Sentences with phrase «symbolic modes of thinking»

The Arts communicate in non-linguistic, expressive ways, culturally, and through symbol and metaphor (Wiggans, 2009; Wright, 2003) Wright highlights the non-linguistic nature of artistic expression and communication stating that the Arts «involve expressive and symbolic modes of thinking, understanding and knowing, and communicate ideas in a unique manner... they enable us to «say» things to each other that can not be expressed in any other way» (Wright, 2003, p. 17).
The role of symbols and symbolic modes of thinking is intrinsic to Christian discourse as well, but it takes on a different function.
One can not understand Edward Irving's turn to premillennialism, in my view, apart from an effort to interpret the world in light of Coleridge's use of symbolic modes of thinking.

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The separation of the two pure modes would then allow for focusing upon the actuality of this experience in the pure mode of causal efficacy rather than on the projected referents as we do in the normal thought processes of symbolic reference.
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.
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