Sentences with phrase «through symbolic»

Emotionally significant experiences can be expressed more comfortably and safely through the symbolic representation the toys provide.

Once he gains awareness of let's say, his anger, in the playroom, and expresses it through symbolic play, it gets processed and its intensity fades, and over a few sessions that anger becomes only a memory and slips into the past, where it no longer causes outbursts or aggression.

Eileen Quinlan's most recent solo exhibition, Mind Craft, at Miguel Abreu's Orchard and Eldridge Street locations, continues the artist's interest in the regime of the image through a symbolic representation of the screen.

Segal's prime interest was in capturing simultaneously individual and universal aspects of the human psyche through symbolic tableaux.

On January 18, 2014, through a symbolic letter to his Mother published online, Binyavanga pronounced that he is gay.

His works have been described as wavering between the primordial and the rational as well as the sacred and the secular, communicating through the symbolic language of myths.

From Hiz Hands explores the dissemination of Western notions of an exotic Africa through the symbolic economy of «African» masks sold on Canal Street and on the streets outside museums in New York (the Whitney and Metropolitan, for example), and their contrasting relationship to the masks on display in the museums.

Through symbolic gestures and imagery Biggers creates an experience that highlights often overlooked cultural and political narratives in American History.

Appropriate work for young learners includes: materials and manipulation, verbal interaction with other students and teachers (including the support of vocabulary), opportunities for students to exercise choice and self - initiation and opportunities to represent experiences through symbolic means (kid - writing / drawing, scribing of students» language, class graph, photos / pictures, and graphic organizers).

The most hackneyed standbys of coming - to - America humor — the discovery of pizza, confusion about relationships and religions — get trotted out, and the selfish J.B. has to repeatedly redeem himself (to Ash, Rinku, Dinesh, and Brenda, the generic love interest played by Bell) through symbolic gestures.

There is something wonderfully nostalgic, poignantly fleeting when returning to your childhood through some symbolic goods or products like music that reminded you of a summer after your freshmen year of high school or a...

The manner in which religious consciousness expresses its intimation of such an ultimate context of meaning is primarily through symbolic and mythic modes of thought and language which differ from culture to culture.

Healthy religion, through its symbolic rites, myths, and beliefs, helps the individual keep in contact with his unconscious.

Monks, while holding hands, would chant and sing, moving through a symbolic «maze of life» in the monastery or sanctuary.

Esthetic truth is another kind of revelation of what is so, through symbolic forms other than those of literal fact.

In this procedure there is the same decentering, even «dispossession,» of reflective immediacy we have previously observed: a demand that we must make a «detour» through the symbolic world.

Unacceptable impulses are transformed through symbolic, ritual practices into socially constructive feelings and motivation.

Thus, the region of outer space decorated with grey sense - data in presentational immediacy becomes through symbolic reference the wall to which we refer in ordinary discourse, with its solid presence and causal powers.

They decisively represent God's general activity through symbolic words and deeds.

This does not mean outright rejection; it has to do with the attempt to penetrate through the symbolic (and mythological) language which religion inevitably uses to the basic reality that is there being affirmed.

No system of ritual uniquely and exclusively qualifies as a vehicle for affirming devotion through symbolic acts.

In this respect John Paul II is most effective as a teacher through his symbolic acts and liturgies and least effective when he explicitly sets out to teach.

Profound moral traditions have the means to tutor our sensibilities and transform conscience, and they do so in part through what is remembered, in part through what is believed, and in part through symbolic, ritual and textual resources that form the moral imagination.

Man is uniquely the creature of meaning, and thus is «able to grasp the logos of reality as such and to represent it through symbolic speech and action.

Jesus was able to «grasp the logos of reality as such and to re-present it through symbolic speech and action,» and this in a normative fashion.

Probably because of the abuses associated with this scheme, a notion developed in the Aranyaka period which explained that the cosmic power might also be known through symbolic meditation upon sacrificial procedure (1:1.35).

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You then imagine yourself walking through this space and finding symbolic objects that help you remember what you need to say.

[There's something] symbolic about walking through a man's world in a man's pair of pants that makes you feel uncomfortable.»

Australia has a «perfect right» to sail naval assets through the South China Sea and a recent robust exchange in the disputed waters is symbolic of that fact, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.

