Sentences with phrase «metaphorical language of»

Visits to the Virginia landscape would be the catalyst for his transformation of childhood memories into a metaphorical language of symbols and forms that constitute his inner vision, portrayed in lush, jewel - like tones that bring a new sense of sunlight to the artits's work.The chromatic brilliance of From a High Place, and the manner in which the linear shapes have dissolved into the atmosphere of the canvas is reminiscent of Kandinsky.»

Jarmusch wastes little time establishing the visual and metaphorical language of Only Lovers Left Alive, cutting back and forth between Adam and Eve in their disparate countries to establish their deep connection even when apart (a concept that pays off beautifully in the film's final scene).

The martyr church compels us to pay more attention to the metaphorical language of the Scriptures.

Not exact matches

In highly metaphorical language Paul speaks of all things having been created through Christ.

In conclusion, the point should be reiterated that to say that the gospel of Christ is to be stated in language which is avowedly metaphorical does not in any sense whatever imply that the gospel is not true.

Nor does it mean that, in preaching the gospel in conscious recognition of the metaphorical nature of the language we use, we are speaking in what might be styled a «Pickwickian» manner.

* In the first place, while the language of religion is metaphorical, this blanket statement needs to be broken down so that we see that certain distinctive forms of speech are appropriate to certain distinctive kinds of biblical reference.

It is a metaphorical statement, true in its own poetical fashion; it is a most valuable way of saying in symbolical language, that he who is supreme in the order of being was for our sakes willing to be united to and self - expressed in the life of the Brother - Man who is therefore our Lord and Saviour, Emmanuel, God - with - us.

You know all of that, but you're still able to hear these as true stories, as metaphorical narratives using ancient archetypal language to make, among other affirmations, that Jesus is the light coming into the darkness, to make the affirmation that the Herods of this world constantly seek to destroy that which is born of God.

Both these authors use a fair amount of metaphorical language — an inevitability, since all language is in some way metaphorical.

The language of religion is always highly metaphorical — we might also say mythological, imaginative, poetical — and it can not be taken as if it were a literal story or something similar to straightforward human discourse.

The gospel account looms behind every scene in the lengthy midsection of the film, an unfilmable story, written in poetic, metaphorical, passionate, committed language.

The secret of his success was that he spoke a metaphorical language that was commonly understood in antiquity: Christ, he said, had given himself up for us «as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.»

It is no longer being expressed in a mythological manner, even though it has drawn upon the language common to mythology; rather the idiom of resurrection has here assumed a metaphorical form, by which Israel prays for the revitalizing of her life as a people.

The source of these difficulties, I believe, is his theory of analogy, the attempt, in connection with his neoclassical theory of religious language, to establish a third stratum of meaning, or set of concepts and terms, distinct both from the set of plainly formal, strictly literal concepts and terms, on the one hand, and from the set of plainly material, merely symbolic or metaphorical concepts and terms, on the other.

But after years of work on the poetic, metaphorical nature of religious language (and hence its relative, constructive and necessarily changing character), and in view of feminism's critique of the hierarchical, dualistic nature of the language of the Jewish and Christian traditions, my bonds to biblicism and the Barthian God loosened.

Indeed, it may be said that whenever Paul speaks of what Christ accomplished (or of what God accomplished through him), his language is either mythical or metaphorical; and the distinction between myth and metaphor is not always easy to draw.

N. T. Wright supports this metaphorical approach to the language of the future hope.

The significance of intuitions is also indicated by Bergson's view that it is by intuition that humans have access to reality It is also significant that these intuitions are expressed in metaphorical language (in «fluid» thoughts).

Owen Barfield is a British literary theorist and philologist who has extrapolated from Goethe, Coleridge, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Friedrich Max Muller in order to argue that language is basically and naturally metaphorical.8 Reasoning from this thesis, Barfield has also had some provocative things to say about the evolution of consciousness.9

Fighting his own buoyancy, Brown employs a method which proceeds without the help of its strongest allies: the irrational basis of consciousness and the metaphorical basis of language.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

Symbolic, metaphorical, mythological language gives us the capacity to bring experiences of a certain kind to awareness, thereby creating the basis for reflective reasoning.

As a result, philosophy can only pretend to escape the vagueness and metaphorical nature of its language despite its pretense at formality and precision (MP 292).

Most ordinary theologians today are impressed with the metaphorical, symbolic and mythical character of our language and our concepts.

