Sentences with phrase «mythical figures in»

no records) Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.

It has become a mythical figure in New York City's art scene, engendering the gallery Reena Spaulings and a crew of followers that is reminiscent of Colin De Land's now defunct American Fine Arts during its heyday in the 1990s.

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Any pre-Jesus reference to resurrection were mythical figures and the comparisons to the Biblical account of Jesus» resurrection are minimal and would need to be stretched quite far in order to apply.

In reference to non-historical figures, Gary Habermas states «In each of these cases we find numerous problems such as a decided lack of historical data, reports that are far too late or stories about mythical personages who never lived.»

By turning John F. Kennedy» the embodiment of pragmatic, rationalist, results - oriented anticommunist liberalism» into a mythical figure whose idealism could never be recaptured, the hagiographers helped undermine the confidence in progress that had once characterized the liberalism of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Kennedy himself.

How strange that in the space of just one week a book reviewer in the New York Times mentions the «frisson - inducing» discovery only nine years ago of a ninth century B.C. stele referring to the «House of David,» thus issuing «a stony rebuff to those who think that David is a mythical figure,» while another...

The survey, conducted by Barna Research on behalf of the EA, HOPE and the CofE, claims that in total, 22 per cent of people think Jesus was a mythical figure, while 17 per cent are unsure whether he was real or not.

My argument was that Pure Land Buddhism identified its founder with a mythical figure, Dharmakara, that there are advantages in connecting one's tradition to historical reality, that the emphasis on other power or grace is clearer in the Christian tradition than in most Buddhism, and that Jesus could function as an historical embodiment and teacher of grace.

In many religious communities certain mythical or historical figures are regarded as protoptypes of the true believer; frequently the founder or outstanding prophets and leaders play this paradigmatic role.

Archaeologists in Israel may have just made a significant discovery leading to further evidence that King David was an actual historical figure as described in the Bible, and not a mythical one.

Santa Claus is clearly a mythical figure, but he is based a real person who lived in Europe.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

Devotees to a mythical figure who is reported to have ordered his «chosen» people to slaughter every living thing in their march to conquest.

My 7 - year - old is a big believer in any mythical figure that leaves him either money or toys.

While Vibranium is a mythical element, the anticipation surrounding this first solo adventure figures to leave the studio up to its neck in precious metals.

The intimacy of the scenes in Hong Kong allow us to see the humanity in a figure who until now has been somewhat mythical, as Snowden worries about his appearance as he checks his hair in the mirror and anxiously watches the news on the television in his hotel room.

It's hard to watch — and Nolan takes pains to confuse our allegiances in ways that suggest a very British class tension (Borden and ace engineer Cutter (Michael Caine) share a Cockney brogue while Angier, a Yank, is cut from different cloth), a certain nationalism, and, in the figure of Nikolai Tesla (David Bowie) at play mad - scientist - like in a mythical Colorado Springs, a clearly delineated duel between magic and the notion that technology before its time is a kind of witchcraft.

Another reason to see this movie would have to be Man A and Man B, who play the guys that everyone has had to deal with in their lives: the mythical guys in the SAT that are always leaving somewhere, at some speed which you then have to figure out time, distance, or some other variable.

Part concert film, part documentary, part performance art and wholly self - indulgent — Dylan plays «Renaldo» while his wife Sara plays «Clara» — the film is the work of an artist whose ambition, hubris and vanity know no bounds, but as the singer - songwriter in question was already at that point a mythical figure a few years shy of his fortieth birthday, who's to say how much is too much?

In this stirring graphic novel, 11 - year - old Jack tries to bring back the rain by challenging a mythical figure during the stark, dry height of the 1937 Kansas Dust Bowl.

In the Book of Genesis, first come the legends, the story of the Creation, mythical figures such as Adam and Eve and Noah, generations of people who may or may not have lived, and gradually the generations are followed to Abraham, the beginning of documented Hebrew history.

This man becomes a father figure, a mentor, and ultimately a harbinger of doom to the teenage heroine in a story where the mundane becomes mythical, and then the mythical turns tragic.

So that leaves one with two choices: Either pretend there's this mythical writing business where you don't have to be effective at marketing or invest time, money, and expertise in making your book selling business go, or acknowledge that writing is a wonderful passtime, but that selling books is a retail business that requires different skills, and that these days getting read by anyone (readers, agents, publishers) involves you figuring out how to find your audience and gain visibility — AKA marketing and promoting your books.

According to German legend, a nymph who perched on the rock lured sailors to their deaths on the submerged rocks below; a statue of the mythical figure can be seen at St Goarshausen in Germany.

Villa Shinta Dewi, named after one of the main mythical figures from the Ramayana in Indonesian folklore, is now available to Bali holiday makers searching for an outstanding luxury villa.

You can also visit rock art galleries covered in mythical Aboriginal figures, and ride a camel at sunset along the famous endless white sands of Broome's Cable Beach.

Luján invented a plethora of mythical, fanciful creatures and cultural oddities: dogs shaped like pyramids, brilliantly colored low - rider cars inflated like balloons, strutting stick figures, and anthropomorphic rabbits in sunglasses.

The exhibition refers to the mythical place in Norse mythology, a paradise for those slain in battle, as well as to the Walhalla neo-classical monument, built by Ludwig I King of Bavaria in 1842 to honour heroic figures in German history.

The «Cult of the Artist» is the major theme of the current exhibitions of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin): the artist as the core mythical figure of the Western world.

He blended the artistic styles of his adopted countries with those of Africa, creating mythical hybrid figures — combinations of animals, plants and humans — in large - scale paintings.

This exhibition joins three important contemporary artists who have each incorporated reminiscences of Pollock into their works in very different ways: Thomas Demand's work Barn, is a photograph of a paper reconstruction based on the mythical barn used by Pollock as a painting studio; Peter Doig's painting, Daytime Astronomy, takes as its starting point a central figure lying in the grass in an open landscape - the figure is based on a photograph by Hans Namuth of Pollock lying in the same position; while Andreas Gursky's work Untitled VI is a photograph of a Pollock painting hanging in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Maksymowicz's exploration of the relationship between the description of the grave of the mythical goddess Persephone and the real caryatid figures at the Erechtheion in Athens is as still as any sculpture, but its eccentric bounty of ornamentation immediately suggests motion.

Continuing to embrace his Jungian philosophy, Engel incorporates archetypal images of the collective unconscious via the use of mythical, mystical and dreamlike images in his figures and faces.

The head of the mythical figure was wrapped in a bandana, referencing the mammy archetype.

DT: You reference mythical figures such as Hercules in your work.

When David Zwirner — whose gallery has dug deeply in recent years into the works of Minimalist and»60s and»70s West Coast artists — included a Wheeler piece in a show several years ago, Mr. Zwirner said, he considered Mr. Wheeler a «kind of mythical figure.»

The sculptures on show comprise different subject matters, from legendary figures such as Balkis — the queen of Sheba cited in the Holy Quran, the Bible and the Ethiopian Orthodox Kebra Nagast — to studies of dancers, mythical characters, couples, trees and gardens.

The vibrant wall painting in the private dining room is based on this watercolor study depicting a sorceress in a cave, two figures, and a mythical beast.