Sentences with phrase «use of metaphors not»

Not exact matches

(We do not have in our language a comparative for the adjective «past» — something like «paster» — thus our language again has to use a metaphor of spatial distance: «more remote in the past.»)

Jesus used the mustard seed as a metaphor but did not actually refer to it as the smallest of seeds.

When Noll speaks of Equiano's «immersion» in Scripture, he is not using that metaphor casually, as an extract from the Narrative makes clear with its «fusillade of scriptural quotations and allusions.»

(I apologize to those that dislike metaphors, but I almost can't communicate if I don't get to use them, and as insufficient as they at times are, they are very close to the language of what I believe, because you can't really explain or define someone into believing... you can only live out your beliefs in a way that you share with others, and when given the opportunity shine a light, or point a direction, or walk along with someone for a bit).

And because in its origin the word had meant not simply man's breathing but God's wind, it became the verbal agent by which man could say that his best life is inbreathed by God — inspired, as we say, using the same metaphor Latinized — so that ruach at last meant the Spirit of God inspiring the spirit of man.

Without the use of personal, agential metaphors, however, including among others God as mother, father, healer, lover, friend, judge, and liberator, the metaphor of the world as God's body would be pantheistic, for the body would be all there were.25 Nonetheless, the model is most precisely designated as panentheistic; that is, it is a view of the God - world relationship in which all things have their origins in God and nothing exists outside God, though this does not mean that God is reduced to these things.26

I try to use the fruits of the spirit metaphor — and if the fruit is dry or maggoty, that's not a good sign.

He does not «go to heaven» or to anywhere else other than the metaphorical abode of the dead, being the rhetorical device used to describe death under the departure metaphor.

It is important therefore not to regard Augustine's use of the term city as mere metaphor.

This is going to be a shock — the men who actually wrote all the parts in the Bible and made changes to the infrastructure of Christianity — including Constantine circa 300 AD in Rome — were not afraid of unleashing the occasional metaphor... in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!!!

We can not even talk about this aspect of ministry without using the metaphor of shepherd or pastor.

For those Christians who recognize that Jesus frequently used parables and metaphor, and therefore consider that at least some other parts of the bible are meant as parables or metaphorically as well, it's not necessarily a matter of picking and choosing.

This does not hinder our use of the term «action» in metaphor.

The Pythagorean traditions of four kinds of harmony: musical harmony the root metaphor «Harmony» is a word now used only in metaphorical senses.1 In the long and complicated history of this word, which we can not here trace, the literal sense has been forgotten.

Rather, it is a model, which does not derive from images and reality.107 As part of language, metaphor is not only used in a textual context, but also in an oral context, providing a social context for both.

Even though the Bible does not call itself the Word of God, it is a legitimate metaphor for us to use, provided it is rightly understood.

To appeal to the Quine's metaphor from his famous essay «Two Dogmas of Empiricism» (TDE 42 - 46), if the synthetic and the analytic are not dichotomous, but rather the respective periphery and center of a web of knowledge and beliefs, then our casual use of the word mass lies at the periphery, while our technical meaning lies near the center.

In this, Farrow is obviously not using «God» as a generic metaphor for «the Ultimate» but is speaking of a personal Creator who is to be «enjoyed» and through whom enjoyment of others is possible.

Yes the Greek word of course means literal bread, but the greek semantics don't preclude its use in metaphors.

Not to use a common, coarse English metaphor, but it's the only one I can think of at the moment.

And this is important: Peter and Paul's use of metaphor (the husband is like Christ, the wife is like the Church, suffering slaves are like the suffering Christ) is not meant to universalize or glorify the household codes themselves but rather the * attitudes * of those functioning within the hierarchal systems of the day.

In a word, I think most people (except, perhaps, we academics) will understand that our use of physical metaphors in moral discourse does not imply that physical health is morally normative.

They also contain a great deal of confession, so that Paul «not only uses himself, but he thinks in and through himself: he takes himself as a human metaphor.»

To use the metaphor of body to speak of God is not to describe God, but it is a way of thinking about God on the basis of something very important to us, our bodies.

