Sentences with phrase «symbolic forms other»

Esthetic truth is another kind of revelation of what is so, through symbolic forms other than those of literal fact.

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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.

Baldovin describes how in medieval Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, and many other cities where Christianity formed the symbolic basis for social life, worship was not confined to the neighborhood church.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is the function of religion (as well as other forms of symbolic reference) to restore this concreteness to us.

As sociologist David Lyon has put it, consumption expresses a «system of symbolic rivalry,» where consumers form their identity «through acquiring commodities that make them distinct from others, and seek approval through lifestyle and symbolic membership.»

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

Experts refer to such decorations — along with sculpture, cave paintings and other art forms — as symbolic behaviors, which are a defining characteristic of the modern mind.

One might expect that with a square support the components of the grid would be squares also, forming a Cartesian grid in which the two symbolic structures of Modernist formal rigor would reinforce each other, as they do in Reinhardt's black paintings.

Floral references abound, and discreetly placed amongst Sutton House's historic Tudor rooms are other symbolic floral references, including the work Sanctuary (after van Aelst), a drawing cut form acrylic paint and contained within a fire - screen.

During the 1970s, Lucy Lippard, Miriam Schapiro, Judy Chicago, and other feminists put forth a theory about women's art, finding that an enclosure or rounded form was at the center of much work by women, including O'Keeffe, whose flower paintings, begun in the 1920s, had often been described as symbolic of female sexuality.

Some Americans art historians believed that your work possessed a kind of symbolic and emotional content that reflected the experience of the war more accurately than other painters and, in a way, different form the paintings of the abstract expressionists.

During the event, we'll come together to join hands, forming symbolic barriers against spilled oil and to stand against the impacts of other forms of extreme energy.

For example, in a survey of parents who are targets of alienation, Baker and Darnell4 found that targeted parents reported that alienators interfered with parenting time (e.g., scheduled appointments or frequently called during the other parent's parenting time), interfered with contact with the children (e.g., intercepted phone messages or email), interfered with symbolic contact like gift giving (e.g., threw away gifts or sent them back), did not inform them about important information (e.g., school activities, doctor appointments), threatened to take children away from the them, and formed unhealthy alliances with the children such as having had their children spy and report back information to the alienating parent, or sending cell phones with children to call the alienating parent from the target parent's home.