Sentences with phrase «symbolic act»

There are members who refuse to have anything to do with «symbolic acts of reconciliation».

What symbolic act would be meaningful to you personally as an expression of your faith?

No system of ritual uniquely and exclusively qualifies as a vehicle for affirming devotion through symbolic acts.

In the long struggle for human freedom and equality the status quo had to be challenged, and with it the system of symbolic acts which helped to sustain it.

We do not possess a rich and secure tradition of symbolic acts which remind us of the faith we live by and which give body to the meanings we share.

Myths are expressed, not only in symbolic words, but also in symbolic acts — dance, gesture, drama, and formalized cultic acts or rites.

Blair's presentation was based on «Newness», created by symbolic acts in his early days, notably the abandonment of Clause IV, which had little meaning for the public except for the impression of modernity.

Perform meaningful symbolic acts.

Baptism is not a merely symbolic act, but God acts during baptism.

That white churches would send ministers to Mississippi to stand with the «crazy niggers,» however briefly, affirming to the world the soundness of what they were doing, was a powerful symbolic act.

Restitution and reparations are primarily symbolic acts that serve as catalysts for a very different — and much longer — political process.

Roark performed Jesus» single symbolic act of violence when he blew up Cortlandt.

The naming of the dog could be one of the first symbolic acts before taking office.

Einstein's much repeated use of the word «God» was not an indulgence and not a purely symbolic act.

Tapping keys on a keyboard that cause a copy of a signature to appear in a document is arguably not distinct enough from other kinds of keyboard use to make it stand out from the other actions of a person to make it a distinctively symbolic act of assent in the way that a manual signature is distinct from simply typing or writing prose.

The important part is that the signer engaged in a distinctive, individualized symbolic act to authorize the matters set forth in a document by the conventional manual means or a statutorily approved alternative.

Although signing the AOP is a routine administrative process, it can be a deeply symbolic act, affirming the connection between father and child.

With that in mind, you need to carefully orchestrate what symbolic acts you may want to execute to create a lasting impression and convey what you stand for.

Just as the return of Gurindji land was done in a manner distinctive of our country and its history, so the formal and symbolic acts of reconciliation will be found within Australia.

Was it Jesus» intention to establish a new rite to be observed by his followers, or was he, like the Old Testament prophets, trying to say by symbolic acts what he had been telling the disciples and they had been unable to comprehend?

Assumed, Mr. Long and his Free Church see baptism as a mere symbolic act, I would not wonder that he experienced a fall (I don't know, whether he has really experienced a fall, but it is supposed in the article above), because he can not be connected with the true Redeemer.

«There will be many screams on the Russian television with people condemning the strikes, but everybody understands that this is just a symbolic act meant for Trump to look different from Obama,» Vladimir Frolov, a foreign - affairs analyst, told The New York Times.

Casting ballots as pressure voters would not merely be a symbolic act.

Baptism is much more than a symbolic act.

In this prophetic and symbolic act, Ravasi writes, Jesus draws a sharp contrast between a religion of superficiality and self - absorption and a pure faith, centered on his person.

In this respect John Paul II is most effective as a teacher through his symbolic acts and liturgies and least effective when he explicitly sets out to teach.

When aristocracy gives way to some other stable social form, aristocratic manners are replaced by a system of symbolic acts that express the character of the new society.

It was a symbolic act out of obedience, but the actual blood of the lamb had no actual power, it was God who ultimately chose to forgive his faithful followers»

His prophetic word was this symbolic act; the baptism of repentance.

This is especially clear in the symbolic acts of the prophets.

if this is symbolic - then go to your local jail and just do this symbolic act on feet of 10 persons - and then talk to me.

Further, John's preaching of baptism was a prophetic, symbolic act.

The instructions to the twelve in all three Gospels, and to the seventy also in Luke, include the symbolic act of shaking the dust from their feet when they leave a town that will not receive them (Mk 6:1 l; Mt 10:14; Lk 9:5; 10:10 - 11).

I don't think so, and the charge that I am would sound strange coming from the professor of communication whose whole point in this exercise is to be «edgy» and push students to see the power of symbols and symbolic acts.

What is true of the Word is also true of the prophets» symbolic acts.

For each one it would become apparent that the special form of the symbolic acts and objects has a particular power of generating the type of religious awareness appropriate to it.

Like the prophetic understanding of the Word, the symbolic act is also deemed to be efficacious, involving the instrument of the message (the prophet) as a participant in the execution of the dramatized event.