The analysis of an historical event in terms of its plot forms and related symbolic transformations eventually leads back to the final phase of synoptic resolution, illustrated by a hierarchy of contrasting elements, through which the event was initially defined.

It is a good rule that in trying to understand the Bible one should not have recourse to a figurative or allegorical explanation of any passage (outside those poetical and prophetical compositions which obviously have a symbolic intention) without first settling conclusions with the straightforward meaning, even if it seems offensive; for the offence may set up that tension in the mind through which we often reach the truth.

Martin criticizes Hartshorne's methodology through a rigorous use of Symbolic Logic.

When God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, it was not just to see if Abraham was faithful enough to follow his commandment, it was also symbolic of the sacrifice God himself would make in sacrifice his beloved and begotten son, but unlike Abraham who was spared at the last moment from carrying through with the sacrifice of his son, God the father actually carried through with the sacrifice and although it wasn't permanent it still did not mean that there was no anguish, it doesn't matter how brief it was, if it was enough for divine and eternal beings to have to go through such heartache, all of which for our lowly sakes, in my view that is quite significant and I believe that such suffering is actually beyond mine or anyone else's comprehension.

The need for an opportunity to periodically renew basic trust is satisfied by religious groups through corporate worship, symbolic practices, sacraments, and festivals.

Moreover, for the ministers of the Reformed churches «preaching» was a symbolic word; it meant not only public discourse but every action through which the gospel was brought home and men were moved to repent before God and to trust in him.

by Franz Rosenzweig and Ludwig Strauss [Berlin: Lambert Schneider Verlag, 1928], p. 65 f.) This statement is symbolic of the way in which he has consistently answered this question: good can be maximized not through the rejection or conquest of evil but only through the transformation of evil, the use of its energy and passion in the service of the good.

We properly interpret that internal and mental impression of the line to refer to parts of the external and physical world of the room through a process Whitehead names symbolic reference.

The directness of the relationship is established not only through the mediation of the senses, e.g. the concrete meeting of real living persons, but also through the mediation of the «word,» i.e. the mediation of those technical means and those fields of symbolic communication, such as language, music, art, and ritual, which enable men ever again to enter into relation with that which is over against them.

Persons whose symbolic universes emphasized the role of supernatural forces tended not to believe that society could be reformed through human action and refrained from experimenting personally with alternative lifestyles.

The primary function of most teachers should be to stimulate and channel the students» dedication to make use of the abundant resources available through modern techniques of symbolic reproduction and distribution.

In the end this symbolic expression can have just so much meaning for us as we can give it through specifying that in our experience which bears it out.

With this in mind, many have said that the anointing here in James 5 is therefore symbolic of the Holy Spirit at work in the individual through the prayer of faith to heal the sick person.

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

Error comes in through the interplay of the modes in symbolic reference.

Rather, it is a projection by a percipient subject onto a (fictitious) contemporaneous spatiotemporal manifold of certain highly refined and analyzed features of entities directly (but more vaguely and dimly) encountered in the percipient's immediate past through the mode of causal efficacy.8 The important distinction between true perception — what we might now in Rortyan jargon call nonmentalistic «unanalyzed raw feels» — and this second - order symbolic projection of select percepta characteristic only of higher - order conscious organisms is somewhat blurred by terming both equally «modes of perception.»

McFague argues that images (whether symbolic / analogical or parabolic / metaphorical) need interpretation through concepts and theories, but interpretation never exhausts the meaning of images.

The cross is commemorated not in separation from the rest of Christ's life and work but as the final symbolic expression of a total self - giving to God, in which through prayer and thanksgiving Christians are enabled to share.

Hopewell had pursued his fascination with the congregation through a yearlong examination of a local United Methodist and a local Baptist congregation, and arrived in Indiana that fall with a presentation woven of insights about the two churches drawn from fields as diverse as history, economics, statistics and sociology, with particular emphasis on literary analysis, symbolic language, anthropology and mythology.

We as humans all have our time - limit on earth, but the 9 - 11 was symbolic that secular USA's crumbling and a new era for Muslims to gain freedom and human rights through her.

And the totem becomes a symbolic medium through which mystery is disclosed, though perhaps not in the sense of the radical other - ness that we discern in the axial and post-axial religious traditions.