Sentences with phrase «symbols in a religious context»

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He specifically had a symbol of religion built and put in a place of honor at a government facility, and the context of it being a list of laws from religious doctrine at a place where the law is created, upheld and enforced, certainly made the matter crystal clear.

Therefore, in proclaiming the Kingdom of God in our context should mean taking seriously the cultural and religious symbols and traditions which embody their vision of life and wholeness.

«9 Thus the «world of facts» with which the empirical sciences deal must be seen ultimately in another context — a context given meaning by religious symbols — which is beyond the scope of the empirical sciences.

The problem is that in the context of American evangelicalism, where religious images are often absent, pop - culture representations of the faith can become the formative symbols and images that a faith community encounters.

In order to decipher a religious symbol, not only is it necessary to take into consideration all of its contexts, but one must above all reflect on the meanings that this symbol has had in what we might call its «maturity.&raquIn order to decipher a religious symbol, not only is it necessary to take into consideration all of its contexts, but one must above all reflect on the meanings that this symbol has had in what we might call its «maturity.&raquin what we might call its «maturity.»