Sentences with phrase «symbolic means of»

Rather, gifts are a powerful, symbolic means of expressing love.

[11] But he appears uncomfortable with this teaching, probably because he wishes to distance St Thomas from the Protestant view of the Eucharist as just a memorial, a symbolic means of calling Calvary to mind.

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.

Not only does the completion of creation in six days correlate with and support the religious calendar and Sabbath observance (if the Hebrews had had a five - day work week, the account would have read differently), but also the seventh day of rest employs to the full the symbolic meaning of the number seven as wholeness, plenitude, completion.

The details of the crucifixion are more carefully related to fulfillment of scripture here than in the synoptics, and the symbolic meaning of these details is brought to the fore.

The symbolic meaning of the story is important to Luke: Jesus is both the bearer and the giver of new life.

So whether to give communion to non-Catholics or not dependson which symbolic meaning of the Mass you are using, and you get a different answer depending on the symbol you choose.

This crisis should be obvious to anyone who contemplates the real symbolic meaning of suicide bombers.

One should strive to grasp the symbolic meaning of the religious facts in their heterogeneous, yet structurally interlocking appearances; such facts can be rites or ritual behavior as well as myths or legends or supernatural beings.

There is a level of ignorance that some people who don't know the symbolic meaning of certain things exhibit and pretend that they know it all.

Scientists call this phenomenon «enclothed cognition», and Adam Hajo and Adam D. Galinsky, both professors at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, write in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, write that enclothed cognition «involves the co-occurrence of two independent factors — the symbolic meaning of the clothes and the physical experience of wearing them.»

48 % of men and 36 % of women agree that it's important to pay attention to the symbolic meanings of your flowers.

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According to the survey, 48 % of men and 36 % of women agree that, along with romance, it's important to pay attention to the symbolic meanings of your flowers.

Men and women would declare hidden, often forbidden feelings by way of a bunch of flowers — the symbolic meaning of the blooms spelling out what couldn't be said out loud.3

How does having one actor play more than one role add to the symbolic meaning of the story?

For example, in the «Bridges» capstone (PDF), students learn about the mathematical and engineering concepts necessary to construct bridges, as well as the symbolic meaning of bridges in literature, history, and social studies.

Do your students know the symbolic meaning of our American flag?

Viewers in the space, by experiencing a sense of physical and mental constriction, are encouraged to reflect on the authoritative and symbolic meaning of signs, barriers, and borders.

While the work brings to mind monochromatic painting and the symbolic meaning of yellow in the western tradition — light, warmth, and luxury — it also questions our conventional understanding of art because it is a work that can be executed by anyone, anywhere.

Legs are the subject matter of choice of Cousin's oeuvre that examines the human condition and the history of painting through a mixture of figurative and geometric elements rendered in a distinctively painterly style using a bold colour palette and with particular attention to the symbolic meaning of the visual forms depicted in her work.

«Each object is also attuned to the combined symbolic meanings of my materials.

The paintings are colorful gestural abstractions of another reality with symbolic meaning of a dreamlike utopian state of mind.

His conceptual works are grounded in the symbolic meaning of their individual elements.

The black and white sock takes on a more symbolic meaning of polarization, but also stands for creating a dialogue about our collective future and the one of our planet.

To add to the «meaning of colour» you touched upon, I have a little book which lists the symbolic meaning of plants.

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The decision drew immediate backlash from prominent medical and advocacy groups; Mugabe's appointment in the largely symbolic position was reportedly meant to raise awareness of non-communicable diseases like heart disease in Africa.

As noted previously, much of the value of having a large charging infrastructure is symbolic - it serves to assuage the customer's fear as opposed to being the dominant means by which they charge their vehicle.

If a Bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either; (i) taken out of context; (ii) symbolic, allegorical or otherwise means something other than it says; (iii) referring to another verse somewhere else that rectifies the error; (iv) a translation or copyist's error; (v) a mystery of God not discernible by we mere humans; or (vi) just plain magic.

Even if she would be uncomfortable with such symbolic meaning, she is entitled to the respect of the countless others who have faced similar problems of migration and wandering and those who might once again be faced with similar macroscopic challenges.

The colors of the various robes each have a symbolic meaning, e.g red for the cardinals, signifies that as a leader of the Church they are willing to die for the faith.

Because the relation between symbols and the things they stand for is arbitrary, symbolic etiquette is a powerful means of communication.

It is a good rule that in trying to understand the Bible one should not have recourse to a figurative or allegorical explanation of any passage (outside those poetical and prophetical compositions which obviously have a symbolic intention) without first settling conclusions with the straightforward meaning, even if it seems offensive; for the offence may set up that tension in the mind through which we often reach the truth.

I find the raising of Lazarus from the dead (John 12) more difficult to accept as historical, although its symbolic meaning as brought out by John is powerful.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

Instead, the interviewer treats the member's answer as a disclosure of meaning important within itself, a symbolic construction that the interviewer must try to understand.

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.

Not only does this have practical value at a time when family members may not have the time or energy to fix meals but it also has a profound symbolic meaning on the level of feeding and nurturing.

It should not be described as a «myth,» for despite a proper use of the word which might be permissible, there is a serious danger of a misunderstanding of it since generally its meaning is taken to be a «fairy - tale» — a symbolic account of what may be most dreadfully «un-fact.»

Like those religious fellowships of Liberia and Sierra Leone, the north Georgia congregations conveyed their culture (later he used the more precise term «subculture») by means of distinct idioms, symbolic dialects constructed both to express and to maintain group identity.

But the greatest irony is that the symbolic richness and power — the religious meaning — of creation are largely lost in the cloud of geological and paleontological dust stirred up in the confusion.

Man is uniquely the creature of meaning, and thus is «able to grasp the logos of reality as such and to represent it through symbolic speech and action.

When God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, it was not just to see if Abraham was faithful enough to follow his commandment, it was also symbolic of the sacrifice God himself would make in sacrifice his beloved and begotten son, but unlike Abraham who was spared at the last moment from carrying through with the sacrifice of his son, God the father actually carried through with the sacrifice and although it wasn't permanent it still did not mean that there was no anguish, it doesn't matter how brief it was, if it was enough for divine and eternal beings to have to go through such heartache, all of which for our lowly sakes, in my view that is quite significant and I believe that such suffering is actually beyond mine or anyone else's comprehension.

Whitehead's statement that propositions are «lures for feeling» (PR 395) means that the commonsense world which we perceive is symbolic of the throbbing world of physical activities (PW 141/153).

Burke recommends that the analysis of any written work should begin with the «principle of the concordance».21 The critic builds an index of significant terms: terms that recur in changing contexts, terms that occur at significant points in the narrative, terms that seem heavy with symbolic meaning.

Having now set forth at least the principal meanings and symbolic implications of the dominant Reformation image of the ministry, we may return to a comparison and contrast of this image with that of the medieval period: preacher — pulpit — open - Bible in relation to priest - before - altar.

The mythic narratives and genealogical accounts of Genesis, the symbolic geography of the Gospel narratives, and even the theological vocabulary of Paul offered opportunities for analyzing the patterns of binary opposition that structuralists argued were the key to the meaning of the texts.

A lot of preaching consists of sort of giving the symbolic words, the doctrinal utterances, but not conveying what they really mean.

As we shall see in the next section, Whitehead's principal version of symbolic reference becomes his means of relating images or sensa as directly perceived to the objects which cause them.

These «other elements,» Whitehead says in Symbolism, constitute the «meaning» of the symbol, and the transition from symbol to meaning is called here «symbolic reference.»