Sentences with phrase «used mythology»

I used mythology for a while substituting various creatures who were able to make intense gestures without embarrassment.

You can not use mythology to prove a point, you can only use facts and logical deductions therefrom.

(Ibid., p. 127) Ogden is willing to use mythology in both teaching and preaching, although it causes difficulty in communication unless it is understood as myth.

I don't use mythology to mean «fairy tale» as some will take it.

We can use the mythology of the frontier, he writes, «to reify our nostalgia for a falsely idealized past,» or we can use it as a way of «imagining and speaking truth.»

If you use the mythology from this show to try to sound erudite, you're going to sound pretty stupid.

With a synopsis that already reveals how the subtext is rendered in the text itself, Brando uses the mythology of the West to explore the fractured masculinities he made famous during the 1950s.

How does artist Anselm Kiefer use mythology, history, literature, philosophy and science in his work?

Not exact matches

People need to break free of the indoctrination into fantasy land and use logic and reason as their guide, not 2000 (and more) year old mythology.

I used to wonder how people bought into the Bible and the Abrahamic religions, but after watching the spread of the Mormon agenda — and let's be honest, it is an agenda — I realized that people are desparately frightened of living in a world they can't explain without magic, mythology, or voodoo.

The use of mythology does not bother me with either Tolkien or Lewis, but it REALLY does matter to some people.

By this «in - mythologizing,» there is the possibility of penetration into the reality which the ancient cosmology and the mythology used by the biblical writers was attempting to state in language appropriate to their time.

Using ones mind to contemplate mythology as fact only contributes to the scores of mentallly ill folks the world over.

The continued use of the word «God» with all its associations and images from the old world always constitutes a temptation to turn back in the direction of mythology, and that leads to idolatry, which has always been the church's greatest weakness.

It was just to highlight how ridiculous your post was if some other object of mythology was used to replace the one you were using.

Pagan customs and Greek mythology have long been used by so called Christians.

What is more perverse then using human - created mythology to discriminate against a group of people who had no choice in the matter?

i am hindu and i am with you... in our mythology there used to be one demon called BHASMASUR», he was given blessing by GOD that if he puts his pam on someone's head, it will break likewatermelon.

I regard a Christology as modern if it uses every relevant insight of modern knowledge to differentiate the historical element in its interpretation of the event Jesus Christ from the mythological, and remembers that the actual event comprises only history and the ontological reality of God's presence and action within that history — whilst the mythology expresses that reality in ways which may indeed convey deep truth, yet have in themselves the status not of ontological reality but of poetry.

One is reminded of the way in which John Milton so frequently used the terms of classical mythology in his poetry in order to express his Christian faith.

Thus he says: «For the purposes of his «demythologizing» program Bultmann defines mythology as «the use of imagery to express the other worldly in terms of this world and the divine in terms of human life, the other side in terms of this side.

While we can not use the myth of Adam and corporate corruption, we need to go beyond the mythology to recapture its meaning in forms that address the human and indeed, the planetary situation today.

Mythology is the use of imagery to express the other worldly in terms of this world and the divine in terms of human life, the other side in terms of this side.

In this sense he is using the language of mythology.

Perhaps we may put it schematically like this: whereas the older liberals used criticism to eliminate the mythology of the New Testament, our task to - day is to use criticism to interpret it.

I used to believe such things as a devoted Pagan of 2-1/2 decades, until I discovered that Jesus, His death, & His resurrection were historical reality, not mythology.

Thus the speculation and the mythology which grew up around the Logos, or rather the insight into the truth which these represent, is taken up and used by revelation as a vehicle, however inadequate, for the event of revelation.

The Biblical gospel has burst the bonds even of classical mythology, as may be seen from what happened to the idea of the Logos; but it has done so only by first taking that mythology up and using it.

If we tried to use it as such a vehicle would not the Biblical material burst through the very form of the modern mythology?

I have used logic, understanding, and reasoning abilities to see the vast evidence that this is no mere mythology.

Or we can use your method of relying on a book written by bronze age goat herders that claims «magic did it», that is no more reliable that any other book of supersi.tious mythology.

mixing mythology and scripture in Genesis has long been a way the enemy has used to discredit the entire biblical record.

When Jesus, therefore, pictured the finale of the universe in terms of the contemporary mythology, with fire, worms, wailing, and gnashing of teeth for sinners, and bliss for the righteous, he was using an old form of imagination.

We will get over it when you stop using your religion to legislate who people can marry, insisting on teaching your mythology into a science classroom, covering up crimes against children, allow birth control in countries that can't feed themselves in the first place... need more?

No, 1 word, you are a pompous fool who wants to use iron age mythology to deny people civil rights here in the 21st century

It is impossible to use electric lights and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discoveries and at the same time to believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracles («New Testament and Mythology,» Kerygma and Myth [Harper & Row, 1966]-RRB-.

You are using a fiction mythology book to judge and supress the rights of individuals.

If he is right about the book, and he certainly seems to be — and West's response to his review, with its revealing use of the everyone - else - is - compromised mythology and supporting abuse (her conservative critics are «commissars» and «ossified totalitarians,» for example), supports this conclusion — one has to ask why it has so appealed to some conservatives.

Using examples from mythology, Scripture, theology, and philosophy, Rollins shows how mankind has long been interested in speaking of God in these terms, to the point that «instead of thinking about our understanding of God as a poetic utterance arising from an encounter with God, it was thought that our understanding of God directly matched up with the very nature of God.

Rather than view Paul's words as «ancient mythology,» the Christian can use Paul's cosmic language to discuss the considerable «forces» that impinge upon and despoil human community.

LOL at using Ken Wilber to resurrect your dying mythology.

Using «Christian mythology» to explain what should have a more rational discussion is simply backwards.

«mythology» is an interesting word... people often use the word «myth» to refer to something that is false.

Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.

Also, McCain - ites who want to embrace this result should note that it is based on the same kind of measures of ideology (DW - Nominate scores) that have been used to show that Barack Obama, contra the National Journal and Republican mythology, is not (for better or worse) the most liberal Senator by a significant stretch.

It's great for self - help gurus, spiritual evangelists, salespeople, and multilevel marketers because it's based in the same kinds of mythology on which they've always relied: There's a timeless principle, a preexisting law of nature only now becoming understood by science but completely easy for you to use to make your life better.

Greek mythology featured a labyrinth prison so complex that no one could find a way out until wily Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, slipped a ball of string to her lover Theseus, who unwound the thread behind him and later used it to retrace a route toward escape.

He says he will wait until he has completed his search so he can propose names that fit together — and chime with the Greek mythology of the underworld theme used so far.

The Angel Exit Theatre company will bring the endocrine system to life at the Green Man Festival in August using Greek mythology in an event called Hormone Harmony.

in August using Greek mythology in an event called Hormone Harmony.