The most familiar
symbolic term for describing the nature of the Church is a term coined by Paul.
Not exact matches
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Symbolic transference» seems to be an older term for «symbolic reference»; «objective lure» for «subjective aim»; «presentational» and «causal objectification» for «presentational immediacy» and «causal efficacy
Symbolic transference» seems to be an older
term for «
symbolic reference»; «objective lure» for «subjective aim»; «presentational» and «causal objectification» for «presentational immediacy» and «causal efficacy
symbolic reference»; «objective lure»
for «subjective aim»; «presentational» and «causal objectification»
for «presentational immediacy» and «causal efficacy.»
David Lull responds initially by arguing from Cobb that the idea of creative transformation is a material norm
for theology, and that the word «transformation» is a rational statement of the more
symbolic terms «creation, redemption, justification, emancipation, or sanctification» (WPH 194).
He knows my attempts to give clear meanings to these three words, and that I
term «
symbolic» concepts that are applied eminently to God but not at all to some sorts of creatures,
for instance, «shepherd» or «light.»
For in the sense in which he uses the
term «literal» in the other passages in which he affirms the same categorial
terms to have a literal rather than either a
symbolic or an analogical meaning, it means nothing other than «univocal» (although, as we shall see presently, this is not the only sense in which he uses the
term «literal»).
These
symbolic terms all cohere and relate together, depending upon one another
for their full meaning and often being defined in
terms of one another.
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.
To compare different cultures, past and present, in
terms of how Christ,
for instance, is imaged, functions, conceptualized and so on is to enter a kind of bicultural
symbolic analysis.
The
terms vary; now the
symbolic phrase is reconciliation to God and man» now increase of gratitude
for the forgiveness of sin, now the realization of the kingdom or the coming of the Spirit, now the acceptance of the gospel.
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.
Within such a paradigm we would begin to analyse an issue such as media and violence in
terms of its effects first on the broader
symbolic environment that is needed
for constructive social life, rather than just on isolated and selected individual actions.
On Wednesday, he tapped former one -
term Rep. Kathy Hochul of Buffalo
for the largely
symbolic spot, replacing the retiring Bob Duffy...
Check with your 401k plan provider on the loan
terms and costs (they'll charge some
symbolic amount
for managing the loan
for you).
Richter redefined the
terms of contemporary painting as he looked to photography
for a way to release painting from the political and
symbolic burdens of Socialist Realism and Abstract Expressionism.
In short, the Uluru Statement calls
for recognition of Australia's first peoples not in purely
symbolic terms, to merely fix a historical wrong, but to permanently enshrine the First Nations Voice in the constitution.