Sentences with phrase «symbolical acts»

He has the king perform symbolical acts, and the remarkable thing is that the king obeys without demur: «Take a bow and arrows»; «Open the window eastward»; «Draw the bow.»

But the baptism is no magical performance, for it promises escape only to the seriously repentant; at the same time it is no merely symbolical act in the modern sense; it is rather a «sign» in the antique meaning of the word, which guarantees the mysterious union of the symbolical act, now occurring, with the future event which the symbolical act prophesies.

Thus, a private initiative has turned into a symbolical act of compensation.

Not exact matches

In the first place, we must reply that if such language is - to have any meaning at all it must denote an act in a real, objective sense, and not just a symbolical or pictorial expression.

Perhaps we may say that behind all the objections raised against demythologizing there lurks a fear that if it were carried to its logical conclusion it would make it impossible for us to speak of an act of God, or if we did it would only be the symbolical description of a subjective experience.