Sentences with phrase «only symbolic meaning»

Not exact matches

2) Always give preference to a passage's natural meaning when possible; only accept a symbolic meaning when the natural meaning is impossible.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

Not only does this have practical value at a time when family members may not have the time or energy to fix meals but it also has a profound symbolic meaning on the level of feeding and nurturing.

Not only does the completion of creation in six days correlate with and support the religious calendar and Sabbath observance (if the Hebrews had had a five - day work week, the account would have read differently), but also the seventh day of rest employs to the full the symbolic meaning of the number seven as wholeness, plenitude, completion.

Moreover, for the ministers of the Reformed churches «preaching» was a symbolic word; it meant not only public discourse but every action through which the gospel was brought home and men were moved to repent before God and to trust in him.

Symbolic events are instead regarded as merely manifestations of the universal and hence as not having meaning in themselves but only to the extent that they have lost their particularity.

The directness of the relationship is established not only through the mediation of the senses, e.g. the concrete meeting of real living persons, but also through the mediation of the «word,» i.e. the mediation of those technical means and those fields of symbolic communication, such as language, music, art, and ritual, which enable men ever again to enter into relation with that which is over against them.

For in the sense in which he uses the term «literal» in the other passages in which he affirms the same categorial terms to have a literal rather than either a symbolic or an analogical meaning, it means nothing other than «univocal» (although, as we shall see presently, this is not the only sense in which he uses the term «literal»).

Rigorous use of biblical criticism prevents psychologizing and allegorizing, insofar as the attempt is made to recover what Jesus actually taught and how the church in fact interpreted his teaching, and only then to inquire into its psycho - social and symbolic meaning, both for Jesus and the church, and for us today.

It only means that symbolic definiteness is more difficult to achieve with these events.

These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.

But these worlds could reveal their meaning only insofar as one succeeded in deciphering their structures, which were «symbolic.»

We would encounter any revelatory meaning only by first dwelling in and relying upon many particular linguistic and symbolic particulars.

Ignoring their sacrifice would have a powerful symbolic meaning not only for Ukraine, but also for the EU.

He adds that only one other Châtelperronian site has produced personal ornaments, in much smaller numbers, meaning that claims that Neandertals were capable of such symbolic expression rests heavily on the evidence at the Grotte du Renne.

Their intricate, symbolic designs have a personal meaning to the women behind them, only translatable by the artist herself.

Blending close up tracking shots with CGI kites, these sequences are not only out of place, they subvert whatever symbolic meaning the kites had to the story.

Wonder at the cave paintings whose symbolic meaning we can only guess at, but which clearly relay a resonant connection.

That motion — the rising — is intrinsic not only to the experience of Huckaby's piece, but to the layered meanings and symbolic references he hopes to conjure.

While these imaginative works do adhere to certain basic principles, each artist incorporates culturally specific symbolic forms which depict concepts that the community wishes to convey to the spirits and whose meaning is known only within that culture.

The elements that make up his installations are not intended to convey any specific or symbolic meaning, only to nurture an ambiguous setting suspended in time between childhood, the mother, daily life, memory, living spaces, society and the surrounding environment.

The clusters of boxing gloves from Let Her Rave are not only a symbolic critique of patriarchal structures; but also, reflects her own love of the sport and advocacy for women to become more involved in the sport not only as a means of self defense; but also, as a form of physical, emotional, and mental empowerment.

When couples are in gridlock, it is only by uncovering the hidden dreams and symbolic meanings that they can get out of the Chinese Finger Trap.