Sentences with phrase «mythological elements»
"Mythological elements" refers to parts, characters, or stories from ancient myths or legends that are often based on ancient beliefs or cultural traditions. These elements can include gods, monsters, heroes, or symbolic objects that are used to illustrate certain ideas, morals, or cultural values. Full definition
There are also mythological elements in the story of Jesus.
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These echo the essence of mythological elements such as the star, bird and semiotic signs.
They have been largely stripped of their original mythological elements, and have become rather like parables.
• Biography • Biographical Sources • Training Under Agostino Tassi • Landscape Painting • Patrons • First Period: Seascapes, Landscapes • Second Period: Greater Emphasis on Mythological Elements • Later Years • Style of Painting • Drawings • Legacy • Paintings by Claude Lorrain
More recently her sculptural forms have broken free from the canvas (burlap, actually) and acquired mythological elements, as in her globular Sphinx (2012), that transcend culture and time.
Rudolph Bultmann, New Testament and Mythology; The Mythological Element in the New Testament and the Problem of Its Re-interpretation.
When we put the Old Testament material in its chronological order and make a comparative study of the way in which YHWH was understood and talked about, we get a fairly clear impression that Israel was steadily shedding the mythological elements from her thinking.
In such instances it would be wrong to set aside the mythological element because of its supposed incompatibility with modern thought.
If he is prepared to take seriously the question of God, he ought not to be burdened with the mythological element in Christianity.
This problem of the interpretation of the mythological elements in the New Testament is not in itself a new one.
Rather, the mythological elements represent a permanent aspect of human thinking.
As we have seen, the mythological element can not be translated either into a scientific world view or into the modern myth.
Thus Bultmann rejects, while HBK accepts and affirms, the mythological elements in the Bible.
Bultmann believes that we can not penetrate to the permanent truths of the New Testament by the reduction or subtraction of the mythological element.
(g) The mythological element in the kerygma is not, we have shown, the importation into the New Testament of ideas from non-Biblical religions, ideas which could be eliminated or superseded by interpreting the underlying understanding of human life.
This has come about because the new world has so decisively abandoned the mythological elements of the old world.
We are not surprised therefore to find that when, from the Exile onwards, the Jewish remnant of Israel was dispersed among foreign cultures which were still predominantly mythological, there was a resurgence of the mythological elements in Judaism.
But in Chapter 8 it was suggested that the abandonment of the mythological elements did not necessarily mean the end of «myth».
It doesn't totally redo the character's roots — obviously the mythological elements stay in place — but it abandons Thor's alter ego of crippled Dr. Donald Blake — and recasts Nurse Jane Foster as a scientist.