Sentences with phrase «symbolic use of»

Considering the beauty and tranquility of the adjacent canal, Copley Wolff Design Group's landscape plan of the mill yard incorporated a symbolic use of water, which powered the original turbines, while emphasizing the gateway connection across the canal.

Detrixhe's symbolic use of the rug to shape this loose earth is deliberate: in our culture, it's something luxurious that the wealthy and powerful can own.

What is the significance behind your symbolic use of the womb in relation to the human condition?

Detailed Description: Cheryl Goldsleger is intrigued by the symbolic use of mazes and labyrinths, enigmatic structures with architectural roots.

Cheryl Goldsleger is intrigued by the symbolic use of mazes and labyrinths, enigmatic structures with architectural roots.

We can fully appreciate Wallace's symbolic use of plywood within the three monochrome monoprints, Monoprint With Burgundy, Monoprint With Mustard, and Monoprint with Green, all dating 1990.

With these works, Wilson explores the symbolic use of black in relation to race and in association with mourning.

I became concerned with the issue of freedom of expression in figurative imagery, particularly the symbolic use of dark bodies.

African American painter Beauford Delaney was a critically acclaimed artist often remembered for his symbolic use of sharp, pure colors that thickly saturated his canvases.

The physical and symbolic use of sound has been both a tool for and subject of her recent works; she often collaborates with musicians during the development and performance of her work.

Alongside this traditional imagery, everyday textiles from the uniforms of park wardens, policemen and refuse collectors created colourful «paintings» that formed part of the artist's exploration of the symbolic use of fabric in both Italian religious art as well as in its contemporary secular forms.

It overlays physical space, making symbolic use of its objects» (2).

The survey focused on how these educational leaders use research to inform their decision making, identifying three types of research use defined in earlier studies: instrumental use of research to guide or inform a specific decision; conceptual use of research to inform the way a person views a problem or possible solutions; and symbolic use of research to persuade others or legitimate a decision already made.

Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago.

What relation does analogy have with the symbolic use of myth and with the limit concept of the wholly other?

Tillich's symbolic use of terms also seems vulnerable to much the same criticism.

«Using juxtaposition, redirection, irony and his own idiosyncratic brand of humor, he confronted viewers with powerful symbolic uses of historical artifacts that put them in entirely new contexts,» the historical society's librarians wrote in a 2013 article about the exhibition.

Not exact matches

The islands holds significant symbolic importance to South Korea but Japan has protested the use of the islands in the Korean unification flag.

This past January, for the first time in its history, Germany faced a symbolic milestone by covering around 100 % of electricity use with renewable energy, and for 2017 it produced with renewable sources 36.1 % of total power consumption.

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.

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.»

Martin criticizes Hartshorne's methodology through a rigorous use of Symbolic Logic.

As he wrote earlier in this chapter, any use of the test as «a substitute for searching conversation» about world view / setting and the other dimensions of narrative explored later in the book was in his view more likely to yield a mechanist reduction than a deepened symbolic understanding.

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.

The use of numbers in ancient religious texts was usually numerological rather than numerical; that is, their symbolic value was more important than their secular value as counters.

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).

• the systematic use of symbolic and mathematical techniques to determine the forms of valid deductive argument.

We can find, therefore, very general similarities between the use and interpretation of sentences at the linguistic level and primitive natural signs as characterized in Whitehead's first version of symbolic reference.

by Franz Rosenzweig and Ludwig Strauss [Berlin: Lambert Schneider Verlag, 1928], p. 65 f.) This statement is symbolic of the way in which he has consistently answered this question: good can be maximized not through the rejection or conquest of evil but only through the transformation of evil, the use of its energy and passion in the service of the good.

This filtering process involves the use of symbolic categories.

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

The primary function of most teachers should be to stimulate and channel the students» dedication to make use of the abundant resources available through modern techniques of symbolic reproduction and distribution.

Such conversion may well lead one to institutional affiliation with others of similar intention and to the use of certain verbal formulations of faith, since the inward reorientation needs some social and symbolic embodiment.

Recent psychology has found great use for the word «threshold» as a symbolic designation for the point at which one state of mind passes into another.

You have people who thought it was a sign, used it as a symbolic piece that would relate to many Americans who are Christian, and is therefore a piece of history that could very well belong in a museum.

Here Luke sets aside any symbolic meaning, and uses the story as his version of the call of the disciples.

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).

The symbolic nature of the struggle is stated succinctly in Roman's discussion of the 1917 constitutional congress: «Although other arguments were also used against the clergy, the issue returned time and again to the saving and the building of the nation and to destroying the ideological domination of the church» (italics added).55 Article 3.

Symbolic logic, he tells us above, is the symbolic examination of «pattern with the use of real variables»; in other words, it is the systematic examination of «propositionsSymbolic logic, he tells us above, is the symbolic examination of «pattern with the use of real variables»; in other words, it is the systematic examination of «propositionssymbolic examination of «pattern with the use of real variables»; in other words, it is the systematic examination of «propositions.»

Martha Crampton reports: «Symbolic identification may... be used to expand our consciousness and to gain a deeper sense of participation in, and oneness with the universe.

I had read a similar explanation many years ago — about oil being the «medical preparation» for healing of the day — with a modern - day understanding that the oil we might use today could be symbolic of the medical preparation for healing — yes, even as we take advantage of the wonders and miracles of modern medicine.

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

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.

Rigorous use of biblical criticism prevents psychologizing and allegorizing, insofar as the attempt is made to recover what Jesus actually taught and how the church in fact interpreted his teaching, and only then to inquire into its psycho - social and symbolic meaning, both for Jesus and the church, and for us today.

It would be more correct to speak of texts as «straightforward descriptions» of an event or state of affairs, to use Kelsey's phrase, if one has in mind this notion, «symbolic reference,» in Whitehead's theory of perception, rather than «propositions,» as Kelsey does.

Following Aristotle and Whitehead, it is unreasonable to expect a datum to submit to a more rigorous degree of specification than is appropriate to the complexity of the datum.32 At the same time, some religious discourse is more meaningful than other discourse, and it is precisely the task of theology to discover the most adequate symbolic forms using the three principles of verification outlined above.

Congregational researchers also use contextual, mechanical, organic, and symbolic approaches to assess the local church, because congregations are also dwellings, but for a different kind of household.

Because the deeper, nonverbal levels tend to be impoverished in our culture, worship should concentrate special attention on these levels through the use of symbolic and artistic expressions.

A second feature of the symbolic approach is its use of a linguistic model to depict congregational culture.

«29 We can say that by using this or that symbolic form or proposition «the processes beyond us are so differentiated as to produce these differences of response in us.