Sentences with phrase «on biblical images»

Not exact matches

Mimi Haddad of Christians for Biblical Equality does a really fine job unpacking these images in her article on the topic, «Is God Male?»

Because the Bible is the most effective force in history for lifting women to higher levels of respect, dignity, and freedom, we join an historic succession of women whose Christian faith is forged from biblical truth and whose lives are shaped into Christ's image on the anvil of obedience.

Surely, however, the basic affirmation of Christian theism, founded (once we have got behind the images in which often it was phrased) on the biblical witness to the faithfulness and consistency of God and to his unfailing maintenance of the creation in being, is that all things at all times and in all places are present to God, that he is always at work in them, that he constantly energizes through them, that he never ceases to move in the creation towards the accomplishment of his holy will and the revelation of his holy purpose.

To speak specifically on this point, the fact that form and relationship have been restored to the current image of man, both in the new metaphysics and in the sciences of man, enables us to be more understanding in our anthropology of what is being conveyed in such historically biblical notions as the Covenant and the Imago Dei.

The biblical faith, on the other hand, emphasizes both man's creaturehood and man as being made in the image of God.

The continuity between the image of the Bible in the painting and the image of the French novel thus lies in its emphasis on the Christ - figure — even more apparent when one considers the subject of the biblical passage depicted in the painting.

Images abound as one lives in close contact with small children, and as I entered into those relationships I began to reflect seriously on the significance of the biblical images of God as pImages abound as one lives in close contact with small children, and as I entered into those relationships I began to reflect seriously on the significance of the biblical images of God as pimages of God as parent.

But we must not forget, as we track Teilhard on this point, that biblical images of the ultimate harmonization of the created order include the non-human elements of that order as well (cf. Isaiah 11:1 - 9, Rom.

The process - relational model of God as the most extensive exemplification of primordial creativity, with every worldly occasion in its own process of becoming; the process - relational concept of God as the principle of order channeling the world's becoming toward ever richer and more harmonious experience (the primordial nature); and the process - relational concept of God's preservation of every worldly occasion in God's own everlasting becoming (the consequent nature), with each such occasion evaluated and positioned for its greatest possible contribution to the divine life — these perspectives on divine reality which process - relational thought claims to find exemplified in the very nature of things are separately and together congruent with and supportive of the biblical images and events which describe the «already» in inaugurated eschatology.»

On the other hand, if one can bracket the cosmogonical question, the reference beyond the God - world system, and focus upon the journey within the system toward «the maximum attainment of intensity compatible with harmony that is possible under the circumstances of the actual situation» (PS 18:116), then perhaps one will find that the biblical images and the process - relational concepts are richly mutually illuminating after all.

In contrast to the Paulsons» church signs, Fentress» images — on buses, on the signs of interstate - exit truck stops, on telephone poles, on flat rocks, on almost anything — are overwhelmingly biblical, as his title suggests.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

One of my favorite biblical images is hiding under the shelter of his wings, and rising on wings as of eagles.

If because the Biblical images draw on unfamiliar fields of experience, it is accidental and must be met largely by the substitution of familiar images, not (if you like to say so) by demythicization but by remythicization.

The fabric of the Palace of Westminster is peppered with references to our spiritual heritage, not least in the central lobby where biblical images and verses are proudly on display.

The Biblical Passover Story This resource focuses on the Passover story - the Israelites in captivity, the plagues, Moses, the Exodus - in picture format with brief text captions, images that can be cut and pasted onto templates a writing template for the story and a template for drawing / pasting pictures about the Exodus.

If America once borrowed the Biblical image of a city on a hill, this is a small hill indeed.

DiCorcia began East of Eden in 2008 in the wake of American economic crisis, the images draw on biblical references and John Steinbeck's eponymous 1952 book to create metaphorical works that capture the ongoing socio - political uncertainties of life.

Around 2010, I was working on an odd project: trying to paint the biblical days of Creation with no images.