It is important here to note that Peter and Paul's use of metaphor (the husband is like Christ; the wife is like the Church; suffering slaves are like the suffering Christ) is not meant to universalize or glorify the hierarchy within the household codes themselves but rather to instruct those within the system to imitate the attitude and posture of Jesus Christ.

Hence the role of metaphor in explanation depends not only upon analogy, but also upon the more detailed specification of the presupposed environment brought about in the stretching of meaning by the metaphorical use of language.

Stage Two: Atheists use a lot of metaphors and similes and analogies, and I don't understand those either, so it is their fault.

The pure science of the theory NEVER says to «imagine» anything, though many scientists speaking to a public not as well versed in science do use metaphor, analogy, and imagined scenarios to help people grasp the concept.

Hence the use of metaphors and allegories in the Bible based in the time period they were created to proclaim a message, not a fact.

«One must be careful not to say that the author of the epistle is using «metaphors» when he applies the title of high priest to Christ and the name of «sacrifice» to his

So if this person is just using «starvation» and «death» as metaphors, and they aren't actually experiencing the horrors of starving or dying like the kids in Somalia, then its pretty selfish to describe their life as if they were being punished.

I don't see anything wrong with the cartoon — to me it says something about Christian interpretation of the bible — in colors of greens and reds when it was using blues and whiites (metaphor).

I guess that's why if a writer doesn't use plenty of imagery and visual metaphors then I can hardly make it through their work.

Still, it is not easy as an American to know how far we may go before we damage the pluralism that is essential to the special nature of this society, where, to use Richard Neuhaus» metaphor, we are to draw the outer boundaries, and how we are to furnish our presently desperately naked square.

Part Two of a six - part series Structure isn't sexy, but to talk about the online tools of 2008 without discussing the framework that governed their use brings to mind a certain metaphor about forests and trees.

Out of left wing, a Plaid Cymru MP says Harman was brave to say the Iraq war was a mistake, and tries to use it as a metaphor for government failure to not impose more market regulation before the current crisis hit.

Constant World War Two metaphors were used and even where they weren't, the language was so aggressive and self - interested that it hardened the backs of anyone tempted to give Britain a better deal.

This sort of talk about immigrants has become more and more acceptable, but we would do well to remind ourselves that it is not acceptable to use animal or geographic metaphors about immigrants.

And although we use these metaphors of concrete things to stand for abstract concepts, that doesn't keep us from putting a different twist on those same metaphors of the concrete and using them to describe other and quite different abstract concepts.

To clarify, Buck used the metaphor of a speeding ticket, noting that a person can not be punished for speeding yesterday if a traffic sign was only placed on the street today.

Córdova doesn't like the pipeline metaphor often used to describe the flow of women and minorities into and through science.

While sophisticated technologies like this might let us see nature, observe the stars, and even watch the news more clearly, we mustn't let them deprive us of the icons and metaphors we use to describe the things in our lives that are less tangible and more allegorical, less a reality and more a model.

From the psychology and neuroscience around play, creativity, dreaming and sleep, we can as easily derive a picture of human cognition that doesn't recoil from the buzzing, blooming demands of everyday life, but exults in using imagination, stories, abstraction and metaphor to comprehend the world.

To help students understand these, the programme uses the metaphor of «parrots of perception,» which represent common negative thoughts or ways that our mind convinces us of things that are not really true.

Others used the metaphor of a scientific fishing expedition in which the scientists weren't sure they had either bait or fish.

We use the mat as a metaphor to understand what holds us back so that we can eliminate all that is not effective in the unfoldment of our own unique evolutionary process.

We can be rest assured that conveying interest in a person doesn't require any language and to convey that interest all kinds of signs and metaphors could be used to draw the attention.

The producers used to refer to the series as «a novel», and she makes the brilliant point that: «Not only does The Wire demonstrate the ingenuity of dealers and detectives as they elude each other, but surveillance itself becomes the show's metaphor for what drama does in listening in on the world.»

It's not at all surprising to hear it often suggested that the entire film is a metaphor for various sorts of drug use.

Directors have been using Léaud as a walking metaphor for mortality and for film history for several years: they have used him not for novelty casting as such, but to represent an idea of damaged glory or to play a kind of phantom, both of himself and of a certain ideal of cinema.