Sentences with phrase «what symbolic meanings»

In addition to the term's literal meaning, discuss what symbolic meanings or associations the title might have in terms of a connection with our place of birth, our ancestors, our heritage, and our personal and cultural histories.

However, since the Kuba people are never again mentioned in the textbook, students never learn why geometric styles were used or what their symbolic meaning to the Kuba might be.

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It should not be described as a «myth,» for despite a proper use of the word which might be permissible, there is a serious danger of a misunderstanding of it since generally its meaning is taken to be a «fairy - tale» — a symbolic account of what may be most dreadfully «un-fact.»

Profound moral traditions have the means to tutor our sensibilities and transform conscience, and they do so in part through what is remembered, in part through what is believed, and in part through symbolic, ritual and textual resources that form the moral imagination.

A lot of preaching consists of sort of giving the symbolic words, the doctrinal utterances, but not conveying what they really mean.

If I can never adequately state the significance of my relationships with those whom I love in this world, or give a neat description of how I can overcome the alienation and estrangement of myself from another, or describe with any fullness what it means to be accepted by another and loved in spite of my deficiencies and my self - centeredness, I can never state in other than symbolic idiom the opening of further human possibilities with the overcoming of human deficiencies in my relationship with God — a relationship that has been broken by my willfulness and sin.

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

Eventually what is diminished and thereby trivialized by the downplaying of this mode is the experience of meaning, for that is usually contributed by the mode of causal efficacy to the mixed mode of symbolic reference.

Rigorous use of biblical criticism prevents psychologizing and allegorizing, insofar as the attempt is made to recover what Jesus actually taught and how the church in fact interpreted his teaching, and only then to inquire into its psycho - social and symbolic meaning, both for Jesus and the church, and for us today.

The kids even ask me sometimes what the words mean as if they're somehow driven to figure out the strange symbolic codes of their fellow human beings.

What is the meaning and purpose of a symbolic vote?

Men and women would declare hidden, often forbidden feelings by way of a bunch of flowers — the symbolic meaning of the blooms spelling out what couldn't be said out loud.3

Decorative and symbolic, these designs are seen frequently A detailed FAQ of what California's new, Orwellian assault weapons re-definition mean your you.

Decorative and symbolic, these designs are seen frequently Bring clarity and insight to the question: «What does my dream mean?»

An indictment of tribalist maxims, a simple and heartfelt portrayal of how we cling to the things that we love most in the dark even after they've long gone, a warning about how the absence of those things can metastasize into hostility at what (or whom) we assume is responsible for their loss - even by association, and of course a thrilling sci - fi blockbuster with kick - ass action scenes enriched by thematic and symbolic meaning.

What this means is that Apple's much publicized victory in its patent war against Samsung is largely symbolic.

What Frank Stella ultimately managed to achieve, what makes him so invaluable to all of art, is the fact he was able to make paintings in which pictorial force came not from symbolic meanings but from the very materiality of the piWhat Frank Stella ultimately managed to achieve, what makes him so invaluable to all of art, is the fact he was able to make paintings in which pictorial force came not from symbolic meanings but from the very materiality of the piwhat makes him so invaluable to all of art, is the fact he was able to make paintings in which pictorial force came not from symbolic meanings but from the very materiality of the piece.

«We can trace this theme throughout the exhibition — a testimony to the power of the use of nontraditional symbolic and conceptual portraiture as a means to reclaim the representation of self and other from inherited formulas that may threaten to suppress rather than express what it means to a unique individual.»

«We can trace this theme throughout the exhibition — a testimony to the power of the use of non-traditional symbolic and conceptual portraiture as a means to reclaim the representation of self and other from inherited formulas that may threaten to suppress rather than express what it means to a unique individual.»

In borrowing Magritte's title, Demand alludes to the earlier artist's revolutionary approach to the meaning of representation, connecting Magritte's Surrealism to what Demand describes as «domesticated nature... potted plants, gardens, theme parks and models of wild growth» — the symbolic representations of nature that can be found in cities around the world.

Presenting an evolution of his long - time preoccupations with symbolic representations of fleeting states — imagery of flickering flames, melting candles, urns and spider webs — Chaos and Wild Again advances Willmont's inquiry into the ephemeral nature of our human condition, particularly by addressing the experience of what it means to live in a digital world.

It is worth thinking about what the decision to cancel marches and protests means in real, as well as symbolic, terms.

In play therapy the symbolic function of play is what is so important, providing children with a means of expressing their inner world.

Ask the client to share what each symbol or word is, and what it's symbolic meaning to them personally.