Sentences with phrase «symbolic form of»

This explains why the letter is written the symbolic form of waves.

With its constant translation of one symbolic form of a fraction to another, this app is prompting users to develop a deeper understanding of fractions.

In other home games I've seen unspeakable amounts of empty seats in a symbolic form of protest, but none today.

In his final two sentences, however, he recognizes the contemporary urgency that is intrinsic to his argument: «The hope of solidarity itself, and the recognition of its attendant burdens, still weighs upon us today It has remained a fragile aspiration, as much in need of condensation into symbolic forms of requisite density and imaginative power as it ever was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries of the Common Era.»

Abstract and perhaps symbolic forms of thinking associated with such creations preceded the evolutionary origins of Homo sapiens around 200,000 years ago, say archaeologist Josephine Joordens of Leiden University in the Netherlands and her

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The imaginative — albeit symbolic futuristic illustration — smart car model is designed to exist as an extension of a home's living space, blurring the lines between utility, form and function.

A symbolic, non-violent violation of the law, done deliberately in protest against some form of perceived injustice.

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.

At the same time, the event in its symbolic form expresses a contrast or pattern of contrasts between concrete actuality and relevant forms of potentiality.

They devote a full day to visiting social ministry sites within the city; upon their return, students form new groups to construct symbolic maps of Atlanta that reflect their perceptions of the city.

This approach assumes that narrative accounts form analogues to the composition of historical events and that the dynamics of narrative are expressed in events as symbolic transformations, emerging in temporal patterns, and resulting in definite configurations that can be analyzed at several levels of abstraction.

The analysis of an historical event in terms of its plot forms and related symbolic transformations eventually leads back to the final phase of synoptic resolution, illustrated by a hierarchy of contrasting elements, through which the event was initially defined.

When an event becomes an objective datum in the emerging constitution of some subsequent occasion, its symbolic form is interpreted anew, in relation to other symbolic objects, but always in conformity with the conditions established by its own actualization.

Closely connected with this point is another: my sensitivity developed as to the functions of religious language that are not open to definitive proof or falsification, but nevertheless indicate in symbolic form the presence of the ultimate.

After the manner usual in apocalypses, this doctrine is presented in the form of symbolic pictures, or «visions».

The model necessitates looking at three interrelated stages of the process: first is the shape of the symbolic world shared by the participants; second (and hardest to get at) is the set of experiences and convictions that generated a reinterpretation of that world; third.is the collection of literature containing (in quite diverse forms) that reinterpretation.

Probably in these narratives we have reminiscences of an experience that would be no less real if the form in which it was told was symbolic.

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

• the systematic use of symbolic and mathematical techniques to determine the forms of valid deductive argument.

They provide the organism, or, as Santayana puts it, the psyche (this being the power of the organism to develop and protect its form in a manner responsive to the environment) with its consciousness (symbolic rather than literal of what and where it is, and of what it is up to, but play no real part in controlling its behavior.

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.

Though I think there is a lot of sentimentality and shallowness in the recent angel craze, I think belief in angels can, in a symbolic and anthropomorphic form, assure people of the omnipresence of God.

An unfallen Beginning can express itself in symbolic form only to the extent that it is known as the opposite of a fallen present.

Within this logic, questions about «the meaning of life» itself represent the most encompassing form of symbolic integration.

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.

He also suggests that in a pluralistic culture elements of several different symbolic universes may be combined to form an individual's worldview.

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.

Throughout the history of the church, risky anthropomorphisms in Christian discourse were excused by appeal to the accommodated, analogical, symbolic or poetic form of the scriptural revelation.

S. K. Langer (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956); Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, trans.

Cf. Turner's introduction to Edward R. Spence, ed., Forms of Symbolic Action (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1970).

The essence of the New Testament lay in the religious life it portrayed; its high - watermark was the experience of mystical union with Christ, in whom God took symbolic form.

«What Reagan did give evangelicals, in great abundance, was symbolic affirmation in the form of photo ops.

Justice as a key to the symbolic life of Christianity is represented not only in feminist theology but also in African — American, Latin American and other forms of liberation theology.

As Christians in the U.S. learn to live with many different voices and cultures, one of the greatest needs in theological education will be to form persons in symbolic biculturalism — the ability to move and flourish amid various symbolic patterns.

Light, space, color, form — the tools of all artists, in his hands become informed with symbolic power.

When, that is to say, it becomes the effort of biblical theology to penetrate to the divine realities, forms, and intentions that have been temporally invested in reportorial forms available to the moment, it becomes the principal effort of systematic theology to interpret the biblical story in amplest symbolic dimensions.

Following Aristotle and Whitehead, it is unreasonable to expect a datum to submit to a more rigorous degree of specification than is appropriate to the complexity of the datum.32 At the same time, some religious discourse is more meaningful than other discourse, and it is precisely the task of theology to discover the most adequate symbolic forms using the three principles of verification outlined above.

The development of cognition in general is conceived in Piaget's genetic theory as a reconstruction of earlier forms of cognitive organization with new means and on a new level; the best known example of this development is the transformation and reconstruction of sensori - motor activity schemata into symbolic - conceptual thinking operations.

Verification concerns whether a particular symbolic form abstracted in the accusative mode is adequately descriptive of the event to which it refers.

At the same time, it is my contention, as it would be Emmet's, that the validity of the first two must be based on the assumption underlying the third, that is, that our symbolic forms must be thought to refer to real «things» or events to which we must respond and to which we are related according to the concept of rapport.

Simplification occurs when the full richness of the qualitative pattern is reduced to a symbolic form.

It differentiates the affective responses of the adverbial mode and abstracts simplified, streamlined symbolic forms from the original affective response.

This can not be done wilfully, of course, but emerges spontaneously from a particular way of appreciating the world: as an objective and beautiful thing, a symbolic reality whose fabric reveals, in a great variety of ways, the forms or archetypes of the world's order (pp. 13,125).

«51 Spare pastoral speech is compared to the pomegranate which has many seeds, all of which are ordered within a firmly formed outer rind — symbolic to Gregory of the unity of ecumenical faith (Exod.

«29 We can say that by using this or that symbolic form or proposition «the processes beyond us are so differentiated as to produce these differences of response in us.

The idea of internal functional coherence (the idealist's sole principle of verification) is based upon the assumption that there is no necessary connection between our symbolic forms and external reality.

But in daily life, my consciousness is illumined and given symbolic form by systems of discourse which deal objectively with what I experience.

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.

As a symbolic means of enhancing the other forms of prayer through the imaginative consideration of other persons, it will continue to have considerable value.

To claim identity as a «Christian» is to align oneself with a community whose symbolic forms have enabled it to deal creatively with the social, psychological and ethical dilemmas of many generations.