Sentences with phrase «not allegory»

«Dreams are not allegory», writes Tomasko.

The exhibition proposes that the future available to art is not the futurism of doom or the futurology of gridlock, not an allegory of ecology or technology, but the future of interpretation.

My painting is not an allegory or a story.

Again, we must stress the fact that a parable is a parable and not an allegory.

When it is not allegory it is divinely inspired fiction.

Jesus» parables are not allegories, though a few of them have significant details.

The personal nature of this and other combines is unavoidable: but they are not allegories.

Not exact matches

When it is not historical fact it is allegory.

The Irish poet Seamus Heaney finds in that scene an allegory for poetry: «The drawing of those characters [in the sand] is like poetry, a break with the usual life but not an absconding from it.

I can not wait to hear the justification for how the Twilight series is a dramatic retelling of some heretofore unpopular Biblical allegory.

But very few Christians understand that the Gospels were originally intended as allegory, not biography.)

SS, your stating that,» I do not condemn / throw a fit over how someone lives» is a proof positive that you are either a liar or one who fails to see one's own wordives before one makes such a blasphemous allegory.

They are not written for children, and do not function in any way as allegories.

IF Genesis is allegory and Adam was not really the first human and didn't really eat of any forbidden fruit THEN THERE IS NOTHING TO BUY BACK!!

Allegory or not, passages like Ezekiel 23 certainly present some challenges to our social comfort levels.

Could the story of the Fall be an allegory for the origins of humanity's tendency to sin based not on «original sin» but on the freedom given to humanity in Genesis 1 and the responsibility given in Genesis 1 to govern ourselves and this world as free agents, not puppets or childishly dependent on God?

Complex subjects will always require complex minds and we will have to accept that others may not ever fully understand, making up allegories, parables, metaphors etc. to help them do so.

Allegory, on the other hand, is «inauthentic» speech, i.e. it does not mean what it says, but hides its meaning in symbol.

This is not to say that the novels are allegories, for they are not: the imagery is largely unassigned.

It is also possible to recognize other ways of reading the New Testament: not only midrash, but also typology and allegory are modes of reading which, given their assumptions and rules of discourse, are every bit as disciplined and «true» as that offered by the literalist renderings of the historical - critical method.

All theists decide for themselves which rules to follow and which to ignore or treat as parable or allegory from the OT & NT or there wouldn't be thousands of flavors of xtianity muchless thousands of other religions.

And here I've been looking to the 1978 IBM employee handbook for wisdom since I could read... All that time trying to find my terminal to access the mainframe, and now you tell it wasn't high allegory?

This is not how Caldecott thinks, and certainly not how Tolkien wrote: he made his distaste for this kind of obvious allegory very clear.

If this were the case, then we would have allegory; but it is not the case and what we have is a comparison («To what may this be compared?»)

For example, Genesis» «7 days» of creation isn't 7 days, or 7 ages, but an allegory about human nature as rational (Days 1 & 4 symbolized by the sun, moon, & stars), sensate (Days 2 & 5, symbolized by birds & fish), and physical (symbolized by plants and land).

, the hallmark of a parable, not hidden identity, the hallmark of an allegory.

There are MANY other allegories within it... for example the «Tree of Life» is «the cross,»... But you won't discover any of this unless you read and TRUST that, at some level, it is true.

The parables of Jesus are almost never provided with an application in the tradition; the one we have just discussed is an exception to the rule and the esoteric explanations of the parables in the tradition make the parables allegories and are certainly not from Jesus.

The neglect of allegory in modern times is not surprising.

(9) In contrast to much of Western poetry of sexual mysticism, though, Radha and Krishna are not figures of erotic allegory.

It is true that a person can be ever learning and not know the truth (Plato's allegory) but we also can recognize that the reflective images we perceive are not truth but also that there is truth and an Omega (truth source or cause).

Yep, there are many, many Christians outside the US, but most understand that bible stories from the so - called Old Testament are primarily allegory, not literal truth.

Irenacus did not blunt the hard texts of Scripture by moralisms and allegory, nor did he resort to the naivet6 of Pelagianism, imagining that the problems of sin and death can be overcome by good works.

This allegory stood in the place of what we could not explain..

I'm not denying the literal nature of the bible by proposing some young earth theory, or saying the bible is an allegory, nor am i denying the evidence from science.

If we fail to «read» this allegory, the picture will not mean to us what it meant to Hunt.

If there is allegory here, it cuts both ways: not only must the shepherd resist the allurements of the false woman, but the bride must resist the advances of a charming but ultimately scurrilous suitor.

If we didn't have the tools to understand the cosmos, would Chad or other christians insist that the Genesis account was just a model or allegory, or would they be screaming just as loudly that Genesis was absolutely correct - and they knew that by faith and trust in god's word?

The second story is not strictly a parable, as we think of it, but an allegory containing several meanings.

When reading the history of interpretation of Scripture, one is permitted to smile but not to laugh at allegory, symbolism, typology, and levels of meaning, for these were sincere efforts to hold the Scripture as Scripture while insisting that the congregation deserved some relevant word for its own situation.

The fantasy story must be significant in its own right and not, as in allegory, always subservient to the interpretation — a situation that casts reins and boundaries upon the imagination.

Pat likely doesn't believe that; however, many Christians view the Genesis account as allegory which does not «discredit» the spiritual relevance of the stories.

I've talked with Jews about this matter, and they said the stories in the Torah (Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, etc.) aren't meant to be taken as literal, historical facts, but as allegories and moral tales.

His allegory of the eagles and the vine in the seventeenth chapter not only introduces a new literary type but also implies Isaiah's doctrine of the remnant.

This does not, of course, mean that we should try to make an allegory of the passage or drag out of it a moral that was never intended.

When you asked me which parts had been debunked, and I wasn't allowed to cherry pick lines out of context that were meant to be allegory to support my claim, I in return asked what parts in the bible then are suppsoed to be metaphorical and what are literal, obviously we won't agree because you already know my stance and I know yours, neither stance is going to change, but I'm interested to know from you specifically, what in the bible is proven to be correct?

Lord of the Rings, like Narnia is to personal spiritual experiences, is an obvious (not to all) allegory of spiritual reality as is more literally spoken through the Bible, which also allegorizes spiritual experiences.

@ME II «allegory and parable» have not been what the boys that are making a good living selling the story to the sheepies.

Narnia series were not spefically allegories to the Gospel story.

Yet if life informs art, then one does not have to affirm strict allegory for spiritual elements to show up in one's work.