Sentences with phrase «revelatory images»

In the surrender of faith we allow ourselves and our consciousness to be shaped by a set of revelatory images and stories.

We shall suggest that the revelatory image illuminates not only history and human community.

We naturally look for some revelatory image that will illuminate reality and make it intelligible.

In other words, the revelatory image of a self - limiting, self - giving, self - emptying God fosters a continually widening coherence in our understanding of reality and mystery.

On the other hand, by viewing the plurality of faiths from the point of view of our central revelatory image, that of God's self - emptying love, we may effectively confront the temptation to idolatry.

Rather, as our best theologians in this century have increasingly confessed, the roots of much serious atheism can be found in long - revered ideas of God that have not yet been shaped either by the promissory aspects of revelation (especially in the case of the kind of atheism associated with Marx) or by the revelatory image of the kenotic God (especially in the case of the atheism associated with existentialism).

The revelatory image allows us to accept without embarrassment our imperfections and our failures to fulfill all the criteria of worth that our familial, academic, social, or religious environments expect of us.

The revelatory image of a self - emptying God explains not only the fact of reality's mysterious openness but also why mystery presents itself to us in the mode of a promising future.

But the revelatory image of a self - emptying absolute may just be the revelatory scandal which, if accepted in faith, can make all else intelligible.

Hence, by its challenge to our favored images of God, especially those that present God as one whose favor we must win by our religious or ethical performances, the subversive, revelatory image of a God who participates in our own shame pulls the rug out from under a society that seeks by way of religion to legitimate its exclusivism.

The revelatory image of a self - emptying God explains not only the fact of reality's mysterious openness, as we noted at the end of Chapter 3, but also why mystery presents itself to us in the mode of a promising future.

Not exact matches

Some portray the apostolic witnesses less as revelatory witnesses to God's mercy than as oppressive promulgators of abusive images of God.

Jesus» repertoire of images of the kingdom, his habit of presenting what we can hope for in the idiom of parables of God's reign, is an exceptional illustration of these four revelatory aspects of religion.

Indeed, in the light of this image, we would be surprised if there were not a rich variety of revelatory religious paths.

If our image of Christ functions protectively to inhibit such integration of novelty, then it is no longer functioning in a revelatory manner.

Such images can hardly be revelatory to us until we have learned tacitly to indwell many of the cultural particulars that the Buddhist abides in spontaneously.

Once again, though, we must ask ourselves how we know when our visions are simply projections of childish wishing, rather than images more truly revelatory of mystery.

Clarity is revelatory, particularly in the famous overhead image of a vast, looming church organ.

The revelatory experience once felt in the darkroom is echoed throughout the show, as Thomas returns to image making, joined by the audience, without which his works would not be complete.

The reaction of the unseen, breathless, and elated MC at the end of Bruce Conner's moving - image installation Three Screen Ray, 2006, is likely to be the exclamation of many a visitor exiting «Bruce Conner: It's All True,» the revelatory retrospective of some 250 works currently installed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (through...

In 1999 the Ubu Gallery in Manhattan organized a revelatory exhibition of his so - called Prose Poems from the mid-1960s — large, colorful word - strewn collages that combined elements of Concrete poetry and Pop Art and presaged image - text artists like Barbara Kruger.

Her images are both self - revelatory and speak to the collective unconscious in their evocation of archetypal forms.

Nancy used overtly sexual images, images of women at war, victims of violence, women of resistance, women exercising and at play, images of motherhood, tenderness, and humour in ways that were often transgressive and revelatory.

The color is as blunt as the marking, and equally as revelatory since working into the entire surface wet at once, over the dry layer means she gives herself one chance to get the image she's after.