Sentences with word «prefiguration»

Vivid multidimensional characters become mere prefigurations instead of figures in their own right, and complex narrative situations are reduced to a single theological point.

Luiz Ruscillo FAITH Magazine January - February 2007 Christ the Fulfilment of Wisdom «The Church, as early as apostolic times, and then constantly inher Tradition, has illuminated the unity of the divine plan in the twoTestaments through typology, which discerns in God's works of the OldCovenant prefigurations of what he accomplished in the fullness of timein the person of his incarnate son.»

Those who resisted Kraemer did so mostly by arguing that these religious traditions functioned analogously to the history of Israel in the Old Testament — they provided preparation and expectations for, even prefigurations of, Christ.

Again, he compares the crossing of the sea and the guidance by a pillar of cloud with Christian baptism, and finds prefigurations of the Lord's Supper in the gift of manna and the water from the rock.

More recently, a very exact prefiguration of the collapse of the USSR was offered by two German Marxists, one of them from the West (Hans Magnus Enzensberger) and one from the East (Rudolf Bahro, the accuracy of whose prediction was almost uncanny).

«To see this idea's prefiguration in his scene in Los Angeles around UCLA in the»70s, to see how it bounces back and how it surfaces on the market today, is relevant,» he added.

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

The prefiguration becomes explicit at Job 10:4 - 5, where Job says to God, «Have you eyes of flesh?

The ceremony is not so much a means to this end, as a prefiguration of it.

Was the ten - toed colossus of Daniel's dream a prefiguration of the ten nations of the European Common Market?

The procedure of the various Renaissance translations of the Bible was at certain crucial points to read back Christianity into the Hebrew Bible because the underlying perception of Hebrew Scriptures was supersessionist: the Old Testament was ultimately understood as a prefiguration of the New in which the word of God was at last revealed in its consummated form.

Past events, then, are but the prefiguration of future ones.

«God is present in the way in which his future takes control over the present in real anticipations and prefigurations.

This passage (8:27 - 9:1) begins with a significant parallel to the account of the death of John the Baptist — a story which, whatever its origin may be, is used by Mark as a prefiguration of the death of Jesus (8:27 - 8; 6:14 - 16).

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How were the works of the prefiguration chosen, and what is the thread?

Is it to consider the prefiguration of photography in the use of optics as it related to 1600 - 1800 still life painting of northern Europe?