Sentences with phrase «mythology which»

The artist is aware that many of the references contained in the paintings will be unknown to audiences, unlike classical mythology which has been extensively used in European painting.

His private studies included reading Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and mythology which led him to symbols and figures that expressed «man's primitive fears and motivations no matter in which land or what time,» he later wrote.

Hellblade's story is based on Celtic and Norse mythology which makes a refreshing change from the somewhat overused Greek mythology used in a lot of different media.

It will be based on Norse mythology which will see Kratos helping his son in the journey to adulthood alongside fighting the various enemies encompassed in the game.

Tarzan II wastes very little time before inventing a bit of mythology which did not exist in its predecessor.

A series which began auspiciously as an 12th century open world stealth action game and evolved into a mythology which has covered almost a thousand years of history, branching off into animated features, novels and comic book series.

Mass media were employed to spread among commoners the archaic imperial mythology which in the past had been the serious make - believe of aristocratic and military alone.

Bultmann has no intention of mitigating this scandalon, indeed he seeks to accentuate it, to throw it into even sharper relief by removing every trace of mythology which obscured it.

Furthermore, the new testament was written by people who believed in Greek mythology which can easily be seen by the description of satan, as well as hell itself, which is in fact a Greek mythology creation.

Thus the speculation and the mythology which grew up around the Logos, or rather the insight into the truth which these represent, is taken up and used by revelation as a vehicle, however inadequate, for the event of revelation.

But, thinks Bultmann, that is not mythology in the traditional sense, not the kind of mythology which has become antiquated with the decay of the mythical world view.

(This truth has traditionally been enshrined in the doctrine of the Incarnation, but so often the truth has been affirmed in one sentence and obliterated in the next by that quick flight back into mythology which has repeatedly been the church's undoing.)

Ignorance Overload... If his stated goal is pulling people from the «closet» of faith, that would be asking others to abandon a mythology which gives them comfort.

Her thought is analogous to the Marxist mythology which identifies evil with the bourgeoisie, the past, and identifies good with the proletariat, the future; Miller identifies evil with the parents and good with the children.

It might well appear as though the event of Christ were a relic of mythology which still awaits elimination.

Here indeed is the crux of the matter — have we here a remnant of mythology which still requires restatement?

A religious leader studies their brand of mythology which is not fact but belief.

This excerpt notwithstanding, its a bit of a stretch to call hitler a christian; he had his own mythology which he loosely tied into christianity, but he also destroyed churches and murdered christian leaders who opposed him.

In fact, experience is inchoate even to the subject until it is captured first at the level of mythic expression, much of which is nonverbal, then in mythologies which cast myth into the form of narrative, then in fully conceptualized systems.

There's a major focus on Hinduism and its associated mythologies which are scripts I'm somewhat familiar with from World Religion courses, and it was wonderful to revisit in more detail with Lost Legacy.

Not exact matches

Scandinavian mythology also runs through film, which features trolls, runes and staves churches.

But when it comes to Thanos's motivations, and the mythology of the Infinity Stones (which are called the Infinity Gems in the comic books), The Infinity Gauntlet informs the movie a lot.

The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will make sense and gain voter support.

Why a non-terrestrial culture would name their planet after a figure in ancient Roman mythology is open to question (Romulus and Remus were reared by a she - wolf and went on to found the city of Rome, which also takes its name from Romulus).

The Sumerians were probably the first to write down their beliefs, which were the inspiration for much of later Mesopotamian mythology, religion, and astrology.

You mean that plagiarized retelling of Joseph from the Old Testament, which along with the story of Moses and creation and just about everything else in both books were lifted directly from Egyptian and Sumerian mythology, that New Testament?

This idea of a periodically expanding and contracting universe, which involves a scale of time and space of vast proportions, has arisen not only in modern cosmology, but also in ancient Indian mythology.

Yes, it could be the ultimate» Divine Comedy» in which the potentate is lying, it could be fict i tious mythology, or it could be that which it claims to be: the word of God.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

Christianity and Islam sprang from Judaism, all of which «borrowed» from other cults / religions / mythologies.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, myths which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

I'm a better person when I'm not weighed down by a book of mythology written by relatively ignorant people who lived in a very specific culture which is utterly different than our own.

Then it becomes obvious that the attention is not to be turned to the contemporary mythology in terms of which the real meaning in Jesus» teaching finds its outward expression.

To talk of sin ceases to be mere mythology when the love of God meets man as a power which embraces and sustains him even in his fallen, self - assertive state.

The language of mythology, or, as I myself prefer to say, metaphor, is the language which religion speaks; it can do no other, for religious faith is neither scientific formulae nor philosophical concepts, but a dramatic, poetic, symbolical way of speaking of the deepest realities and our apprehension of them.

By this «in - mythologizing,» there is the possibility of penetration into the reality which the ancient cosmology and the mythology used by the biblical writers was attempting to state in language appropriate to their time.

To this mythology belongs the expectation of the end of the world as occurring in time, the expectation which in the contemporary situation of Jesus is the natural expression of his conviction that even in the present man stands in the crisis of decision, that the present is for him the last hour.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

But we have seen that Israel pioneered a path which was destined to lead to the abandonment of mythology, of the gods, and of the divine unseen world in which they were believed to live.

@holy: just like most religions / mythologies are all based on faith which doesn't require proof.

The continued use of the word «God» with all its associations and images from the old world always constitutes a temptation to turn back in the direction of mythology, and that leads to idolatry, which has always been the church's greatest weakness.

To the mind steeped in the mythology of secularism» and, while some still deny it, the antireligious bias of the major media has by now been documented beyond reasonable doubt» Baptists, Catholics, and others who are assertively Christian represent the religious oppression from which the enlightened are only tenuously liberated.

This same percentage of the population has rejected the notion of witches, sky fairies, santa clause and the flying spaghetti monster, all of which are childish mythologies.

As believers in the literal truth of Genesis, creationists attack any discipline which, in its discovery of truth, exposes the absurdity of the biblical mythology.

A casual reading of such scintillating novels as Ragged Dick and Mark, the Match Boy reveals how Alger created a virtual American mythology of success, the praise of which surely rivaled the hymns sung for Athena in ancient Athens.

After all his ministry was all about helping the poor, and if I'm not mistaken he had some very specific things to say about moneylending which does not bode well for 99.9 % of America, assuming you subscribe to their mythology.

And so, if we moderns are to share in the blessings of which the New Testament speaks, we need the help of someone who understands the language of mythology and can translate it into a language with which the modern world is familiar.

No, the «language» in which Bultmann thinks the New Testament is written is one that most of us have never heard of unless we've read Bultmann: he calls it «mythology.»

If one can recognise the vital role which the mass media are playing in this regard and understand some of its major mythologies, exploration of the process and media mythologies offers a rich resource for theological reflection and the cultural contextualization of faith.