Sentences with phrase «other than metaphor»

While ordinary theologians can not conceive that ontological truth would be accessible in forms other than metaphor, myth and symbol, scientist - theologians tend to be dissatisfied with anything less than relatively straightforward concepts that can claim truth.

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If one accepts that metaphors (and all language about God) are principally adverbial, having to do with how we relate to God rather than defining the nature of God, then no metaphors or models can be reified, petrified, or expanded so as to exclude all others.

Tell you what, you come find me when you use that Bible to actually make a testable prediction in advance, rather than waiting for other people to do all the hard work and then glumming onto it and trying to back - wedge it into your va gue metaphors.

He does not «go to heaven» or to anywhere else other than the metaphorical abode of the dead, being the rhetorical device used to describe death under the departure metaphor.

Metaphors refer to something other than themselves to the Kingdom of God, which, itself is a symbol.

Here I am: with a real breathing metaphor of contentment and peace, with a milk - drunk, blissed - out, flour - sack of a baby, thick with goodness, and something breaks through the veil between earth and heaven, I understand down in my marrow and now I can't think of God as anything other than Abba.

The 62nd chapter of Isaiah begins with a wedding metaphor; the vindication of the divine will mean that Judah is no longer forsaken or desolate, for Judah will be the bride of none other than the Holy One.

In other words, an elucidation of perception may get much further by using the metaphor of sign than by traditional means based on the idea of causality.

In fact, few places in Scripture speak to the Christian conversion experience through any method other than relational metaphor.

I just did not believe any of what I read or had read to me anymore than I believed any other book of fiction with so many metaphors, parables and supernatural BS.

If for no other reason than accessable metaphors, we are lucky to be Suns» fans.

because while some of it very is informative, he tangents off into incoherent metaphors about 10,000 year clocks or physicists that have nothing to do with anything other than to give him a word count.

The governor went into a long metaphor about how buying one of his daughters a computer for Christmas had caused tension in his household, but it didn't mean he loved any of his children more than the others.

[It's dangerous to] make modern metaphors but if you look at colonial metaphors, when European travelers went to the Americas and to Australia, the gene flow tended to be more into the native groups than the other way around.

The premise involves a shapeshifting monster that stalks its targets until they have sex, passing on the curse to someone else, and though a generation ago, this would seem like a fairly clear - cut AIDS metaphor, Mitchell (The Myth Of The American Sleepover) makes it at once more complicated (for instance, after killing a target, the titular It begins stalking the previous one again) and more primal, a locus for all kinds of sexual and social fears that horror movies tend to express more clearly than any other genre.

More hilarious metaphors and expressions have been created to describe sexual acts and functions than perhaps any other aspect of human society.

Other than the shared title word, Telling the Bees by Peggy Hesketh (Putnam) sounds like it could not be more different from the O'Donnell story (for one, bees are not just a metaphor — they figure in the book's plot).

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains that, «metaphor has attracted more philosophical interest and provoked more philosophical controversy than any of the other traditionally recognized figures of speech.

Following his morning keynote, Doctorow spoke to GoodEReader about one of the metaphors he used in his presentation, that of the dandelion, a flower that doesn't concern itself with how it reproduces other than to make sure that dandelions grow out of every sidewalk crack.

Where we once might have read that vampiric corporatism as a metaphor for natural resources like oil, it's hard today to see it as anything other than the radical changes that we are seeing in the global climate.

Much like other indie horror titles, Little Nightmares is about showing rather than telling, and every last metaphor in the narrative can be picked apart if you take the time the analyse its symbolism.

Although it is not known if she had knowledge of the spatial theories of Morris and André, she would have known about their work, which is in an area her own work delves that is related to notions of visual metaphor incorporating conscious states other than the immediate present — Morris» mental space.

It is a certain kind of groundedness on the one hand, and on the other hand — I won't call it a romantic sensibility — but a willingness to evoke rather than to state, a willingness to use the variable memories of an audience to infuse a given artist's metaphor with content beyond its literal description.

Untitled (soot on glass)(1990) stands away from the wall as if there should be something other than a mere shadow behind it, perhaps a metaphor for all history.

There are no symbols, metaphors or hidden meanings (other than the many allusions to painters he appreciated, from Barnett Newman to Munch or Philip Guston to Matisse), just the manifestation of freedom, grace, simplicity and boldness.

But in their catalogue essays, the show's organizers — Ann Eden Gibson, associate professor in the department of art at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Jorge Daniel Veneciano, curator of exhibitions at the Studio Museum — present labored arguments to the effect that even in paintings other than the «Klansmen» compositions, black served Lewis as a metaphor for the African - American experience, allowing him to make political and social references without specifics.

Providing an apt metaphor for the long shadow cast by Sun Ra and others, the exhibition features more than sixty works of art, including ten new commissions, charting the evolution of Afrofuturist tendencies by an international selection of established and emerging practitioners.

I don't want to sound horribly cynical here — but, after so many comments I'm not sure that is really possible — but wouldn't it be easier and better value for your readers if you were to say what * you * think rather than reheating other people's metaphors?

Other than that lovely pair of sporting metaphors, there's not any more to say about the time differences.