Sentences with phrase «mythological beings with»

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Most of the paintings were narratives with mythological themes, illustrating stories from hindu epics and literature.

I can only hope to face the end with similar dignity and not invoke the help of a mythological being

If people find comfort in looking at a mock execution device, believed to represent the torture and death of their mythological savior, that's fine with me.

The issue is dramatized in an ancient psalm which is heavy with mythological imagery:

He moved beyond a recognition of the validity of much of Bultmann's position, to argue that since something can be known about the historical Jesus, we must concern ourselves with working it Out, if we do not wish ultimately to find ourselves committed to a mythological Lord.

But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.

Furthermore, the gospel inevitably has been associated with mythological ways of stating it which, while entirely appropriate to the times when the association was made, are no longer appropriate today.

Sky is associated with the wealth of mythological and religious significance.»

Anywhere in the world, if one goes back far enough, one comes upon a worldview that can be described quite adequately as mythological» that is, one comes upon a world that is permeated with sacred, divine forces.

Physics - lite @ CN77 & Andrew Andrew's Quote «It's not all that pointless, see while you would never be convinced that your bronze age mythological beliefs about the creation of the universe are wrong, since I can rebut (with peer reviewed journal articles no less) any claim you make, in rather stunning detail, those who are not so well versed on the subject who read the dialogue could be swayed to the side of science.

In such instances it would be wrong to set aside the mythological element because of its supposed incompatibility with modern thought.

Moreover, the faith that YHWH was the Lord of history meant that in contrast with the mythological cultures, where the gods were little interested in human affairs, the spotlight of divine concern was pointed directly to the human scene.

Girard's primary example of such hypocrisy was the mythological (according to his elaboration of myth as the perpetrator's justifications for violence) notion of Mutual Assured Destruction of the Cold War arms race that was contemporary with the writing of his book in the late 1970s.

This does not mean outright rejection; it has to do with the attempt to penetrate through the symbolic (and mythological) language which religion inevitably uses to the basic reality that is there being affirmed.

Though I am a relative newcomer in the city, I've already begun to sympathize with the mythological reverence the New York - born author lavishes on her hometown.

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

On the other hand, one can not but notice the manner in which these themes and mythological characters are utilized with a view toward reinterpreting the collective identity of Paraiyars in an affirmative way.

We can not share in this mythological picture, continues Bultmann, because we live and think within «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» and within «the understanding man has of himself in accordance with which he understands himself to be a closed inner unity that does not stand open to the incursion of supernatural powers.

On the other hand, Botha is attempting to rule South Africa and introduce meaningful change with pragmatic judgments devoid of mythological legitimations.

Reason would dictate that if a celebration was based upon an occurrence, whether actual or mythological, redefinition of that celebration is logically pointless; a steak knife is a steak knife; has been a steak knife, and will always be a steak knife (at least for about 500 — 750 years); the very same with Christmas.

Here, even more than in Hosea, the mythological interest in resurrection is absent, for the scene being described by Ezekiel has nothing to do with an unseen supernatural world, but refers to a future event in the sphere of human history to which Ezekiel points his people forward in hope and confidence.

If he is prepared to take seriously the question of God, he ought not to be burdened with the mythological element in Christianity.

Surely you are confounding the stumbling - block of the mythological language with the real skandalon of the cross, and the exegetical problem with that of faith.

(We may add that if «mythological» means whatever can not be reconciled with the modern scientific view of the world with its closed system of cause and effect, then an eschatological act of God is either no act at all or else it is mythical in the above sense of that word.)

I must now confess — and here perhaps the gulf between us is most obvious — that the language of personal relationship with Christ is just as mythological as the other imagery you favor; that is, unless it is strictly conceived on the lines of John 14: 9 or of Herrmann's «God is in Christ».

When we ask whether this mythological language can be retained or translated into non-mythological language, we are inevitably confronted with the further question as to the meaning of the mythological language in this particular instance.

What Bultmann means is that the difference between the mythological language of the New Testament and ecclesiastical dogma on the one hand and his own interpretation on the other is that the former presents us with a «miraculous, supernatural event», whereas the right interpretation is one which suggests «an historical event wrought out in time and space».

Thirdly, the mythological world was divided into two parts, the unseen world of the gods, often associated with the sky above, and the visible tangible world to which men were confined.

It is just more than coincidence that this mythological Jesus shares so many traits with other «messiah» types in other religions throughout history.

And just as it is impossible to interpret the fact of Christ as a mythological inference from Old Testament prophecy, so also the resurrection can not be regarded as a mythological inference from an encounter with Christ.

No good purpose is served by concealing this fact, as is often done today when things that are really incompatible are combined by the following type of over-simplified reasoning: that whatever in early Christian teaching appears to us irreconcilable with the immortality of the soul, viz. the resurrection of the body, is not an essential affirmation for the first Christians but simply an accommodation to the mythological expressions of the thought of their time, and that the heart of the matter is the immortality of the soul.

Nothing wrong with staying with the facts ma'am just the facts not the mythological comic book dreams which are not a true foundation for wisdom or logic.

It is instructive to compare this project with that of Bultmann who in Ricoeur's view does not take the expressive power of scriptural language, with all its mythological content, seriously.

In this way we become attentive to the fact that this «coming» is expressed in a mythological representation of the universe, with a top and a bottom, a heaven and an earth, and celestial beings coming from up there to down here and returning from down here to up there.

According to this interpretation he is the Son of God in another, very different, and as we should say more mythological sense: a Son who was with God and who was sent into the world, who, as the Nicene Creed says, «came down from heaven and was incarnate... and was made man».

Funny born again Christians would like Narnia, the irony really is quite huge, it may not have the same magic flinging as Harry Potter but it's loaded with magical mythological creatures.

(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.

The mythological view of the world has gone, and with it went the possibility of speaking seriously of a Heilsgeschichte: a historical «drama of salvation,» in which God is said to have acted at a certain time in this world to change the state of human affairs.

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.

Thus in contrast with the ancient mythological cultures and with holy scripture outside the Judeo - Christian stream, most of the Old Testament either consists of historical material, or is expressed with due regard to the historical nature of human life.

And here biblical thought, despite its mythological idiom and its scientific inaccuracy, was much more in accordance with common sense, as well as with the actual situation at the time of death.

The Waldorf lower school curriculum is alive with fairy tales and fables, mythological sagas, and stirring biographies of historical figures.

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Io may be one of the slightest names in the book, but there aren't many two - letter names with as much substance as this Greek mythological example.

Nessa and is often added to lists like Mythological Baby Names for Girls and discussed in our forums with posts like «Girls Makeover - Two Middles».

Quilo is a boy's name and comes from the Greek mythological story of the Trojan War, in which he was the hero filled with «manly beauty and valor.»

With these presidential initiatives, it is hoped that the bloodbath in the Benue valley will subside and life return to normalcy again, and the citizens saved the reality and trauma of the mythological grief and tears.

Carbon with an organic - like signature has been discovered sealed within a crystal that formed 4.1 billion years ago, during a period of Earth's history named after Hades, the mythological Greek god of the underworld.

Keeping with tradition, newly discovered elements can be named after: (a) a mythological concept or character (including an astronomical object), (b) a mineral or similar substance, (c) a place, or geographical region, (d) a property of the element, or (e) a scientist.