Sentences with phrase «religious narratives»

The folks living when the christian story was forming were more aware than we are of the similarities to other religious narratives.

Of course, the great narrative of science shares with the great religious narratives the idea that there is order to the universe, which is a fundamental assumption of all important narratives.

Works produced for her exhibition at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center are influenced by religious narratives of conception, communion, and death.

Pierre's paintings are informed by religious narratives from her upbringing, and are laced with spiritual references and personal mythology.

There's still a leap of faith involved — though it's one that excludes the grand religious narratives, as well as the wondrous examples of human contemplation, like Thomas Merton and the Buddha, or connoisseurship, like Nabokov with his butterflies.

the truth of biblical religion is pure and not the problem»... I envy yr faith... human artifacts, especially religious narratives are rarely as pure as you might suggest... at best, I think the scriptures shld be a means and not an end, so in that sense need not be pure... they are merely signposts along the way... ultimately, we are the judges of what is pure or impure, higher or lower, right or wrong

Some day, Wilson hopes, the «evolutionary epic» will replace the biblical mythology as our core religious narrative.

(CNN)- People visit Jerusalem for the rich history, interwoven religious narratives and crumbling holy walls.

A solo exhibition that is at once immersive and intricate, On the Wall: Nadia Haji Omar simultaneously alludes to the uniquely complex cultural histories of Sigiriya as a built and natural environment replete with overlapping religious narratives, artistic styles, and the calligraphic traditions of the Sinhalese and Tamil languages, among others.

By immersing himself in it both physically (as he did in I Was Not Waving But Drowning, 2005) and metaphorically, he invokes environmental, sociological, political, and even religious narratives that have long accompanied the life - giving substance.

The Council of Nicea was formed to rewrite and narrowly define the religious narrative you follow so blindly.

If you are, like the lady minister, claiming only the metaphorical value of your religious narrative, then turn the other cheek.

But to address your comment, all Christians embrace a religious narrative based on the Bible.

As an atheist I don't buy into any of the religious narratives, but I recognize they can motivate people to do good things they'd never do on their own.

Gays have been speaking of their realities for hundreds of years, but it goes against our religious narrative and we absolutely refuse to listen much less try to empathize.

The majesty and complexity of the project entranced the press, touching on myth and religious narrative, Rebecca Reider wrote.

The story begins during Moses's early adulthood, and Scott has managed to shoehorn the religious narrative into his «Gladiator» template.

Retelling the crusades with 200 - year old marionettes in Cabaret Crusades (2010), organizing a heavy metal concert in rural Egypt, and using child actors to describe ancient poetic myths — Shawky continually examines and re-contextualizes the pillars of historical and religious narrative.

The genre includes depictions of moments in religious narratives, above all the Life of Christ, as well as narrative scenes from mythology, and also allegorical scenes.

«Some artists, like Kudzanai Chiurai and Tracey Rose, are quite literally refiguring history by inserting Afro - centric heroes into the religious narratives they have inherited from the West.

There's certainly as much need for skepticism about (at least) the «C» in CAGW (the major narrative component), as there is for say all religious narratives, or the social cross-coalition of Eugenics and anti-semitism in 1930s Germany, or Lynsenkoism (a cultural component of Stalinism).