Sentences with phrase «than a symbol of»

Original righteousness is a vertical relation, and when «the Fall is made an event in history rather than a symbol of an aspect of every historical moment in the life of man, the relation of evil to goodness in that moment is obscured,» he said.31

For those who view this as merely a sign of Christianity - over the years the symbol of a white cross has come to mean much more than a symbol of Christianity.

The letters showed a different woman than the symbol of Christian love and unwavering faith that much of the media portrayed her as.

Darwin doesn't really have anything to do with geology, and he isn't anything more than a symbol of evolutionary theory, either... so it doesn't matter if he was motivated by personal issues.

Katja's decision to not commit suicide is tonally pivotal to the film, as this is the juncture at which she becomes less a character than a symbol of the fury and impotency that white nationalists conjure in their victims.

For Hannes Jaenicke, tough - guy actor and animal welfare campaigner, polar bears are more than a symbol of global warming and shrinking Arctic ice.

Nestled among the colossal skyscrapers, inspirational Statue of Liberty and scenic Central Park of New York, the station built in 1913 has remained more than a symbol of a bygone age before flight became fashionable.

For Still, black was a warm, generative color, rather than a symbol of death, and he often used it in large expanses.

We, too, have then to see how the scholarly book, at least, is no more than a symbol of knowledge worked out, with great care, in some detail.

Not exact matches

Social customer service company Conversocial partnered with New York University on research that found that more than one - third of all tweets to companies were about customer service issues, but that only three percent incorporated the company's Twitter username with the @ symbol.

And it's much easier to do that than to say, «Well listen, we have free markets and we have democracy and both those things are incredibly messy and no one is really controlling it,» but if I give you a few symbols and attach a name to it, all of a sudden you have an evil villain that you can pin the blame on.

For those of you who like to live on the cutting - edge side of the tech world, there's no better status symbol than the smartwatch.

Its high price and lack of IT - friendly ports make it hard to see it as much more than a status symbol, but a good laptop is a good laptop all the same.

The U.S. beauty business, the symbol of P&G's renaissance under Lafley and the source of more than a third of earnings, stagnated.

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

How these symbols are brought together visually reflects my values of real (light and truth), brave (original image that stands out) and fun (a vibrant illustration rather than a corporate look).

Backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the rule, believed the first of its kind nationally, requires restaurants to post a salt shaker encased in a black triangle as a warning symbol next to any menu item with more than 2,300 milligrams (0.08 ounce) of sodium

Velkopopovický: Family of beers from the Czech Republic that has been exported to more than 30 countries, and whose symbol is a goat.

PIMCO Total Return ETF switched ticker symbols from TRXT to BOND on the NYSE Arca in April and has a gross expense ratio of 0.55 %, which is notably cheaper than the 0.85 % charged for the more established PIMCO Total Return A (PTTAX), according to Rosenbluth.

The best known of these companies is Greenlight Capital Re, which has more than $ 2 billion of assets which are managed by David Einhorn and is publicly traded on NASDAQ (symbol — GLRE).

I feel it should stay, even though it is not for all religions or non-religious, it is a symbol of things bigger than Christianity.

Just because there were (likely) more «Christians» than followers of other religions, doesn't give them the right to display any symbol in a more prominent fashion than those of the religions of any other person that died in that event.

«More than a mosque... more than any other symbol it is the Quran that symbolizes the word of God for a Muslim.»

These findings embody more than numbers — they also are a symbol of the American spirit.

These are symbols of celebration and do not need to be tied to anything other than what they represent.

Paul said that without love, no amount of eloquence, wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, faith, charity, or sacrifice can compensate for the fact that we are little more than noisy, clanging symbols.

Their distrust of religious symbols, myths and teleological hypotheses is bound up with a failure to consider the possibility of a primary kind of perception in which beauty, value, significance and purpose constitute ontologically «real» data of experience rather than products of wishful thinking.

Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92 f.)

«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.»

Drawing on the conventions of the classical literature of love and using an existing pan-Indian stock of symbols and figures of speech, the bhakti poets nevertheless strive for spontaneous, direct, personal expression of feeling rather than a rarified cultivation of aesthetic effect and the «emotion recollected», preferred by the Sanskrit poets.

The yellow ribbons of the Iran hostage crisis of more than twenty years ago» too often a symbol of self - pity and maudlin sentimentality» were suddenly displaced by the flag.

The Christian symbols that speak to those realities of negation — cross, apocalyptic, sin, the demonic, the radically incomprehensible, the hidden and revealed God — strike home to me today far more than they ever did before.

It is perhaps best to speak of the symbol rather than the concept of the Kingdom in the New Testament (here I am following the late Norman Perrin's Jesus and the Language of the Kingdom [Fortress, 1976]-RRB-, primarily because a symbol possesses effective power on levels which a concept does not — i.e., those of action or praxis.

Clothes can say as much as, and even more than, a symbol; although of course either can become worn by those with little understanding of what they say, other than «fashionable.»

If not, perhaps better to begin with a religious tradition whose particularities our situation of religious pluralism will make it impossible to ignore than to start with an unexamined set of values somehow supposedly prior to any set of religious symbols.

Rather than engage in the illusion of Exodus, feminist theology had to find a symbol that encouraged women in biblical religions to choose how and where to attack the many - headed dragon of patriarchy.

Medieval art as well dealt in symbols in an era when artists were more concerned with the world of Christian faith than with the world of scientific observation.

He is the Mysterium Tremendum that appears and overthrows; but He is also the mystery of the self - evident, nearer to me than my I. Buber's concepts of symbol, myth and history (of myth) are detailed.

In view of the fact that Parliament more than George III was tyrannizing over the Americans it is remarkable that it was George who became the very symbol and incarnation of the restraint the Americans were overthrowing.

But Premack's findings concerning Sarah's abilities to conserve quantity, to reason analogically and to attribute object qualities to abstract symbols, does establish that primates are capable of more abstraction than Whitehead believed to be the case.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

The inhibition of symbolic reference frees the conceptual element as exemplified in presentational immediacy from its exemplification in causal efficacy and thus frees the symbol to carry meanings other than those conveyed by the immediate past (ME 80; S 6, 83f).

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.

«Executive,» «laborer,» «Catholic,» «Southern Baptist,» «Jew,» «Democrat,» «Republican,» «Socialist,» for example, are proper designations of occupational, religious, or political affiliation, but may under undemocratic pressures become class symbols which divide people into comprehensive separate groups for other than occupational, religious, or political purposes.

If your faith is not stronger than the outward symbols of that faith, then there is something terribly wrong.

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

Metaphor, which serves as a medium that provides insight into Jesus» parabolic language, is a comparison based on everyday objects or experiences.108 In the words of Wilder,»... a true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign, it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers.

Others among the Sufis held fast to shari`a, but understood it in ways which were much wider and more liberal than the interpretation of the orthodox, looking upon the law as either a system of self - discipline or as a set of symbols representing hidden religious meanings.

It seems to me, then, that even though Tillich's theory of symbols dwells on religious uses, and his theological method starts from existential questions, his formal discussion of God is more strongly indebted to idealist philosophy than to either religious experience or the biblical tradition.

In his own wide - ranging and nuanced criticism of both biblical and secular texts, Ricoeur himself moves easily from a close reading of symbols to theoretical reflection, thereby modeling for an entire generation a more conceptually sophisticated way of joining religion and art than had heretofore been practiced.