Sentences with phrase «understood as an allegory»

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But very few Christians understand that the Gospels were originally intended as allegory, not biography.)

If we didn't have the tools to understand the cosmos, would Chad or other christians insist that the Genesis account was just a model or allegory, or would they be screaming just as loudly that Genesis was absolutely correct - and they knew that by faith and trust in god's word?

I don't have a problem with you reading Genesis as an allegory, but I hope you can see that there is resonant meaning here beyond your limited understanding.

But it also recalls Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and the understanding that what makes us human is as much our behavior — and our thoughts — as it is our anatomy.

As well, through a messiah - like allegory, they come to understand and appreciate the power of love and sacrifice.

Taken as an allegory for a powerful man who doesn't entirely understand the scope of his power and its consequences, the picture's disregard for coherence and narrative linearity make some sense as well.

Naturally, the temptation is strong to interpret this story as an allegory for the rise of fascism, but I don't believe there is any easy key to understand it.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

As in the allegory, a «global average» temperature obscures critical dynamics that are best understood by examining local causes of «regional climate» change.