Sentences with phrase «on the symbolism of»

Incidentally, if you want a good primer on the symbolism of Revelation, the book «Because the Time is Near» is a great one to start with.

You can only take it so far based on symbolisms of a goat and a stick with a skinny little man aka gandhi banging boys at night and spinning wheels during daytime.

Others would speculate on the symbolism of baptizing heads or feet.

Elsewhere attention will be focused on the symbolism of the meeting, with Mr Olmert and Syrian counterpart Mr Assad being present in the same room.

Focusing on the symbolism of the Hindu Deity Ganesha and how he links to the overall concept of Brahman in Hinduism.

Geshe Lobsang Tenzin, Founder and Spiritual Director of the Drepung Loseling Monastery and Senior Lecturer at Emory University, will present a lecture on the symbolism of the mandala dedicated to the Green Tara.

In a newly commissioned work, Minerva Cuevas riffs on the symbolism of the Olympics, examining the ways in which Mexico City became a site for both pageantry and protest during the 1968 games.

Their Salt Dinner opens an ironic perspective on the symbolism of death and religion that was also present in other collaborative works in the project In Relation.

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«You also can't get past the symbolism of the fact this is an African - American law - enforcement officer who has a very strong, tough - on - crime high - morals stance.

Critics have charged that the Liberals» emphasis on visible representation is hollow symbolism, but Chagger says it's crucial to have «a government that looks like Canada,» particularly because it empowers younger members of historically under - represented populations.

Pashak of course knows this, and he has a lot riding, so to speak, on his ability to translate that symbolism into real jobs and real profit.

«The biggest single impediment is the politics of [the border wall],» Buffett told the Arizona Daily Star, adding that he hopes his book will shed light on Americans» increasing demand for illegal narcotics as well as the short - sighted symbolism representing Trump's massive wall.

The name change was an obvious one — by then customers could already run a whole host of non-Windows related software, including Linux — but the symbolism tied in perfectly with the Office on iPad announcement: Windows wouldn't be forced onto Microsoft's future.

The bible is not a book to be read one way, but rather a library of books, each to be read differently depending on if it is: historical account, or parables, or narrative, or symbolism or poetry or songs.

Preliminary rituals of Bible - reading (by the Commander to his household) preserve «bits of broken symbolism left over from the time before» (p. 60)-- bits that also appear on police vans (the Winged Eye), in uniforms (Handmaids wear red habits and stiff white blinders), in common speech (their standard farewell is «Under His Eye») and military orders (Guardians of the Faith watch everywhere, outranked by Angel forces).

So again some real work is needed on reinterpretation of the miracles for them to have appropriate Christian symbolism.

A.N.Wilson «went to church on Ascension Day and found that the feast had been abolished — or rather, moved to the following Sunday, thereby destroying the symbolism of 40 days separating the Ascension from the Resurrection.

After Lewis Ford's genetic investigations in The Emergence of Whitehead's Metaphysics, I think there can be little question that Whitehead intended his theory of perception to be independent of his system.3 Ford calls PR II.4.5 - 8 & II.8 the «Original Treatise on Perception» and shows that Symbolism is a revision of it.

How can a book, even the Book, substitute for the clear and concrete symbolism of sacrifice on the part of our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, who became flesh and suffered on the cross for our sake?

Kenneth Burke, «Fact, Inference, and Proof in the Analysis of Literary Symbolism», in Symbols and Values: An Initial Study Tenth Symposium of the Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954), p. 283.

On a topic closer to like what you're doing — about twelve years ago, I ran an in - depth website examining the Christian symbolism in «The Lord of the Rings» films.

As Bellah noted in his initial essay on the subject, civil religion in America seems to function best when it apprehends «transcendent religious reality... as revealed through the experience of the American people»; yet the growing interdependence of America with the world order appears to «necessitate the incorporation of vital international symbolism into our civil religion» (Beyond Belief [Harper & Row, 1970], pp. 179, 186).

A symbol is not a concrete medium for the knowledge of some universal, if not directly knowable reality — though this is the way in which most writers on symbolism from Plato and Plotinus to Urban, Coomaraswamy, and Jung have treated it.

An emphasis on symbolism and discourse offers a way of identifying observable, objective materials for analysis.

She explicates three categories based on the degree of spousification of local goddesses: «First are the untouched, apparently permanently unspousified Devis... The second category consists of Devis who undergo temporary spousification... but whose popular symbolism remains essentially Devi - like... [And) A third and more complex category, that of partial spousification, involves more than minimal manipulation.»

