Sentences with phrase «mythological beings called»
Ms. Woolfalk has created her own society of mythological beings called the Empathics, who not only blend racial and ethnic differences, but also dissolve the line between humans and plants.
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The affirmation that the Word of God has finally become man calls upon man to accept his own humanity and to abandon all mythological pretensions to be an immortal god.
Jesus is also only one of hundreds of mythological figures that pre-date him by thousands of years that were born on Christmas, had twelve apostles, started a ministry at thirty, were killed or crucified at thirty - three, rose from the grave three days later, and ascended into heaven, were called the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the Good Shepherd, etc. with the closest match being Mithras, son of the Sun God Mithra.
after much thinking the calts called the Denisova the Elves (the children o Danu) and the Neanderthal the Fomorii (children of Danu) we were hums (the children of MIll) in their mythological text making the pretanic religion older and with a biblical story of the creation making them closer to the true religion,... what the mahabharata is an older text what the book of Tets has an even older creation
Now it is obvious that we are here in what I have called the realm of mythological discourse, just as much as when there is talk about a «second coming.»
The four opening words perhaps should not be separated from the rest of Paul's sentence, but if they are so separated the phrase «God was in Christ,» still more God was in the historical Jesus,» is not a mythological statement: it corresponds to what I earlier called ontological reality.
They are related in that the mythological world view of ancient man was expressed in the form of stories or myths, but it shall be argued later that there is something more permanently valid in «myth» than in what has been here called the «mythological».
Perhaps our thinking in this perplexing area may be somewhat clarified if a distinction is made between what may be called the historical, the ontological, and the mythological.
(Professor Gilkey has listed five marks of the death of God tradition, and they should perhaps be set down: (1) the problematic character of God and of man's relation to him today, (2) the acceptance of the secular world as normative intellectually and ethically good, (3) the restriction of theological statements to what one can actually affirm oneself, and with this the rejection of certain traditional ideas of tradition and authority, (4) the centrality of Jesus as one who calls us into the world to serve him there, (5) uneasiness with mythological, super-historical, eschatological, supernatural entities or categories.
Whereas the ancient myth bore all the marks of the mythological world to which it was orientated, the myth which the man of faith in the new world finds meaningful will be orientated to the human situation as contemporary man understands it, and it could even be called a «demythologized myth» or «historically - grounded myth».
Perhaps most overwhelming in I See Satan Fall Like Lightning is Girard's attack on what he once called «the inability of the greatest minds in the modern world to grasp the difference between the Christian crib at Christmastime and the bestial monstrosities of mythological births.»
In the synoptic tradition, on the other hand, although the same mythological overlay and parenetic application is there, the fact remains that we do have what we would call historical material and historicizing tendencies in a way we do not have elsewhere in the New Testament.
If I do believe in «the spirit of Christ»... that is, the meaning and significance of Christ (I'm not even insisting I mean the mythological symbol we call Christ)... then this is what I'm trying to portray.
My art in itself is a style of c in a style I like to call mythological automatic My art is captured in phraseological terms much the undead photographer
On the opposite wall is a large - scale painting by Sterling Ruby — another artist with an almost mythological persona — incorporating scraps of found fabric, and perched on a plinth, under a museum - style vitrine is a work by Cyprien Gaillard called Untitled (Tooth), 2013: literally one tooth from the giant maw of a mechanical digger, transformed by this transposition into a somehow hieratic little figure.