Sentences with phrase «which symbolic expression»

Among these modern beliefs is the suspicious attitude in which symbolic expression is now held by philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, and theology.

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However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

Another background conviction has been that there is no one underlying pre-conceptual (in the quasi-technical sense of «concept» we sketched in chapter 6) religious experience of which differing construals of the Christian thing are simply alternative «symbolic expressions» or «thematizations.»

Proust's world was preponderantly made up of subjective emotions and objective observations, whereas Dostoievsky and Blake first participated fully in what they experienced and only later attained the distance which enabled them to enter into an artistic relationship with it and give it symbolic and artistic expression.

In the end this symbolic expression can have just so much meaning for us as we can give it through specifying that in our experience which bears it out.

We saw earlier that symbolic expressions may be regarded as a primary means by which the members of a religious communion are united.

All of this becomes «myth» or symbolic expression by which we can interpret the realities at our human situation.

The cross is commemorated not in separation from the rest of Christ's life and work but as the final symbolic expression of a total self - giving to God, in which through prayer and thanksgiving Christians are enabled to share.

More significant today than the church's activity in connection with the ecclesiastical arts is the deeper motivation which is revolutionizing the church's whole attitude to symbolic expression.

Once we see through the logical mistakes that underlie the cosmology on which the theory of projection has parasitically fed, we can begin to locate in a fresh way just where the symbolic expression of religion fits into the structure of the evolving universe and how the language of religion relates to that of science.

Thus we can not treat artistic expression as the choice of an external symbolic form to reflect feelings which are simply given.

It is these narrative traditions that provide the material for the symbolic and mythic expressions through which we as individuals come face to face with mystery.

Even myths about the elements of nature (sun and moon, summer and winter, etc.) are symbolic expressions of man's unconscious psychic life in which the eternal archetypes are encountered.30

Introducing the report, MAP President Baroness Morris of Bolton highlighted the importance of Palestinian statehood recognition, supported by UK Parliament in a symbolic vote in October 2014: «Recognition will bolster those Palestinians who believe that the path of non-violence will lead to a state coming into being through diplomacy and democratic expression, not destruction, a state which lives side - by - side with Israel in peace and prosperity.»