Sentences with phrase «what symbolic acts»

What symbolic act would be meaningful to you personally as an expression of your faith?

Not exact matches

That white churches would send ministers to Mississippi to stand with the «crazy niggers,» however briefly, affirming to the world the soundness of what they were doing, was a powerful symbolic act.

Was it Jesus» intention to establish a new rite to be observed by his followers, or was he, like the Old Testament prophets, trying to say by symbolic acts what he had been telling the disciples and they had been unable to comprehend?

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

The act is symbolic because such purification is vividly seen as the very partial reflection of what real purification might be.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

(Putting up a pro-PR amendement is primarily a symbolic political act to keep the issue open; the question for all pro-PR forces will then be what to do about the referendum we are going to have, where most long - standing pro-PR groups campaigners think campaigning for a Yes is important.

«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.»

Printup's signature bold and expressive mark making pays homage to what she feels is «symbolic to the act of a beating drum» a display of aggression, energy, and unity.