Sentences with phrase «symbolic expressions of»

Even myths about the elements of nature (sun and moon, summer and winter, etc.) are symbolic expressions of man's unconscious psychic life in which the eternal archetypes are encountered.30

The encounter of the gospel with the world, whether in evangelism, religious education, apologetics, or theology, requires a deep appreciation of, and initiation into, the varied symbolic expressions of culture.

Marriage is a form of acramentum — a symbolic expression of Christ's love for his Church, even a channel of God's grace to sanctify the couple, their children, and the broader community.

The Lakota medicine wheel and its symbolic expression of nature's four directions coincide with the form of the Celtic cross, an element of the Catholic tradition.

Rather these traditional ethical values must be understood as the symbolic expression of what takes place when people stand in true dialogical relation to each other.

Some myths contain within themselves the nexus of a concrete historical event experienced by a group or by an individual while many have lost their historical character and contain only the symbolic expression of a universal experience of man.

These were not orgies of mass burnings but rather, in their baroque heyday, a theatrical and symbolic expression of the supremacy of the Faith, the mercy of the Church and the order of society.

The cross is commemorated not in separation from the rest of Christ's life and work but as the final symbolic expression of a total self - giving to God, in which through prayer and thanksgiving Christians are enabled to share.

Nevertheless, the symbolic expression of concern embodied in this side - agreement, and the existence of a new type of institution may provide a context from bringing environmental issues into trade considerations in new ways.

And it is in this range that we find the symbolic expression of religions.

Once we see through the logical mistakes that underlie the cosmology on which the theory of projection has parasitically fed, we can begin to locate in a fresh way just where the symbolic expression of religion fits into the structure of the evolving universe and how the language of religion relates to that of science.

This symbolic expression of faith is currently almost neglected.

This season, I explore the allure of body ornamentation — from the intricate detail work of tattooing to the symbolic expression of skin beautification.

Acts of solidarity, as illustrated here, can then be seen through two lenses: as a symbolic expression of approval and sympathy or as a grounded effort to enact change.

Not exact matches

«Anne Frank has great symbolic power, and this has led to a multitude of manifestations, such as the naming of streets, schools and parks, but also Halloween costumes and expressions of antisemitism in the world of football.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

40 But once again, omnipotence is another symbolic term, though it is retained as an expression of our ultimate courage to have faith in «a victory over the threat of nonbeing.»

Language is a special case of symbolic expression, and the dynamics of symbol formation in the life of the self are of especial importance in the sexual life.

At the core are those actually experimenting in a serious and disciplined way with new forms of community and symbolic expression.

However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

Another background conviction has been that there is no one underlying pre-conceptual (in the quasi-technical sense of «concept» we sketched in chapter 6) religious experience of which differing construals of the Christian thing are simply alternative «symbolic expressions» or «thematizations.»

This version of symbolic functioning allows a comparison between the interpretation of a sense presentation such as the sight of lightning and linguistic expression such as the word «tree».

Silveira analyzes Pentecostalism's intense dynamism, its contradictions, its multiple manifestations, its capacity to respond to the psychological and social needs of individuals, and its symbolic power enriched by expressions of popular religiosity.

It is important to recognize, however, that even here countless concrete meetings of I and Thou have attained symbolic expression in the relatively abstract form.

The «word» may be identified with subject - object, or I - It, knowledge while it remains indirect and symbolic, but it is itself the channel and expression of I - Thou knowing when it is taken up into real dialogue.

Proust's world was preponderantly made up of subjective emotions and objective observations, whereas Dostoievsky and Blake first participated fully in what they experienced and only later attained the distance which enabled them to enter into an artistic relationship with it and give it symbolic and artistic expression.

Equal regard under the love of God, coupled with the remaining emotional, relational, and symbolic - expressive aspects of persons with advanced dementia, leads us to reject the rationalistic outlook captured in the expression «I think, therefore I am.»

We saw earlier that symbolic expressions may be regarded as a primary means by which the members of a religious communion are united.

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

In hunting for a church, Christians are not only buying a product that must be attractively presented, they are also testing their own symbolic expression against that of the prospective church.

All of this becomes «myth» or symbolic expression by which we can interpret the realities at our human situation.

Rationalism and scientism (belief in the epistemological supremacy of reason and especially of scientific method) produced the conjecture, in some quarters at least, that the symbolic / mythic / poetic / narrative modes of expression employed by all the religions are perhaps nothing more than our own subjective projections or constructs, and not representations of an independent sacral reality.

Isolated from its sacramental nursery, the «way of silence» has now become the «way of suspicion» iconoclastically declaiming the revelatory possibilities of all symbolic expression.

The imprecision of language — its inability to express exactly any cluster of propositions and the possibility of error in «symbolic reference» — affects both authorial expression and interpretation.

Because the deeper, nonverbal levels tend to be impoverished in our culture, worship should concentrate special attention on these levels through the use of symbolic and artistic expressions.

Thus their communication code, full of references to food, the farm, the rural landscape, human anatomy, death, the physical world, and the supernatural, contains messages and is indicative of a system of symbolic expression that validates and identifies these southern Black rural (peasant) migrants apart from a wider society» (Community in a Black Pentecostal Church, 175).

The debate about the symbolic dimension of expression, about the relation between literal and figurative uses of language, is an academic battleground.

Still, we can not envisage our symbolic creativity in this way until we become convinced that we ourselves are an expression, a germinating from the depths of the universe, and not aliens imparted from some other world.

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Symbolic expression is necessary to put us consciously in touch with what is the hidden metaphysical - cosmological horizon of all of our experience.

«6 Symbolic expression takes objects, persons, experiences and events that are familiar and employs them as indicators of the less familiar.

But it is precisely because this feeling remains for the most part buried beneath the level of our immediate awareness that we need symbolic expression to bring this value into our conscious awareness so as to bolster and vivify our capacity to trust.

And if we are moved by the assumption that what is clear and distinct is also the most concretely real, we will be inclined to suspect the whole realm of symbolic discourse as illusory, as moving us away from rather than toward the real world, precisely because symbolic expression is so frustratingly nebulous.

Because of the vague nature of the mythic - symbolic - poetic - ritualistic expressions of religion, some of those who idealize clarity find religion lacking in meaning and truth.

And religion is perhaps the most obvious exemplification of such symbolic expression.

What, then, would be the nature of symbolic expression when defined in terms of our cosmological considerations?

In order to compensate for this deficiency our human consciousness has searched for and has been shaped by an alternative mode of expression, the symbolic, in order to open us further to the intrinsic reality of things, namely to their importance.

I shall propose in Chapter 11 that it is the nature of symbolic expression to represent to us some aspects of what we receive in primary perception.23 And for this reason we must not be overly critical of the apparently fuzzy and ambiguous character of symbolic representation.

Thus we can not treat artistic expression as the choice of an external symbolic form to reflect feelings which are simply given.

In particular his theory of symbolic reference undermines our tendency to think of creative expression as a simple», direct display of feeling.