Sentences with phrase «symbolic language as»

Each of the great religions has also developed its own symbolic language as its interpretation of human existence within the world.

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G to T What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth.

fred «What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth»

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.

I have suggested that the language of religion may be understood as representing in a mythic and symbolic way at least a portion of the qualitative data given to us in primary perception.

It tells us that Jesus regarded it as a time of release from normal religious obligations, a time of rejoicing, and since «in the symbolic language of the East the wedding is the symbol of the day of salvation», (J Jeremias, Parables of Jesus [rev. ed., 1963], p. 117) a time of the enjoyment of the fruits of God's decisive activity on man's behalf.

My positions on all three are probably still best described as revisionary (Le, the use of a «limit - language» approach to the questions of religion and revelation; the use of process categories for understanding the reality of God; and the use of symbolic literary - critical analyses for interpreting Christology).

But there are two fundamentally different ways of approaching such an explication, and they are correlative with the two primary ways of understanding the language in which the confessional statement is made: the univocal, which takes the language as rigidly discursive, and the imagistic, which sees it as highly analogical or symbolic.

The directness of the relationship is established not only through the mediation of the senses, e.g. the concrete meeting of real living persons, but also through the mediation of the «word,» i.e. the mediation of those technical means and those fields of symbolic communication, such as language, music, art, and ritual, which enable men ever again to enter into relation with that which is over against them.

Here certainly, as in the case of the other four «last things,» we are talking in highly symbolic language.

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

Each symbolic language is a kind of super-language which has to be learned and understood by those who embrace that religion as their way of life.

In practical operation, both use language as if it were a literal description of reality, and only in more reflective moments is this symbolic and interpretive character recognized.

Under such editorship, the church's language would be «cleaned up,» striking all symbolic and mythological uses as pre-literate, primitive, and meaningless.

Hopewell had pursued his fascination with the congregation through a yearlong examination of a local United Methodist and a local Baptist congregation, and arrived in Indiana that fall with a presentation woven of insights about the two churches drawn from fields as diverse as history, economics, statistics and sociology, with particular emphasis on literary analysis, symbolic language, anthropology and mythology.

To see the universe as a whole in this way with the same God working in the universe at large, in the life of Jesus and in our lives was put in highly symbolic language by Paul in his letter to the Colossians about the Cosmic Christ.

The key to our human superiority is, scientists agree, in our symbolic power, as shown in all human languages.

His colleague George Lindbeck added an insistence on the primacy of language over experience and a theory about religion as a cultural - symbolic medium.

Theologians such as Friedrich Schleiermacher, Paul Tillich and Langdon Gilkey have given considerable attention to the sciences while clarifying the symbolic nature of language and concepts.

To see the universe as a whole in this way, with the same God working in the universe at large, and in the life of Jesus, and in the lives of all of us, was put in highly symbolic language by the apostle Paul in his letter about the «Cosmic Christ» in Colossians 1.

Ironically, the First Amendment protects symbolic language, even rude gestures such as «the finger.»

«Some linguists consider such examples of abstract symbolic reasoning as an indication of the ability to produce language, which seems to have arisen in humans only around 100,000 years ago,» Panne says.

We will need to immerse students in language that, in 9th grader Kinsey's words, «I connect to, or that I think hold brilliance, such as metaphors, symbolic meanings or things that make me wish that I had come up with them.»

The opportunity to develop additional programming as the result of the Tooker loan allows PAFA to pursue a symposium on a group of artists, including Peter Blume, George Tooker, Ivan Albright, and other Americans who used a realist method to invent their own worlds by transforming the symbolic language of Old Master painting into a contemporary idiom.

Painters needed a new symbolic language to express both sides of the present, as with Gottlieb's pictographs and crosses.

The exhibition's chronological installation brings to light intriguing parallels between these three time periods, revealing dynamic through - threads within the artistic depiction of identity from 1912 to the present, such as the turn to language, symbolic attributes, and the metaphorical significance of color and form.

Hollowell's paintings represent the body as a landscape through geometric form, vivid color and a symbolic language.

The exhibition's chronological installation reveals intriguing parallels between these three time periods, revealing dynamic through - threads within the artistic depiction of identity from 1912 to the present, such as the turn to language, symbolic attributes, and the metaphorical significance of color and form.

Throughout his career, he created a unique and symbolic language aimed at eliciting a subjective, emotional experience within the viewer, as well as a transcendent escape from political and societal realities.

Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as his use of color, language, and pattern — into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning.

The exhibition brings together a great range of artistic practices and languages (photography, video, painting, sculpture, installation...), cultures, geographic origins, generations and experiences, to establish a tension between extremely different artistic approaches: melancholy of vanity, ironic play with identity, political biography and existential questioning, the body as sculpture, effigy or fragment of its symbolic substitute.

Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as the use of color, language, and pattern — into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning.

The main influences came from his contemporaries Joseph Beuys and Georg Baselitz, postwar tendencies in Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual art, but Kiefer is most regarded as an exponent of the Neo-Expressionism derived from Minimalism and abstraction, advocating representational and symbolic visual language.

In this context, the artist uses the pencil as object and also as symbolic container; both as an immediate extension tool of the brain and as a device for creating a dynamic pattern or language.

In Barrada's work, politics is inseparable from an attention to form, as in several works where written language is replaced by a symbolic logic.

Many of the works on view in By the Book employ metaphor, allusion, and allegory as structures to evoke a powerfully symbolic visual language, while others are inspired more directly by literary texts and fictional narratives.

His works have been described as wavering between the primordial and the rational as well as the sacred and the secular, communicating through the symbolic language of myths.

... And Then It All Came Back To Me expands on metaphysical interpretations of the artist's dreams, the invented symbolic language that has long been a hallmark of the work, and most notably on the idea of self - portraiture as exploration of the artist - as - archetype.

Unlike Richter and other better - known contemporaries such as his friend George Baselitz, he stayed far longer in East Germany, developing away from western influence a faux - naïf language, at once symbolic and abstract, that addressed the experience of zero - hour Germany with utter individuality.

The iconic paintings Twombly made after returning to Rome in the early 1960s, such as Empire of Flora and School of Athens, introduce a rich, complicated, colorful, symbolic language of forms.

Trash - symbolic of a saturated culture - emerges as a language of composition, resulting in an eerie amalgamation of past, present, and future.

His work is characterized by the use of materials charged with historic and symbolic meaning, articulated in a language that references minimalism as well as pop art.

Dario Escobar's work is characterized by the use of materials charged with historic and symbolic meaning, articulated in a language that references minimalism as well as pop art.

Featuring around 100 works from public and private collections, as well as international museums, the exhibition titled The Alphabet will celebrate the artist's systematic symbolic language we came to love oh so much.

With an artistic practice that manifests itself variously as image, text, sculpture, and sound, Dages engages language as both form and content, pressing upon and pulling apart the symbolic nature of this familiar system until it buckles and cracks.

They use a symbolic visual language often inspired by their dreams that, as twins, they claim to share.

As an undergraduate, he focused his studies on symbolic logic and philosophy of language.

This Language Charter gives French a unique and somewhat symbolic official status, since, under the Canadian Constitution (Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Sections 15 (1), and 16 (1) to 22) which supersedes the laws of Quebec, English rests on an equal footing with French as the language of laws, regulations, court and parliamentary proceedings.

Play is an important vehicle for developing self - regulation as well as promoting language, cognition, and social competence... [Play] gives [children] opportunities to explore the world, interact with others, express and control emotions, develop their symbolic and problem - solving abilities, and practice emerging skills.