If Jesus is said to have cured blindness, it is a «sign» that he brings spiritual «illumination» (the symbolism is embedded in our language); if he feeds a multitude on an impossibly slender allowance of loaves and fishes, it is again a sign of the nourishment of the soul with the life of Christ himself.

This is because the 9/11 memorial relies not on symbolism but on sheer magnitude for its effect — the size of the footprints, the volume of water pouring into them, and the number of names on the panels — as if magnitude alone could endow it with sublimity.

We saw how deeply rooted the European colonists were in biblical symbolism and how time and again they interpreted their experiences on this continent in terms of biblical archetypes.

Charles Fillmore, a co-founder of Unity, provided detailed instruction on this symbolism that was published in 1931 as The Metaphysical Bible Dictionary, a reference widely used in New Thought.

In the form in which this coming kingdom was eventually delineated, as divine victory and the final consummation of Christ's work on earth in both judgment and mercy, the biblical symbolism of Christ's return becomes meaningful.

You discuss looking at burial rituals to consider new ways to present the symbolism of baptism, but regardless of how a society buries it's dead you will never find a society on earth that isn't familiar with the concept of drowning; thus death by water has a universal power not limited to any culture.

Instead, He took a meal that they were already eating on a regular basis, which was already full of symbolism and significance, and then pointed all of the symbols and meaning to Himself.

The symbolism of sharing common food and drink and thus becoming united on a deep level appears in many cultures.

MM: When you are just looking at a pattern which you are able to prehend, the pattern isn't anywhere out there — as when he talks about the artist seeing a pattern at the beginning of the essay on Symbolism.

From The Symbolism of Evil8 on I have perceived this constitutional infirmity of Descartes's cogito.

But the symbols discover this meaning for us (S 57, emphasis added), 21 a remark that recalls Wittgenstein's famous conclusion of his Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus: «Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is»; except that the how of world - making, if it is ultimately dependent on imaginative interpretations of signs or symbolisms, becomes every bit as mysterious as the fact that it is.

Bellah's argument that greater self - consciousness about religious symbolism tends to be accompanied by a greater emphasis on personal interpretation and a decline in tacit acceptance of official creeds is also supported by a variety of evidence.

And so, I shall devote the first part of this chapter to outlining how Christian symbolism may be situated in terms of an aesthetic cosmology and the second part to shedding light on some aspects of Christian faith in terms of the emergent - hierarchical model.

Whitehead» s view of language — which he himself never develops, not even in the essay on Symbolism — is an almost incidental result of his view of sense - awareness, and of the primacy (once you start from sense - awareness) of the absolutely fundamental process which he calls «the passage of nature.»

These sessions are not about commentating on Whitehead; they are not about process theology; they are not about the part of Whitehead's work that post-dates the essay on symbolism.

Analyzing the symbolism of magic flight in a previous work, we came to the conclusion that it reveals dimly the ideas of «liberty» and of «transcendence,» but that it is chiefly on the level of spiritual activity that the symbolism of flight and of ascension becomes completely intelligible.

8I take PR II.4.5 - 9 («Organisms and Environment») and II.8 («Symbolic Reference») to constitute together Whitehead's original treatise on the two modes of perception, and the first two chapters of Symbolism (S) to be a rewriting of this material suitable for delivery as lectures.

These few general remarks on religious symbolism should, of course, be elaborated and refined.

An essential characteristic of religious symbolism is its multivalence, its capacity to express simultaneously a number of meanings whose continuity is not evident on the plane of immediate experience.

The symbolism of night and darkness — which can be discerned in the cosmogonic myths, in initiation rites, in iconographies portraying nocturnal or subterranean animals — reveals the structural solidarity between precosmic and prenatal darkness on the one hand, and death, rebirth, and initiation on the other.

Whether he is led to limit himself, let us say, to Central Asia or Indonesia, or on the contrary proposes to approach this symbolism in its totality, he can accomplish his task only by taking into consideration all the important variants of the Cosmic Tree.

The aim of such studies is to disregard the socio - religious contexts of the respective institutions of behavior in order to concentrate on the symbolism that they imply.

(It is sufficient to recall the works of Ernst Cassirer, Philosophie der symbolischen Formen (3 vols.; Berlin, 1923 - 29) and his Essay on Man (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944), and Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942).

One could say, then, that all research undertaken on a religious subject implies the study of religious symbolism.

In brief, while the research on symbols in general and religious symbolism in particular by specialists in other disciplines deserves his consideration, the historian of religions is obliged in the final analysis, to approach the subject with his own means of investigation and in his proper perspective.