Sentences with phrase «symbolic language from»

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Once we accept that the language of Genesis is symbolic, then there is no difficulty in holding both what it really teaches about creation and what we have learned from modern science.

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.

The capacities for abstract reasoning, symbolic language, self - and death - awareness set mankind apart from the rest of the biological world.

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).

This makes no sense from the viewpoint of symbolic language, but fits with the social function of presymbolic language which is social cohesion, (84).

The source of these difficulties, I believe, is his theory of analogy, the attempt, in connection with his neoclassical theory of religious language, to establish a third stratum of meaning, or set of concepts and terms, distinct both from the set of plainly formal, strictly literal concepts and terms, on the one hand, and from the set of plainly material, merely symbolic or metaphorical concepts and terms, on the other.

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.

The «symbolic» nature of sense perception and experience prevents the ontological fullness of being from being captured by either language or philosophy.

The manner in which religious consciousness expresses its intimation of such an ultimate context of meaning is primarily through symbolic and mythic modes of thought and language which differ from culture to culture.

An explicit opt - out from that language would be a symbolic gesture for the Government to bring back from its renegotiation.

The acquisition of language and the capacity for symbolic art may lie at the very heart of the extraordinary cognitive abilities that set us apart from the rest of creation

Apparently, pigs have excellent long - term memories, can comprehend and learn a symbolic language, and live in social communities where they learn from each other.

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.

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.

Exhibiting internationally since the early 1990s, Suzanne McClelland's practice includes both large - scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting fragments of speech or text from various political and cultural sources and exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.

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.

Her practice includes both large - scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting fragments of speech or text from various political and cultural sources and exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.

The subsequent development of McLuckie's distinctive, obsessive and symbolic visual language is adopted from the disciplines of rudimentary craft and self - taught bead - work, and he equates its process - driven nature to seasonality, cycles and attendant fertility rituals.

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

Picasso had pulled back from abstraction after Synthetic Cubism, Mondrian had left us in a cold white light; Miró was still painting in his own wonderful private symbolic language and Matisse had died leaving the doors open to abstraction with his paper cut - outs.

Over the course of his career Terry Winters has expanded the concerns of abstract art, beginning with botanically inspired images (cells, spores, seeds) and going on to explore biological processes, scientific and mathematical fields, and issues raised by the interaction of information technologies and the human mind, while maintaining a strong modernist sensibility that reveals itself in the symbolic languages of figures and lines he develops in his work Winters (born 1949) received a BFA from Pratt University, New York, in 1971.

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.

Exhibiting internationally since the early 1990s, Suzanne McClelland's practice includes both large - scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting fragments of speech or text from various political and cultural sources, exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.

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.

Seemingly behaving according to a symbolic language of their own, they pose alone or interact in communal dances, with some figures holding torches and others exposed naked from the waist down.