Sentences with phrase «poetic interpretations]»

The «poetic edifice» of Paradise Lost is finally not so different from the infernally created Pandaemonium: «The Satan who first lifts himself... off the burning lake darkly mirrors his literary creator.»

Canadian folk - rocker Bruce Cockburn has also gained notoriety for shimmering poetic forays into both geopolitics (in the form of travelogue songs) and spirituality (celebrating nature and inner beauty in its multitudinous forms).

But a vital source of power in the image — whether visual or poetic — is its ability to work beyond the scope of the word: to evoke, suggest, allude to or embody aspects of experience that elude discursive reasoning.

As far back as the gathering of the Targum, an interpretive paraphrase of the Old Testament in Aramaic, the Song of Solomon was described as a poetic history of God's redeeming love for his people from the time of the Exodus down through the Exile and restoration.

Indeed, the epic is «very much about its own writing,» a writing that at every moment threatens to turn into what it purports to condemn: «Milton must summon the devils into poetic being in order to warn a reader... but he runs the risk of fascinating the reader with that very poetic creation.»

And in Poetic Justice she seeks to expand her range: from a primary interest in the personal dimensions of ethics to the social and political implications of the philosophical - literary enterprise.

But this fusion of horizons can take place not by a poetic divination into the language of the text, nor by a mystical identification with the preconceptual experience of the author of the text, but by the breaking in of the Word of God from the Beyond into our limited horizons and the remolding of them, in some cases even the overthrowing of them.

Now there are a number of important footnotes to Aristotle, but I simply wish to draw attention to the point of culmination of the tradition, that period bridging the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that saw the production of the grand synthesis of the Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, as well as its poetic embodiment in The Divine Comedy of Dante.

To borrow that hackneyed but poetic phrase from Marx, all that is solid melts into air.

In the New Testament, the poetic prose of the Greeks and the parallelism and accentuated rhythms of the Jews are apparent.

To the dedicated removal of every vestige of poetic beauty from the language of the liturgy... into prose resembling that of a mail - order catalogue.

A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post / protestant, liberal / conservative, mystical / poetic, biblical, charismatic / contemplative,... anabaptist / anglican, metho (emergentYS) by Brian McLaren — Brian McLaren has, obviously, been influential in my life through his work and writings.

Only on occasion did Paul's imagination rise to flights of paradox and poetic forms.

So, it would seem there are at least two parallel streams at work in the new translation, one literal and one poetic.

But it need not be so, if we begin to see how the imagination can create models and metaphors, can use logically odd qualifiers, can present ideas in poetic - simple language, so that new onlooks may occur.

The only degree of development it contains is in the poetic excellence of the thought and its expression.

Within the discipline of this poetic convention, virtually impossible to reflect in translation, the theme of praise for God's mighty acts unfolds.

In the poetic structure of the psalm of praise, there is a different kind of order.

As we will see in chapter 6, this use of what Canon Drink - water calls «poetic - simple» language is significant for the communication of religious faith.

This suggests that the conditions of social learning must be such that the situation is suitable for the logically odd, poetic use of and exchange of stories to illuminate the situation.

Many of their stories can be found in The Poetic Edda.

And whether that be a powerful lawyer (if you can afford one), a body or institution or ultimately, God, a «higher power» or universal poetic justice — whatever you want to call it then the only thing that can be done is leave it to that power.

The gospel account looms behind every scene in the lengthy midsection of the film, an unfilmable story, written in poetic, metaphorical, passionate, committed language.

David's language in Psalm 63:1 is not only poetic, but desperate.

A marble stele nine feet tall with a brief poetic inscription and two children carved in relief is enriched with a lion's head spout and basin.

3 Clearly we are in touch with a mind of a poetic and imaginative cast.

Of course it is; and of course all human language about God falls short of telling what he is — the language of philosophical abstraction no less than the poetic image.

There is little question that the most distinguished poetic voice of our time...

And in Revelation, the New Testament book which in highly imaginative and poetic language portrays the heavenly city, we find once again that worship is the dominant theme.

Caird sees the vividness of the parable in the juxtaposition of the familiar images along with the unfamiliar.116 Crossan speaks of metaphor as poetic.

The Swedish Academy recognized Dylan «for having created new poetic expressions...

Nonetheless, as Frege writes to Husserl, it is sufficient if poetic strings or works of art have a sense, but for scientific work, i.e., to be useful, we must not lack a reference.

Throughout the history of the church, risky anthropomorphisms in Christian discourse were excused by appeal to the accommodated, analogical, symbolic or poetic form of the scriptural revelation.

The kind of reflection that was involved in articulating this understanding of Israel's relation to its God was at much the same level of sophistication as that displayed by Homer in his poetic objectification, aestheticizing, and ordering of the gods.

Here she had the freedom to read, amass a library, study science and perfect her musical and poetic talents.

This type of psychosis is explained by Buber in poetic terms in I and Thou.

Nowhere does it discuss the mysterious but willful destruction of the mighty poetic force of the Bible and Prayer Book, which has turned the thunder and trumpets of Anglican worship into a series of squeaks and squawks, accompanied by tambourines and guitars.

In this book, then, and especially in the earlier part, I have sometimes resorted to a slight verbal elaboration, either because there was no alternative if one was to write English at all, or because two words seemed necessary to convey the full «poetic» content of one word in the French, or again because a verbal elaboration seemed more likely to communicate the colour (and colour is of the essence of vision) of the original.

Even that is phrased in a poetic and symbolic way, but its point is clear.

I believe Genesis 1 is more poetic - theological, while Genesis 2 - 4 is more historic - theological.

Perhaps in another post I'll go into a set of three incredible sermons presented at the heart of it, one of which is nothing less than Ellison's mytho - poetic history of the American Negro, with Ezekiel's «valley of the dry bones» passage playing a central role.

Hadewijch was a poetic mystic.

I'm very surprised by the above response to what I thought and felt was an amazing piece of poetic prose.

According to the subtitle of A Generous Orthodoxy, he himself is a «missional + evangelical + post / protestant + liberal / conservative + mystical / poetic + biblical + charismatic / contemplative + fundamentalist / calvinist + anabaptist / anglican + methodist + catholic + green + incarnational + depressed - yet - hopeful + emergent + unfinished CHRISTIAN.»

But whereas in translating scientific prose the aim is simply to reproduce with complete accuracy the author's statements, in translating «poetic» language the primary aim is not just to reproduce statements about reality but, as far as may be, to make the same communication of reality — which will mean trying to reproduce something of the author's «tone of voice», something of the mood and colour of tie original.

With his poetic gifts he charmed his hearers.

The beautiful joyousness of their polytheism is only a poetic modern fiction.

When people, thought they had discovered such details in Genesis, they had not recognized its genus litterarium, its literary category and character, namely that of historical aetiology expressed in a popular and poetic form.

As the poetic parallelism makes clear, the character of Yahweh's compassion is the hesed character — the steady, enduring strength of fidelity, devotion, and commitment which partakes of the quality of grace precisely because it is more than the convention of covenant can appropriately command, because it is greater than the relationship which first produced it, and because it is able, in breaking out of the relationship, to recreate the very relationship in transformed dimensions.

That is not to say that poetic language is nebulous, vague, uncertain: on the contrary, the cutting edge of great poetry is sharper and digs deeper than that of any prose.