Sentences with phrase «symbols of man»

An outstanding example of the struggle, Male and Female (1942) is dominated by two totemlike figures, symbols of man and woman, that stretch the full length of the canvas.

One possibility would be to take them as symbols of man's inner life.

Classical discussions of the symbolic and analogical character of religious language were dependent on the metaphysical assumptions of Platonism or scholasticism, which can no longer be presupposed; more recent interpretations often hold that religious images are only symbols of man's subjective life.

I like the part in the movie 2012 when the Vatican tumbles down... another iconic symbol of man's darkness and nasty corruption.

Diaper changing is the primary symbol of men's resistance to baby care.

It has been reported that Eurycoma longifolia Jack commonly known as Tongkat Ali has gained notoriety as a symbol of man's ego and strength by the Malaysian men because it increases male virility and sexual prowess during sexual activities.

It has been reported that Eurycoma longifolia Jack commonly known as Tongkat Ali has gained notoreity as a symbol of man's ego and strength by the Malaysian men because it increases male virility and sexual prowess during sexual activities.

His «hockey stick graph» became the defining symbol of man - made climate change â $ «and made him a special target of the fossil - fuel lobby.

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Tokyo and Munich, in particular, coincided with the graphic design profession's coming of age, Hulse notes, when some now - universally recognized visual shorthands came into being, such as the men's and women's symbols on bathroom doors.

A man walks past a Bitcoin symbol on a window of the offices of the bank «La Maison du Bitcoin» on December 05, 2017 in Paris.

Young men are prohibited from wearing modishly long hair, which the chairman regards as a symbol of the Western counterculture and a menace to the work ethic that he prizes.

On May 3, 2003, the Old Man of the Mountain, New Hampshire's iconic symbol, lost its 10,000 - year battle with gravity and slipped from its spot atop Franconia Notch.

Troubled boys and young men like Cruz are drawn to such symbols of perceived masculinity and strength to overcome feelings of impotence.

Verse 10 says it is a symbol that a woman is under the authority of a man, who in turn is under the authority of Christ.

Amazingly back in the 60 I was told the empty chair you speak of was a symbol that all men have a need for rest.

As a fan of Jung the study of man and his symbols is always of interest.

If she was hired as a gift wrapper for the holiday season, she would have also expected to decorate packages with Santas, elves, pagan seasonal symbols like holly, and probably a lot of things that refer to the Christian tradition of Christmas — angels, doves, 3 wise men and stuff like that.

Blink wrong, wear the wrong type of underwear, have a symbol of your belief hanging from your neck, wearing white socks instead of colored with dress pants, fat men in speedos on the beach (yikes!)

2000 years ago: Philo Judeaus said: «The letter of this statement is plain enough; for it is expressed according to the symbol of the part, a half of the whole, each party, the man and the woman, being as sections of nature co-equal for the production of that genus which is called man.»

In his powerful book The Non-Violent Cross James Douglass makes a great deal of the resurrection, but for him the resurrection is only a symbol of oppressed people's awakening to the power of nonviolence: «Man becomes God when Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 2Man becomes God when Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 2man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 2man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 24).

Catholics have always recognised that the differences between men and women are a physical reality that conveys important truths: that human marriage is a symbol - a living, life - giving, and procreative one - of the relationship between the ultimate Bridegroom, Christ, and his Bride, the Church.

The Passion of Christ is the particular form and symbol of the passion of modern alienated man.

Christ became flesh to remain flesh, to become a living symbol for the man of radical faith living in the time of the death of God.

What needs to be asked is how men and women can live in this culture filled with sexual symbols, sharing in the new freedom, and discover the creativity and satisfaction of authentic human love.

The sacrifices were confided in by good men as the outward symbols of forgiven sin and reestablished fellowship with God, but they were also confided in by evil men as an efficacious technique for placating God regardless of one's ethical life.

Dynamically, swearing is a symbol of something quite important — viz., that this is not a «churchy» or pious group but a real he - man approach.

Such a contemporary appropriation of the symbol of the Kingdom of God can also make possible our realization of the gospel, or the «good news,» of the death of God: for the death of God does not propel man into an empty darkness, it liberates him from every alien and opposing other, and makes possible his transition into what Blake hailed as «The Great Humanity Divine,» or the final coming together of God and man.

However, the traditional apocalyptic symbol of the Son of Man is a symbol of a heavenly and divine Being; and his epiphany — which marks the advent of the final Eschaton — occurs in the heavens, where he appears with legions of angels.

It is unlikely that the relic is in fact the «true heart» of the real man, but it is an important symbol of the history of the city, and the pre-Norman church.

14.33] a sign of forgiveness; the feast is a sign of rejoicing; the robe marks him as an honoured guest; the ring is a signet ring and a symbol of authority; the shoes mark him as a free man, not a slave.

Love is the will to that communion between God and man and between every man and his neighbour which has its ontological ground expressed in the Trinitarian symbol of the love of the Father for His Son.

I assured the young men that I'd not deny that any book may in some sense be the Word of God; indeed, anything can be a symbol of God.

It tells us that Jesus regarded it as a time of release from normal religious obligations, a time of rejoicing, and since «in the symbolic language of the East the wedding is the symbol of the day of salvation», (J Jeremias, Parables of Jesus [rev. ed., 1963], p. 117) a time of the enjoyment of the fruits of God's decisive activity on man's behalf.

«the simple suggestion that Jesus appears to be the supreme symbol furnished to us by history of the notion of a God genuinely and literally sympathetic (incomparably more literally than any man ever is), receiving into his own experience the suffering as well as the joys of the world.»

Then man himself as an image of God becomes a clearer symbol of God.

While the COI may consider the relic as precious as a symbol of the cathedral's history, Roman Catholics see that heart as imbued with the grace of Christ himself and as an actual physical representation of God's work through that man.

Albion — Blake's symbol of the universal and cosmic «Man» — falls into the depths of darkness, and his fall is not only the fall of man but of all reality whatsoevMan» — falls into the depths of darkness, and his fall is not only the fall of man but of all reality whatsoevman but of all reality whatsoever.

As a symbol it is our clearest evidence and surest pointer to what God did not only for men on Calvary but of what God has always been seeking in love to do for his erring children.

The cross is not a symbol of conquest, but rather a means by which Jesus, the man actualized the highest possible state of intimacy (uns) with his pre-existent or creation - generating state.

He grasps the ineffable through the creation of symbols, in signs and speech which reveal God to men for this age.

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

The American revolution produced heroic symbols that explicated the existential nature of man in the order of existence as both immanent and transcendent, and consequently a spiritual catastrophe was averted if not a political one.

As the God - man, Teilhard's vision would instruct us, Christ was both the symbol and visible evidence of the process of integration - toward - unification; and as Christians, we must surely see, it is our task to help Omega makes its Point in whatever ways we can.

Similarly, the very symbols which man uses to address God often stand in the way of that address.

But man's greatness lies in the response which binds Thou into the world of It, for it is through this response that knowledge, work, image, and symbol are produced.

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

The curtain of the temple is torn (verse 38)- either a symbol of the destruction of Jewish religion and the temple itself, or of the breakdown of the barriers between the presence of God and men.

A symbol of the true ultimate will unify men as individuals and as communities rather than dividing them.

Rather, she realized over time that the central symbol of her religion was a crucified man, a realization we can see form over the course of «Ash Wednesday.»