Sentences with phrase «symbolic acts of»

These breaches in the construct of Soleimani's characters serves to expose the bodies of those in power to symbolic acts of violence as well as subvert their traditional displays of masculinity and authority; at the same time, it reveals the bodies of those that might suffer at the hands of men in power as they accrue wealth through brutal acts of exploitation against humanity and the earth.

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

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

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).

Students will show their displeasure at cuts and tuition fees in a symbolic act of protest later today, as demonstrators head to Conservative offices in North London.

Look, I understand wanting to show up and support, but white people need to understand that this symbolic act of raising your hands in a position of surrender is meant to illustrate how black people are violently targeted by police because of their race.

It is a common practice for those celebrating Vesak Day to release animals into the wild as a symbolic act of liberation.

In 1974, Joseph Beuys did a performance called I Love America, and America Loves Me where he lived in a gallery with a wild coyote for seven days as a symbolic act of reconciliation with nature.

In a symbolic act of rebellion and destruction, Bourgeois's 1974 installation Destruction of the Father both signals a clear distancing of herself from her biological father, and possibly an act of closure for the artist in regards to this initial betrayal.

The planting of the saplings was a symbolic act of protecting and nurturing nature, as well as recognizing the role of water in sustaining all life.

The Prime Minister continued his stance on an official apology throughout the community debate leading up to Sorry Day on 26 May, 1998, and maintained the distinction between addressing concrete issues such as health and housing and the symbolic act of apologising.

Not exact matches

According to a former cabinet minister who spoke on condition of anonymity, the ministers acted as a symbolic «rubber stamp» — the cabinet has no actual approval power — and accepted the plans presented to them by the military.

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.

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.

Gregory thought that this was an exemplary statement of the way to protest the abuse of coercive authority — not by overt, destructive, risk - laden rebellion, but by a symbolic demonstrative act revealing the vulnerable moral credibility of abused power.

Far from being an act of rebellion or an open attempt outwardly to overthrow abused power, it was a quiet, constrained, symbolic act that ironically caught the person of highest power in the midst of a most ordinary human activity.

16:20 - 22) That the Christian faith could make these primitive acts symbolic of the most holy of all relationships, the death of Christ for our redemption, is evidence of the spiritual vitality of our religion.

In Romans 14 speaking about symbolic acts, Paul makes the remarkable statement that nothing is unclean of itself, only if one thinks it is unclean, is it unclean.

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

It is sacramental not only because physical contact is employed to express and increase human love but also because the human relationship in love is symbolic of, an expressive medium for, and a representation and effectual sign that enables a deep relationship with God, for God is Love and acts ever lovingly in and toward humanity.

By reserving the act of sexual union solely for procreation, intercourse gains extraordinary symbolic power.

The act of deception requires self - awareness, the ability to inhibit symbolic reference, and intentionality.

The meaning of this symbolic act clearly depends on the setting in which it occurs.

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.

The Free Churches assume baptism would be a mere symbolic act, which follows conversion and a public confession of the new faith, aslo an act of obedience.

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»

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

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

Being clean is not simply a physical good; acts of purification have a symbolic significance, too — as many religious rites testify.

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.

After completing my list of past hurts, I was to bury, burn, shred, or otherwise destroy it — an act symbolic of the forgiveness I was extending.

It's not a happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act of symbolic communication of a kind that early Christian saints went to their deaths as martyrs rather than commit.

This judgment is a spontaneous, forever concealed (S 3f; PR 261, 273) mental act of symbolic reference in which CE and PI are inextricably fused (PR 185, 262f; AI 232, 279).

Causal efficacy and presentational immediacy coincide in the same act of awareness: symbolic reference is achieved.

For symbolic reference clearly requires that presentational immediacy and causal efficacy be present together in a single, unitary act of awareness.

Understanding the local church story is subversive: this act of apparent self - reference brings to consciousness the symbolic forms and processes that bind together all humanity.

The act is symbolic because such purification is vividly seen as the very partial reflection of what real purification might be.

However, the Pope's symbolic, prophetic act definitively shattered any possibility of a cover - up; and it definitively placed child protection at the top of the agenda for the Irish Church.

And in the act of reasoning they do more than cite statutes; they also develop the single symbolic moral universe — the moral architecture.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

In its place, he substitutes a beautiful act of humble service, itself symbolic as well as exemplary.

For Jesus, this was an act of symbolic restoration.

Greg Barker, who has personally supported Meat Free Monday since the start of the year said: «Giving up meat one day a week is more than just a symbolic act and, if enough of us do it, will send a very powerful and loud message to world leaders.

There was severe disruption in central London, with protestors shutting the bridge in a symbolic act disconnecting parliament from St Thomas» Hospital, on the other side of the Thames.

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

The presence of some young people in parliament may act as a strong symbolic gesture to reengage young people in politics, potentially increasing their voting turnout.

The police officer investigating the cash for honours scandal has insisted the arrest of Lord Levy yesterday was not just a symbolic act to show he was serious.

Cuomo's first act as governor was a symbolic move towards fulfilling his promise of make government more open to the people.

The Scotland Act 2016 and the Wales Act 2017 embodied the Sewel Convention in statute law for the first time, which was seen as a symbolic under - pinning for the permanence of the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales.

Several conference members have since launched on - line petitions calling for the act's repeal — a quixotic and merely symbolic quest, since the governor clearly considers this a big win and has no intention of revisiting the matter.