) says that the «rite has become a legal condition for the entry into the church which functions as a religious communal group; in this context it fails to convey its full
meaning and purpose as the
expression of or solidarity
with the new humanity in Christ which transcends all communal or caste solidarities»; he also refers to the conclusion
of Joseph Belcastro's book A New Testament Doctrine
of Baptism for Today, that «the N.T. does not teach that baptism was a condition
of salvation or church membership, but baptism was to be available for the disciples
of the coming church....
The conflict arises -
with religion and much else - when art is understood exclusively in terms
of «individual creativity,»
meaning self -
expression.
The democracy they devised was a republican system
of limited government,
with checks and balances, including judicial review, and representative
means for the
expression of the voice
of the people.
For the intrinsic relations between reason and justice, the praxis
of reason
with its priority
of contextual understanding over conceptual
expression,
means that the universality
of solidarity, or inclusive wholeness, is a universality that is mediated through the particularity
of local and communal struggles to transcend injustice.
The Hebrew thinkers,
with a penetration that might have spared some later thought its worst blunders, recognized that the
meaning of the world can be understood, if at all, only in the light
of, and by inclusion
of, human life, which is its highest
expression.
Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power
of its
expression, in the depth
of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle
with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem
of the
meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class
with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8
But the
meaning which this form
of expression is intended to convey must be illuminated from the central point
of the proclamation, not by disregarding these forms
of expression but, if I may be pardoned the metaphor, in continuous dialogue
with it.
Many years later I found the same
expression in a book by Jung
with the same
meaning of being bad not because
of what you've done, but who you are.
Since Bartimaeus
means «son
of Timaeus,» this is an instance
of Mark's practice
of quoting Aramaic
expressions with their
meaning in Greek (cf. Mk 3:17; 7:11, 34; 14:36; 15:34).
Once again, it must be made clear that talk
of enrichment is not
meant to suggest that God becomes any more «God» than he always has been; what is intended by such language is simply that, because God is supremely related to all occasions, these various occurrences provide material for his fuller
expression in relationship
with creation and at the same time bring about an enhancement
of the divine joy as well as a participation through «suffering» (or sharing as participation) in all that takes place in the world.
However, in our present consideration, «artistic
expression»
means simply the careful unfolding
of an idea in a way consonant
with the content and mood
of that idea.
An empathetic imagination
means first having the wisdom and grace to receive the images
of life about us and then secondly the freedom and confidence to reflect these
with appropriate
expressions.
By the end
of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most
of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism
of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given
expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger
of replacing salvation from sin at the heart
of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing
of the range
of disagreements, important differences continued, especially
with regard to the
meaning of salvation and the program
of dialogue
with people
of other faiths.
By not vocal enough, I
mean that in conversations I've
with Muslims there is very little
expression of disgust for the 9/11 attacks.
But,
with the same stroke, the very question
of the
meaning of such
expressions as wholly other, transcendent, and beyond, as well as act, word, and event, is avoided.
Since the twentieth century worked out its initial attitude toward the «historical Jesus» in terms
of the only available reconstruction, that
of the nineteenth century
with all its glaring limitations, it is not surprising to find as a second consequence a tendency to disassociate the
expression «the historical Jesus» from «Jesus
of Nazareth as he actually was», and to reserve the
expression for: «What can be known
of Jesus
of Nazareth by
means of the scientific methods
of the historian».
The Kingdom
of God is a reality here and now, but can be perfect only in the eternal order... The primary principle
of Christian Ethics and Christian Politics must be respect for every person simply as a person... The person is primary, not the society; the State exists for the citizen, not the citizen for the State... freedom is the goal
of politics... Freedom, Fellowship, Service — these are the three principles
of a Christian social order, derived from the more fundamental Christian postulates that Man is a child
of God and is destined for a life
of eternal fellowship
with Him... Love... finds its primary
expression through Justice — which in the field
of industrial disputes
means in practice that each side should state its own case as strongly as possibly it can before the most impartial tribunal available...
«The facts which are grouped together under these
expressions, and which give them their
meaning, are as follows:...
With our two hemispheres we think singly; with the identical parts of our two retinæ we see singly
With our two hemispheres we think singly;
with the identical parts of our two retinæ we see singly
with the identical parts
of our two retinæ we see singly....
So then all these lines converge on the one thought that the Logos,
with its double
meaning of word and reason, is the
expression of the mind
of God, and the power
of God in action.
The same
expression is also used
of Henoch, whose name
means «discipline» or «teaching» and who was «holy, and walked
with God, and was seen no more because God took him...» etc..
As Christians began to formulate what their newly found faith
meant, they discovered that some
expressions and images corresponded
with their growing «rule
of faith» and others fell outside
of what was doctrinally acceptable.
This tendency to look for fixed
meanings, authoritative images, sacred words, divine revelation, ultimate moral norms, the truth, is finally the
expression of our own insecurity
with human relativity and a symbol
of our desperate need for security.