Sentences with phrase «use symbolic language»

Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem level, and, finally conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations of transcendence.

Did Jesus use symbolic language, places that existed on earth to describe Hell, yes, he most certainly did.

Not exact matches

My positions on all three are probably still best described as revisionary (Le, the use of a «limit - language» approach to the questions of religion and revelation; the use of process categories for understanding the reality of God; and the use of symbolic literary - critical analyses for interpreting Christology).

It is characteristic of language that many different symbolic systems can be used to express roughly the same world of meanings.

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.

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

Book of Mormon people did use ancient symbolic language when describing religiosity, (one of many mountains of evidences that it is an ancient book.)

In practical operation, both use language as if it were a literal description of reality, and only in more reflective moments is this symbolic and interpretive character recognized.

Under such editorship, the church's language would be «cleaned up,» striking all symbolic and mythological uses as pre-literate, primitive, and meaningless.

The debate about the symbolic dimension of expression, about the relation between literal and figurative uses of language, is an academic battleground.

They use highly symbolic and mythological language to describe it, but I don't see any alternative to that.

If Neandertals did have the capacity for symbolic thinking — crucial for using drawings or language to represent ideas and objects — that ability may have developed at least 500,000 years ago in an ancestor shared with humans, the two research teams propose.

Based on a visual symbolic system and child - centered exploration, teachers guide children's discovery and support children's use of the 100 languages of art.

The opportunity to develop additional programming as the result of the Tooker loan allows PAFA to pursue a symposium on a group of artists, including Peter Blume, George Tooker, Ivan Albright, and other Americans who used a realist method to invent their own worlds by transforming the symbolic language of Old Master painting into a contemporary idiom.

Escobar's work, characterized by the use of materials charged with historical and symbolic meaning, is articulated in a minimalist language like in Yellow Composition, a linseed oil drawing, and the wall sculpture.

Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as his use of color, language, and pattern — into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning.

Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as the use of color, language, and pattern — into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning.

Moving between and manipulating various styles — primitivism, cubism, expressionism, minimalism — Prata's encyclopedic use of symbols and patterns grows into a language rooted in the history of visual art; however, in borrowing across time and style, Prata's distortion of form — hieroglyphs in symbolic space — proposes a reflection on how representations are read within a contemporary context.

In this context, the artist uses the pencil as object and also as symbolic container; both as an immediate extension tool of the brain and as a device for creating a dynamic pattern or language.

Using the language of pop art, one of the most relevant comparisons is how both artists have made work to reach a wide and popular audience, creating symbolic visual languages through the use of everyday objects.

He believed that art could convey profound messages without using the complicated visual games of Cubism or the dense symbolic language of Freudian psychoanalysis.»

His work is characterized by the use of materials charged with historic and symbolic meaning, articulated in a language that references minimalism as well as pop art.

Dario Escobar's work is characterized by the use of materials charged with historic and symbolic meaning, articulated in a language that references minimalism as well as pop art.

Fascinated by the pursuit of the beginning of all things and using only four colours (white for purity, black for the origin and the end of all things, red for blood and life, gold for nobility), Li developed a distinctive visual language, which represented the symbolic image of the universe.

The exhibition seeks to demonstrate Scharf's unique vision that makes use of a visual language that includes organic and geometric forms, vibrant color and recurring symbolic imagery alluding to hidden narratives.

They use a symbolic visual language often inspired by their dreams that, as twins, they claim to share.

Jay Forrester's System Dynamics and Howard Odum's Energy Systems are powerful symbolic languages that can be used to model population, energy and resources and to simulate what effect various proposed solutions will have on the world now and in the future.

It identifies ten areas important to school success (the building blocks), divided into three levels: (a) the foundational level includes attention and impulse control, emotion and behavior, self - esteem, and learning environment blocks; (b) the symbolic processing and (c) memory level contains the visual, auditory, and motor skills blocks the conceptual level comprises using strategies and thinking with language and images.