Sentences with phrase «mythical figures of»

Any comparison between President Obama, a deeply human and compassionate man, and the mythical figure of the «devil» reflects badly on those who would even entertain such an obviously misguided idea.

Even gangsters respect and revere Jesus, he's some kind of mythical figure of good, like the Devil, but the opposite.

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.

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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.»

The idea of Jesus arose like so many other religious and mythical figures, particularly Classical Greece, and just as the Greek gods were revered and accepted as real, so too is this Jesus Christ figure.

The irony of this whole big flap about Jesus is that He is just as mythical a figure as Santa Claus, maybe even more so, thus making the whole argument moot.

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.

Sorry, sky wizard is apparently a more technically correct description of the Christian god mythical figure.

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.

Was Jesus of Nazareth just a mythical figure?

Seems ironic that it says «Dump the Myth» about a known historical figure, Jesus of Nazareth, and «Keep the Merry» about an obscure, perhaps mythical Saint Nicholas.

I'd suggest you watch the Zeitgeist and use ur time productively / learning something useful rather than spend hours of your life praying to a mythical figure whom you will never meet or talk to or have any type of dialog with.

«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.

The mythical figure Philosophia - Sapientia, the personification of wisdom, suckled philosophers at her breast and by this way they absorbed wisdom and moral virtue.

When I read the email from Ed Miliband to all party members yesterday afternoon, I thought Left Futures should run a competition with a prize for the first person who could identify «Paul», the possibly mythical figure who it is said has joined the Labour Party because of the «reforms» now backed by Labour's national executive: I -LSB-...]

Almost every night that the constellation Orion is visible, physicist Mark Vagins steps outside to peer at a reddish star at the right shoulder of the mythical figure.

The journey they embark on allows for the introduction of numerous other mythical figures like Medusa (Uma Thurman), Persephone (Rosario Dawson), Aphrodite (Serinda Swan), a Minotaur, and five janitors who morph into the fearsome, multi-headed Hydra.

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.

Set 15 years after the outbreak of the plague that wiped out a significant amount of the human population, the narrative depicts Caesar (Andy Serkis) seeking vengeance for the brutal slaughter of his wife and child at the hands of a mythical figure known as The Colonel (Woody Harrelson).

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?

And now, after all these months of fuss and hysteria and delectable details — the Patent King, his beautiful heiress daughters, the downstairs tenant, the kitchen - maid - cum - tearful - Scarsdale - housewife and her munificent husband, the turret window, the missing gardener, the exact length and serration of the blade used to murder the victim — here we all sit, waving our makeshift fans before our perspiring faces, and it turns out these mythical figures are human after all!

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.

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.

For February we are discussing the iconography of a few historical, religious or mythical figures to help you «read» some of the images you may encounter on the road.

Players soon find themselves as the central figure to the Dawnguard's eradication of all vampires and the vampiric faction's plans to attain a mythical weapon to forever blot out the sun, leaving the world at their mercy.

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.

Centering on 1934 - 1954, Pollock's work moved from mythical, primal figures and scenes, to imagery that combines elements of representation and abstraction, to the «drip» paintings that Pollock is now known for.

Concentrating on the human figure, De Dominicis often referenced mythical and epic leaders like Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king who sought immortality, and Urvashi, the Hindu Veda goddess of beauty.

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.

The exhibition will include some of the artist's most iconic imagery, including portraits of Muhammad Ali and Marilyn Monroe, the artist's self - portrait, still - lifes, and mythical or heroic figures such as Superman.

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.

The Whitney Studio was remodeled between 1918 and 1923 by the decorative artist Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872 — 1930), who used molded plaster to transform the fireplace and ceiling into an exuberant composition of sculpted flames and low relief figures of mythical and real creatures.

The idea of the artist as a genius mythical figure and marketing oneself through that sort of myth creation is a little tired, though.

Since the mid-2000s, Fraleigh has explored power dynamics related to gender, sexuality, and class through depictions of mythical and historical female figures.

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.

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 -LSB-...]

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.

Populated by figures cut and shaped from the patterns, Westmark's paintings create mythical narratives, much like folklore cut from the fabric of human experience.

Through his art he personified the historical imagery, mythical creatures and totemic figures of the past, depicting them with a true modernity of form.