Sentences with phrase «own symbolic language»

Candiano Too bad the Bible is so mired in symbolic language.

The icon expresses not only the visible but also the invisible in a symbolic language that belongs to a dynamic tradition.

It tells us that Jesus regarded it as a time of release from normal religious obligations, a time of rejoicing, and since «in the symbolic language of the East the wedding is the symbol of the day of salvation», (J Jeremias, Parables of Jesus [rev. ed., 1963], p. 117) a time of the enjoyment of the fruits of God's decisive activity on man's behalf.

It obviously is not symbolic language — it is an exacting portrait of the creature's appearance.

Yet there is no trace of communication by learned symbolic languages among reptiles, of hair or feathers among amphibians, of the auditory apparatus of land vertebrates, or of legs or wings, among the fish.

The capacities for abstract reasoning, symbolic language, self - and death - awareness set mankind apart from the rest of the biological world.

Indeed, for the new critics poetry is symbolic language, the poem a verbal icon.

Here certainly, as in the case of the other four «last things,» we are talking in highly symbolic language.

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

Book of Mormon people did use ancient symbolic language when describing religiosity, (one of many mountains of evidences that it is an ancient book.)

This makes no sense from the viewpoint of symbolic language, but fits with the social function of presymbolic language which is social cohesion, (84).

A human being (a child, for instance) is first shown a visible picture of a physical object and then the audible or written symbolic language component is linked to it to give comprehension.

Every discipline develops its own symbolic language in terms of which it replaces the total complex situation by a model that represents those variables in which it is interested.

Each of the great religions has also developed its own symbolic language as its interpretation of human existence within the world.

Each symbolic language is a kind of super-language which has to be learned and understood by those who embrace that religion as their way of life.

Each community has its own symbolic language in terms of which it interprets experience, and these symbols have little meaning for the outsider in either case.

Hopewell had pursued his fascination with the congregation through a yearlong examination of a local United Methodist and a local Baptist congregation, and arrived in Indiana that fall with a presentation woven of insights about the two churches drawn from fields as diverse as history, economics, statistics and sociology, with particular emphasis on literary analysis, symbolic language, anthropology and mythology.

The fact that we have to resort to symbolic language and commit ourselves to a relative perspective in our thinking about God is not a defect for which we need to apologize.

Did Jesus use symbolic language, places that existed on earth to describe Hell, yes, he most certainly did.

To see the universe as a whole in this way with the same God working in the universe at large, in the life of Jesus and in our lives was put in highly symbolic language by Paul in his letter to the Colossians about the Cosmic Christ.

But it might not be idle or grotesque to suggest that there is a Buddhist ground for Whitehead's language about God, which is to say a religious ground which is far more meaningful in terms of the symbolic language of Buddhism than it is in that of any other religious tradition, including Christianity.

There may well be a significant parallel to such a cosmic vision in the symbolic language of Tantric Buddhism, but it is difficult to think of a comparable antecedent in the West.

Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem level, and, finally conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations of transcendence.

Munich professor of theology Wolthart Pannenberg, sounding strikingly like a social scientist, has observed that «it is only by symbols and symbolic language that the larger community to which we belong is present in our experiences and activities.

This is symbolic language that conveys actual fact.

But randomness itself offers no answers — natural laws can not produce symbolic language.

To see the universe as a whole in this way, with the same God working in the universe at large, and in the life of Jesus, and in the lives of all of us, was put in highly symbolic language by the apostle Paul in his letter about the «Cosmic Christ» in Colossians 1.

Birds sing, the dance of the bee seems to be a kind of symbolic language, beavers build dams.

Especially in Buddhism does this symbolic language appear highly inaccessible.

This identification occurred not only on the intellectual theological level, but on all levels of the liturgy, the cult, the religious symbolic language, and the mythology.

it was all symbolic language..

Our symbolic language remains in perpetual need of critical examination.

Symbolic language must symbolize something, right?

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.

Ironically, the First Amendment protects symbolic language, even rude gestures such as «the finger.»

«They've reached levels of toolmaking proficiency generally associated with an animal with a big brain, dextrous hands and symbolic language — in other words humans,» says Gavin Hunt, a biologist at the University of Auckland.

«This kind of flexibility is a stepping - stone, perhaps, to symbolic language.»

Apparently, pigs have excellent long - term memories, can comprehend and learn a symbolic language, and live in social communities where they learn from each other.

Along for the ride is physicist Ian Donnelly (Renner) who with Banks, form the core of the American team attempting to understand the unique, symbolic language of the Heptapods.

Virtual manipulatives can make an enormous contribution to sense - making abilities for all students — and have been shown to be of special benefit to students who are high - risk, learning disabled, or with limited English proficiency to understand the symbolic language of math.

The opportunity to develop additional programming as the result of the Tooker loan allows PAFA to pursue a symposium on a group of artists, including Peter Blume, George Tooker, Ivan Albright, and other Americans who used a realist method to invent their own worlds by transforming the symbolic language of Old Master painting into a contemporary idiom.

Painters needed a new symbolic language to express both sides of the present, as with Gottlieb's pictographs and crosses.

Hollowell's paintings represent the body as a landscape through geometric form, vivid color and a symbolic language.

This symbolic language aims at providing a contemplative entry point into the human soul.

Throughout his career, he created a unique and symbolic language aimed at eliciting a subjective, emotional experience within the viewer, as well as a transcendent escape from political and societal realities.

Utilising drawing and craft with a strong formalist aesthetic sensibility, each work's attention to detail translates into a dense visually symbolic language that expresses the infinite possibilities of creation.

Karl Haendel appropriates and recontextualizes images and texts, transforming them into his own symbolic language through drawing.

Clear geometrical and outreaching forms evoke Native - American Indigenous images and echo the symbolic language of comic strips.

Ai and other artists have developed personal symbolic languages that repeat throughout their work.

Throughout a career lasting over fifty years, Yvonne Thomas blended the intuitive freedom of Abstract Expressionism with the symbolic language of form and color.