Sentences with phrase «symbolic way at»

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.

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Nakedpastor David Hayward May 28, 2015 at 7:34 am I do believe that our «gods» are our external projections of an ideal, our attempt to understand the mystery in symbolic ways.

At the core are those actually experimenting in a serious and disciplined way with new forms of community and symbolic expression.

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I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

To see the universe as a whole in this way with the same God working in the universe at large, in the life of Jesus and in our lives was put in highly symbolic language by Paul in his letter to the Colossians about the Cosmic Christ.

Funny, a whole long article about how apologetic these people are, but I didn't see one thing about them offering the couple the choice of a symbolic marriage ceremony at the church to show both acceptance & tell the bigots there cries for hate won't be tolerated & they won't get their way.

«15 Moreover, Whitehead emphasizes that symbolic reference, at least in human symbolisms, is generally a two - way affair in which the symbol and the symbolized are frequently interchangeable, a situation that suggests a reciprocal interaction between secondary (poetic) imagination and the social or cultural aspect of symbolizing.16

To see the universe as a whole in this way, with the same God working in the universe at large, and in the life of Jesus, and in the lives of all of us, was put in highly symbolic language by the apostle Paul in his letter about the «Cosmic Christ» in Colossians 1.

The presence of the dead at their funerals ups the existential, emotional and spiritual ante in a way that virtual or symbolic memorials fail to do.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

And in Durkheim, a lifetime of work in which the changing bases of moral community lie at the center culminates in a full - scale discussion of religious myth and ritual, a discussion rich with insights about the ways in which symbolic categories are constructed and how they function.

Questions of right and wrong can not be settled during a war but at most only after the war, and only in a symbolic way like the Nuremberg trials, and that too only if the Good Guys have won.

Cognitive scientists are expert at pinpointing all the ways we can make symbolic interpretations or be completely fooled.

At that time, there was no symbolic way to do so.

Having once before fallen for a â $ œNorth Pole is melting!â $ scam, even the New York Times — on its blog, mind you, no need to tamp down alarmism on its print pages â $ «admitted that the hyperventilated headline and lede â $ œgo way beyond what Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice Data Center tells the reporter.â $ Serreze claimed on an alarmist blog that his actual claims â $ œquickly grew out of all reasonable proportion, â $ admitting that a summer loss of ice at the North Pole â $ œsummer would be purely symbolic, but symbolism can be pretty darned powerfulâ $ (prompting an alarmist, taxpayer - servant to call on his team to invoke such stunts more often).

While reading Jottings By An Employer's Lawyer (which by the way is a very good US blawg for those who are interested), I found out about a case where news anchor Tom Burlington at Fox 29 in Philadelphia was fired for using the n - word during a staff meeting at which reporters and producers were discussing reporter Robin Taylor's story about the symbolic burial of the word by the Philadelphia Youth Council of the NAACP.

The idea is that what is the most essential often lies just at the edge of our awareness, so turning to symbolic or somatic representation is a way to directly work with this core material.