Sentences with phrase «taken bodily form»

One of the three high gods, Vishnu, is believed of his free choice on occasion to have taken bodily form as an animal or as a human being,

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The Arians said there could be only one God, the creator of all things, and that it demeaned God to suppose that God could take on finite, bodily form.

This is evident from the fact that when the hope of life after death emerged, it took the form of bodily resurrection.

It is a strange story, surely not meant to be taken as a literal record of an actual encounter with Satan in bodily form.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

Instead of our seeing expression as an external sign of subjective states or intentions, it becomes the natural bodily form that my activities take.

Humans also take on a different bodily form in order to fight their enemies in Avatar.

Her «smart, affecting, weird - form dances never take for granted the bodily habits or functional protocols of modern choreography and its users.»

Works offer an array of perspectives about how we look at others, how we look at ourselves, how we take in and interpret bodily forms, and what we deduce from those encounters.

Taking the forehead as their origin these bodily manifestations of thinking are formed through a material process in which intuition, incoherence and non-knowledge resist the structures of authority in art production.

This deeply personal narrative style, which touches on bodily experience, takes another form in Voigt's most recent work, März (2016), in which her physical form is the raw subject matter.

Kim Brandt's smart, affecting, weird - form dances never take for granted the bodily habits or functional protocols of modern choreography and its users.

(a) shall, subject to subsection (2), in the case of a primary designated offence, make an order in Form 5.03 authorizing the taking, from that person, for the purpose of forensic DNA analysis, of any number of samples of one or more bodily substances that is reasonably required for that purpose, by means of the investigative procedures described in subsection 487.06 (1).

This pressure might take the form of threats of bodily harm, or of exposure of information that the threatened person wants to keep secret, etcetera.