Sentences with phrase «symbolic language of»

Couples» communication includes the symbolic language of words, micro-expressions, body language, tone of voice, and other elements.

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.

In recent years, Issa has probed this question against the abstracting background and symbolic language of monuments and memorials.

In creating the drawings, Voigt first maps the movements of her entire body, and then translates her full - body experience into a symbolic language of illusionistic organic shapes that float on a flat background.

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.

Influenced by the skate and surf culture of his native Virginia Beach, and educated in graphic design and art theory, Ryan McGinness has developed a diverse practice that translates the symbolic language of mass culture into the arena of contemporary art, proposing his universal iconography for our information age.

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.

He believed that art could convey profound messages without using the complicated visual games of Cubism or the dense symbolic language of Freudian psychoanalysis.»

Throughout a career lasting over fifty years, Yvonne Thomas blended the intuitive freedom of Abstract Expressionism with the symbolic language of form and color.

Clear geometrical and outreaching forms evoke Native - American Indigenous images and echo the symbolic language of comic strips.

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.

Virtual manipulatives can make an enormous contribution to sense - making abilities for all students — and have been shown to be of special benefit to students who are high - risk, learning disabled, or with limited English proficiency to understand the symbolic language of math.

Along for the ride is physicist Ian Donnelly (Renner) who with Banks, form the core of the American team attempting to understand the unique, symbolic language of the Heptapods.

There may well be a significant parallel to such a cosmic vision in the symbolic language of Tantric Buddhism, but it is difficult to think of a comparable antecedent in the West.

But it might not be idle or grotesque to suggest that there is a Buddhist ground for Whitehead's language about God, which is to say a religious ground which is far more meaningful in terms of the symbolic language of Buddhism than it is in that of any other religious tradition, including Christianity.

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.

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.

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We do not know anything about the days of Noah other than remnants of a symbolic picture language that brought the story forward and was recorded by Moses in about 1,400 BC.

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»

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.

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.

In that event language is robbed of its symbolic character.

In phenomenology, symbolic logic, and the analysis of the meaning of language, attempts are still being made to reach determinate conclusions not subject to further revision.

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.

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).

It obviously is not symbolic language — it is an exacting portrait of the creature's appearance.

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.

However, in the past few decades many Christian thinkers, recognizing the difficulty of supporting claims about cosmic realities, have emphasized the symbolic character of all such language.

But more surprisingly, the displaced qualities of the «dance language» of honeybees involve some degree of inhibition of symbolic reference.

Yet there is no trace of communication by learned symbolic languages among reptiles, of hair or feathers among amphibians, of the auditory apparatus of land vertebrates, or of legs or wings, among the fish.

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.

It is characteristic of language that many different symbolic systems can be used to express roughly the same world of meanings.

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

Today, more than a century after Lincoln articulated a moral center on behalf of national reconciliation, secularity has so infiltrated our leadership and our elite institutions that presidential candidates are reluctant to employ moral language and are uncertain about any symbolic code.

Both art and religion are rooted in the Logos, and the language of both is symbolic; for symbols, whether religious or aesthetic, open up levels of reality which are otherwise closed for us and unlock dimensions of our soul which correspond to that reality.

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).

So, symbolism is metaphor with the primary term suppressed.98 Penn emphasized that the language of Jesus is symbolic and that the Kingdom is more a symbol than a concept.99 There is a unity between the teachings of Jesus regarding the Kingdom of God and the parables» relation to it.100 Differentiating between concepts and symbols, Eliade asserts:

Book of Mormon people did use ancient symbolic language when describing religiosity, (one of many mountains of evidences that it is an ancient book.)

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

A human being (a child, for instance) is first shown a visible picture of a physical object and then the audible or written symbolic language component is linked to it to give comprehension.

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.

The language of faith - prophetic, narrative, symbolic, allegorical, unconditional - often stands in contrast to the language of business - strategic, operational, quantitative, measurable, conditional.

Every discipline develops its own symbolic language in terms of which it replaces the total complex situation by a model that represents those variables in which it is interested.

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

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.

Each community has its own symbolic language in terms of which it interprets experience, and these symbols have little meaning for the outsider in either case.

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.

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.