Sentences with phrase «took symbolic form»

The essence of the New Testament lay in the religious life it portrayed; its high - watermark was the experience of mystical union with Christ, in whom God took symbolic form.

Not exact matches

Together, these forms of experience take the form of «symbolic reference» (PR 168 ff).

Some say the 1 Peter 3 passage should not be taken literally — that it is symbolic, conveying in graphic form the idea that redemption is universal in its extent.

Eventually, however, the puzzle pieces have to start forming a recognizable image — there's even a baldly expository / symbolic scene that illustrates this using actual puzzle pieces — and The Captive's endgame is simultaneously so silly and muddled that it's impossible to take seriously, even though Egoyan is clearly struggling to make some sort of grand statement.

«Because we believe it is necessary periodically to take the pulse of painting, we propose in this issue to use diverse forms of criticism to examine what one can see this month in New York City,» guest art editor Vincent Katz writes in his introduction, «We are using painting here not exclusively but rather inclusively, as symbolic of the creative act.»

Nicole Cherubini's sculptures are themselves gorgeous profusions, which take a functional and symbolic form (a common box) and render a new reading of the crushed cardboard box.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

Often taking the form of landscapes, the Canadian - born, Newcastle, England - based artist's presentations - containing combinations of real and constructed imagery - are symbolic of the multiple realities we perceive when we engage contemporary media culture.

The artist has always been fascinated by the symbolic and metaphoric aspect of water and it's ability to take on any form and color, to change it's state from liquid to solid, and yet remain water.

For example, in a survey of parents who are targets of alienation, Baker and Darnell4 found that targeted parents reported that alienators interfered with parenting time (e.g., scheduled appointments or frequently called during the other parent's parenting time), interfered with contact with the children (e.g., intercepted phone messages or email), interfered with symbolic contact like gift giving (e.g., threw away gifts or sent them back), did not inform them about important information (e.g., school activities, doctor appointments), threatened to take children away from the them, and formed unhealthy alliances with the children such as having had their children spy and report back information to the alienating parent, or sending cell phones with children to call the alienating parent from the target parent's home.