The rhetorical and metaphorical quality of language is so pervasive that the reference of language is always dubious.

We have come to see, as a matter of fact, that religious assertion by its very nature is inevitably couched in such metaphorical, symbolical, if you will poetical, language; and that all deep faith must express itself in this way if it is to express itself at all.

And again, through the work of other scholars like Bultmann and Buri, with their frank recognition of the mythological element in the biblical story, we have come to see that the affirmations of Scripture have their abiding significance, not in spite of, but precisely because of their being stated in language which can only be described as highly metaphorical.

Hence the role of metaphor in explanation depends not only upon analogy, but also upon the more detailed specification of the presupposed environment brought about in the stretching of meaning by the metaphorical use of language.

In doing so, he moved away from the narrow constraints placed on modern science by the use of metaphorical language that often gave a highly restricted picture of the natural world.

The literal / inerrant view was born out of ignorance — ignorance of the biblical texts in their original language and of their metaphorical context and ignorance / misunderstanding of scientific discoveries and theories.

Christian womanist theological methodology needs to be informed by at least four elements: (1) a multidialogical intent, (2) a liturgical intent, (3) a didactic intent, and (4) a commitment both to reason and to the validity of female imagery and metaphorical language in the construction of theological statements.

The metaphorical and analogical potential of language facilitates the crystallization of social values and norms by which experience is interpreted.

Or is it intentionally metaphorical language to convey the overpowering awe, mystery, and power in the manifestation of the Glory of God?

It also means being aware of imaginative associations wherever they occur, and often this will involve cultural discomfort for the theologian, for the center of metaphorical renewal of Christian language in our time is often not among Christian poets but in popular culture and in «secular» artists.

There is no way of exhausting the significance of the poem's possibility of helping us to encounter the crucifixion, just as there is no way of exhausting the understanding ingredient in all primal language, for the associations of metaphorical language are infinite.

As Beardslee says, the original impact of the New Testament was made «by a «deformation» of language, a stretching of language to a new metaphorical meaning which shocked the hearer into new insight.

Using language that is poetic, metaphorical, suggestive and imaginative, Jesus talks of being born from above.

There is a close parallel in the interaction of metaphorical language and literal language; there is no sharp line between the two, but only a distinction which is relative, shifting, and contextdependent.31 «Man is a wolf» invites reflection not only on wolf - life characteristics of man, but also on man - like characteristics of the wolf, which is seen thereafter as more human.

In comparing their computational predictions against the actual historical record provided by the Metaphor Map of English, researchers found that their models correctly forecast about 75 percent of recorded metaphorical language mappings over the past millennium.

«This work brings opportunities toward modeling metaphorical words at a broad scale, ultimately allowing the construction of artificial intelligence systems that are capable of creating and comprehending metaphorical language,» he added.

Last year, the same team was the first to identify a set of principles governing another aspect of language development: metaphorical mapping.

Actually, what many of these writers attempt to do is to take the sometimes impenetrable and metaphorical language and philosophy of yoga and render it intelligible to modern Western minds.

In the language of free - to - play developers, this is a minimum viable product, offering players the framework and certain floors of the building, but leaving much pending, beneath a metaphorical sign that reads «under construction».

And while Newman's heavy, metaphorical language hasn't withstood the test of time, his perceptual legacy is evergreen: artists from Op art to Scottish bad boy Jim Lambie's psychedelic neon - tape floor patterns have attempted new ways to trick viewers» eyes.

The exhibition's chronological installation brings to light intriguing parallels between these three time periods, revealing dynamic through - threads within the artistic depiction of identity from 1912 to the present, such as the turn to language, symbolic attributes, and the metaphorical significance of color and form.

For centuries, Dante's literary works and metaphorical language have been a source of inspiration for visual artists, inspiring European masterpieces by Sandro Botticelli, Eugène Delacroix, William Blake and Auguste Rodin, among many others.

The exhibition's chronological installation reveals intriguing parallels between these three time periods, revealing dynamic through - threads within the artistic depiction of identity from 1912 to the present, such as the turn to language, symbolic attributes, and the metaphorical significance of color and form.

The Stella or star, as well as cosmic and alchemical motifs have been a recurring subject of his experimental practice, often relying on symbols and metaphorical language.

Commemorating the new complex itself, the show was a poetic expository on the language of architecture and its myriad metaphorical interpretations in the fields of culture, politics, environment and home.